The Bible
The 66 books of the Old and New Testaments are the Word of God. They are supernaturally inspired, inerrant in the original manuscripts, preserved by God in verbal and plenary inspiration, and the divinely authoritative standard for every age and life.
The one God
The one God exists eternally in three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God is the absolute creator and sustainer of the universe. Creation was accomplished by His spoken word and not through an evolutionary process.
Humanity and sin
Humanity was created without sin and in God's image. Through Adam's disobedience, sin entered the human race. Every person is born with a sinful nature, stands under God's condemnation, and cannot save himself. In sovereign love, God sent Christ to save sinners.
Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ in the flesh was fully God and fully man. Born of a virgin, He lived without sin, taught, and performed the works recorded in the Gospels. He was crucified as payment for our sins, rose bodily on the third day, ascended to the Father's right hand, leads His church, and intercedes for believers.
Christ's return and atonement
Jesus will return personally, bodily, and visibly to establish His millennial kingdom. Through His shed blood, He made perfect atonement for sin and became our substitute. Salvation rests on the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Salvation
Salvation includes forgiveness of sins, a new nature, and the sure hope of eternal life. It is received entirely apart from good works, water baptism, church membership, or other human effort. Salvation is pure grace.
The true believer
The true believer is a joint-heir with Christ and is assured of salvation. Sin may interrupt the joy of fellowship with God and bring the loving discipline of our heavenly Father, but it does not undo that salvation.
The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is fully God and indwells every believer. He baptizes and seals each believer at salvation and fills the believer in response to confession and yieldedness. Christian obedience glorifies God, and spiritual maturity grows through God's Word and the indwelling Spirit.
The Church
The Church of Jesus Christ is composed of God's redeemed people and is Christ's body, of which He is the head. Local assemblies exist to glorify God through worship, fellowship, love, discipline, service, and instruction in God's Word.
Death, resurrection, and eternity
At death, the spirit of each true believer departs to be consciously with Christ. The unbeliever awaits judgment. Both believers and unbelievers will be bodily raised: believers to dwell forever in Christ's presence, and unbelievers to face God's judgment and eternal punishment.