The application process will ask you to agree
with our statement of faith as follows:

• We believe the Bible to be the inspired and only infallible, authoritative, written word of God. 

• We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 

• We believe that the universe originated by the creative act of God as revealed in Holy Scripture, and that the form of every kind of life was fixed at the time of its creation.

• We believe in the true deity and true humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ, His preexistence, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His future visible return in power and glory.

• We believe that man was created good and upright; for God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”  However, man, by voluntarily transgressing, fell and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death, which is separation from God. 

• We believe that man’s only hope of redemption is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ.   The inward evidence of salvation is the direct witness of the Spirit.  The outward evidence includes, not only a life of righteousness and holiness, but a life of service to others as well.

• The Conditions of Salvation are repentance from God and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ.  By the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, being justified by grace through faith, man becomes an heir of God, according to the hope of eternal life. 

• We believe that a divinely-called and scripturally-ordained ministry has been provided by our Lord for a two-fold purpose: for the evangelization of the world and the edifying of the Body of Christ.  We believe in the fulfilling of the Great Commission is an obligation of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.

• We believe in the resurrection of those who have fallen asleep in Christ and those who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord.  We believe that the second coming of Christ includes the rapture of the saints, followed by the visible return of Christ and His saints to reign on the earth for one thousand years.

• We believe that there will be a final judgment in which the wicked dead will be raised and judged according to their works.  Whoever is not found written in the Book of Life will be consigned to everlasting punishment.