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Apostles' Creed
Nicene Creed
I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead.
On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.
Amen.
I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made.
Who, for us men for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.
I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of Life; who proceedeth from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spake by the prophets.
I believe one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.
Amen.
1. The Bible
We believe in the verbal plenary inspiration of the written Word of God; that the 66 books which make up the Old Testament and the New Testament are completely and exclusively inspired by the Holy Spirit. They are infallible, inerrant, and divinely authoritative for all matters of life and doctrine. We do not accept any doctrine or experience that contradicts it. We believe that the Bible is completely relevant today for every area of the human experience because it is living and active; that the Bible is the exclusive and only authority for faith and lifestyle; and that the original autographs are without error. It is to be believed, practiced, trusted, and hoped in (1 Cor. 2:13; 2 Tim. 3:16; Heb. 4:12; 2 Pet. 1:21, Ps. 19:17, Jn. 10:35).
2. The Triune God
We believe that there is One true God, the eternally self- existing “I AM”, who has revealed himself to us in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We believe that the persons of the Trinity are co-eternal, co-equal, and yet with unique function. God is personal, invisible, infinite, immutable, perfect, holy, good, just, faithful, loving, wise, omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent. God is transcendent; seated in heavenly places on His throne of glory, yet present and dwelling in the one who seeks Him (Ex. 3:14; Deut. 6:4; Isa. 43:10, 11; Mt. 28; Jn. 8:58; 2 Cor. 13:14, Jn 4:24, Col 1:15, Ps 102:27, Ps 100:5, 1 Jn. 4:16, Rom. 16:27, Ps 139:5-10, Rev 4:8).
3. Jesus
We believe Jesus Christ is the Eternal Word of God and the Second Person of the Trinity. He is a distinct person from the Father and the Holy Spirit, yet of the same substance. He is two natures in One person (divine and human); fully God and fully man. Jesus Christ is God of God, the Son of God, who was incarnated as a human, born of a virgin, crucified, buried, was resurrected, and is seated at the right hand of God on high. In Him, the Messianic prophecies of the Old testament were fulfilled; All those who believe in Him and His sacrifice have their lives redeemed and are restored to the fellowship with God that had been lost through man's transgression (Mt. 1:18-25; Mk. 16:19; Jn. 1:1, 14; 3:16; 20:1-2; 1 Cor. 15:3-5; Heb. 2:17; Gal. 4:4 Phil. 2:8; 1 Pet. 3:22, Rom. 3:24-25).
4. The Holy Spirit
We believe the Holy Spirit is the Third Person of the Trinity. He is a distinct person from the Father and the Son, God of God, sent by the Father to equip the Body of Christ with grace for work. In all he does, he glorifies Christ. He convicts the world of sin, regenerates sinners, and in him they are baptized into union with Christ and adopted into the family of God. The Holy Spirit is received at salvation, and assists us in our weaknesses by enabling us to live victorious, bold, Christlike lives. We believe the Holy Spirit fills and enables believers to the actual exercise of all biblical gifts of the Holy Spirit and brings about the fruit of the Holy Spirit. We believe in an additional Baptism of the Holy Spirit with new tongues as an accompanying evidence; that the gifts are available to all believers but not essential for salvation; and that believers should desire the gifts. (Jn. 14:16-26; Rom. 8:9, 26; Eph. 4:30; 1 Cor. 12:7-11; Heb. 10:29; Gal. 5:22-23; Acts 8:15-17, 19:1-6, 2:38-39).
5. Sin & the Fall of Humanity
We believe God created humankind in His image and likeness for relationship with Himself and for governance and multiplication throughout the earth. Through Satan’s temptation, Adam and Eve transgressed God’s command and fell from grace. Sin is willful transgression of the law of God and deserves death. At the fall, humankind incurred physical death and spiritual death, which is separation from God. All human beings are in union with Adam and are sinners by nature and by choice. Sin has alienated humankind from God and subjected it to his wrath (Gen. 1:26, 3, 27; 2:17; 3:6; Rom. 5:12-19;).
6. Salvation
We believe fallen humankind’s hope of redemption is only possible through the shed blood of Jesus Christ and His work on the cross. The redemption offered to humankind through the work of Christ must be received by repentance toward God and faith in Christ who shed His blood. Those who receive God’s offer of grace by faith are born again, justified, regenerated, adopted into the family of God, made heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ, filled with the Holy Spirit, and are partakers of eternal life to come (Jn 3:3; Acts 4:12; Eph. 1:7; Rom. 5:10; 8:14-17; 10:9-10; Ti. 3:5-6).
7. The Church
We believe in a holy, universal, militant, triumphant, supra-denominational Church which makes up the Body of Jesus Christ, who is its Head. The Church is made up of all those who have been justified by God’s grace through faith alone in Christ alone; it is being built up as the Bride of Christ, to be fully matured and presentable at Jesus’ Second Coming. We believe in the sacraments of The Lord’s Supper and Baptism as holy ordinances from Jesus Christ and ordinary means of grace. The Lord’s Supper is a tangible testament and encounter with our communion with Christ as mediated by the Holy Spirit, where the grace to live the Christian life is superabundantly dispensed. Baptism is by full immersion and performed after confessing Jesus Christ as Lord; it should be in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; after the act of believing and in full conscience and reason (Mt. 16:18; 1 Cor. 12:13; Rom. 5:1, 5; Eph. 1:22-23; 4:11-17; 5:27; Rev. 2-3).
8. Christ's Return & Things to Come
We believe in the personal and bodily return of the Lord Jesus Christ. He will return in glory and authority at an unknown time to renew the earth and reign as King forever. At the moment of His coming, we will be caught up in the air, transformed in glory, and brought back to earth. Christ will sit in judgment, separating the wheat from the chaff. Jesus will bring about the final defeat of Satan and his works. For those that believe, God is creating a New Heavens and a New Earth where humans will dwell with God forever. There will be perfect righteousness and Jesus will be worshiped eternally. We believe the Kingdom was inaugurated on earth in the ministry of Jesus Christ and continues to be established in the ministry of the Holy Spirit through the Church. (Isa. 65:17; Mt. 24:30; Acts 1:11; 1 Cor. 15:50-54; 1 Thess. 4:13-17; Rev. 19:11-22:21, Mk. 1:15, 2 Cor. 3:8; Jn 3.22-23; I Cor 10:16-17)
9. Eternal Conscious Punishment
We believe those who reject God’s offer of grace and forgiveness will not be found in the Book of Life, and will be thrown into the lake of fire, to be given over to eternal conscious punishment; they will be judged in the resurrection of the wicked and receive due punishment, consciously, along with the devil and his minions for all eternity (Mt. 25:46; Mk. 9:43-48; Rev. 19:20; 20:11- 15; 21:8).
We believe God has ordained marriage and defined it as a covenant relationship between one man, one woman, and himself. As a result, we only recognize marriage between a biological man and a biological woman. We believe that from the beginning God created two separate and distinct biological sexes: male and female. Scripture does not permit any difference between biological sex and gender identity or expression. Humankind has been created by God and any attempt to misconstrue His creation is an attempt to self-create and is a result of sin and the fall. We also acknowledge that there are rare instances where people are born with an indiscriminate biological sex; these cases do not involve an attempt to self-create nor deny the dignity of how they were born (Gen. 2:24; Mt. 19:4; Eph. 5:25; 1 Pet. 3:7; Gen. 1:26-27; Mt. 19:4; Mk 10:6-7; Ps. 139:14).
10. Marriage & Gender
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