Regions In Need

God 

We believe there is only one true and living God, who is infinite in being, power, and perfections. God is eternal, independent, and self-sufficient, having life in himself with no need for anyone or anything. He is spirit, transcendent and invisible, with no limitations or imperfections, immutable, and everywhere present with the fullness of his being. His knowledge is exhaustive, including all things actual and possible, so that nothing—past, present, or future—is hidden from his sight. God is not divided into parts, but his whole being includes all of his attributes. God is entirely holy, loving, wise, just, good, merciful, gracious, and truthful. Our God is the infinite fountain of being who created all things, and all things exist by him and for him. He is supremely powerful to perform all his holy and perfect will, ruling over his creation with total dominion, righteousness, wisdom, and love. In his transcendence, God is incomprehensible in his being and actions, yet he reveals himself such that we can know him truly and personally.

tHe Trinity

The one true God eternally exists as three persons— Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—infinitely excellent and all-glorious. Each person is fully God, sharing the same deity, attributes, and essential nature, yet there is but one God. Each person is distinct, yet God is not by this distinction divided into three parts, natures, or gods. The Father has always existed as Father, the unbegotten fountain of all life. The Son has always existed as Son, eternally begotten of the Father, uncreated and without beginning, of one essence with the Father. The Holy Spirit has always existed as Spirit, eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son, and of one essence with them. The Godhead thus exists in a perfect unity, indivisible as to nature and substance, yet inseparably distinguished as persons who enjoy a fullness of fellowship and love.

The Bible 

We believe the Scriptures were recorded without error by men who were guided and superintended by the Holy Spirit of God so that all of Scripture as possessed in the 66 Books of the Bible are divinely inspired, infallible, authoritative, and fully sufficient. The Bible is God's revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, redemption for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. Therefore, all Scripture is inspired, authoritative, without error, incapable of error, sufficient, and completely trustworthy. It reveals the principles by which God judges us, and therefore is, and will remain to the end of the world, the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions should be tried. All Scripture is a testimony to Christ, who is Himself the focus of divine revelation.

 Human Beings

We believe Man is the special creation of God, made in His own image, and created male and female as the crowning work of His creation. The gift of gender is thus part of the goodness and perfection of God's creation. In the beginning Adam and Eve were innocent of sin but when tempted by Satan freely chose to disobey God’s command thus, bringing sin into the human race. Therefore, in union with Adam, human beings are sinners by nature and by choice, alienated from God, under His wrath, and are entirely incapable of saving themselves . Only through the grace of God and His saving work in Jesus Christ can we be rescued, redeemed, reconciled and renewed. 

Jesus Christ 

We believe Christ is the eternal Son of God. In His incarnation as Jesus Christ He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. Jesus perfectly revealed and did the will of God, taking upon Himself human nature with its demands and necessities and identifying Himself completely with mankind yet without sin. He honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and in His substitutionary death on the cross He made provision for the redemption of men from sin. He was raised from the dead with a glorified body and appeared to His disciples as the person who was with them before His crucifixion. He ascended into heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God where He is the One Mediator, fully God, fully man, in whose Person is effected the reconciliation between God and man. He will return in power and glory to judge the world and to consummate His redemptive mission.

Salvation 

Salvation involves the redemption of the whole person and is freely offered to all who repent of their sins and trust in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. As our substitute, Christ died on the cross as the perfect, all-sufficient atoning sacrifice, satisfying God's law, bearing our sins, and taking our punishment to reconcile us to God. His death fully propitiated God's wrath, vindicated His righteousness, and secured eternal redemption for believers.

God the Father accepted Christ's sacrifice as complete, raising Him to life and confirming His identity as the Messiah. Salvation is entirely the work of the Triune God: the Father initiates it, the Son accomplishes it, and the Holy Spirit completes it. Christ's atonement is wholly sufficient, requiring no further sacrifice or human merit. It secures the forgiveness of sins, faith, repentance, eternal life, and all blessings for God's people.

This saving work is to be proclaimed universally as the only way to reconciliation with God. Jesus Christ is the sole mediator between God and humanity, and He will graciously receive all who come to Him in faith.

ELECTION

Election is the gracious purpose of God, according to which He regenerates, justifies, sanctifies, and glorifies sinners. It is consistent with the responsibility of man to respond positively to the gospel in repentance and faith, and comprehends all the means in connection with the end. It is the glorious display of God’s sovereign goodness, and is infinitely wise, holy, and unchangeable. It excludes boasting and promotes humility.

All true believers will endure to the end. Those whom God has accepted in Christ, and sanctified by His Spirit, will never fall away from the state of grace, but shall persevere to the end. Believers may fall into sin through neglect and temptation, whereby they grieve the Spirit, impair their graces and comforts, and bring reproach on the cause of Christ and temporal judgments on themselves; yet they shall be kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation.

THE GOSPEL

We believe that the Gospel is the good news of what God has accomplished through Christ Jesus to justify sinners who repent of their sins and place faith in Christ Jesus alone for salvation. Christ's crucifixion is the heart of the gospel, his resurrection is the power of the gospel, and his ascension is the glory of the gospel. Christ's death was a substitutionary and propitiatory sacrifice to God for our sins which satisfied the demands of God's holy justice. Jesus Christ is the only mediator between God and man. There is no other name by which men must be saved. Whereas, Man's response to the gospel is rooted and grounded in the sovereign, free and unconditional election of God for his glory, we also believe that God commands everyone everywhere to repent and place faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and that anyone who comes to God by grace through faith in Christ will be saved. This gospel of grace is to be sincerely preached to all men in all nations.

The Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is the fully divine Spirit of God, the Third Person of the Trinity. He inspired holy men of old to write the Scriptures. Through illumination He enables men to understand truth. He exalts Christ. He convicts men of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. He calls men to the Savior, and effects regeneration. At the moment of regeneration He baptizes every believer into the Body of Christ. He cultivates Christian character, comforts believers, and sovereignly bestows the spiritual gifts by which they serve God through His church. He seals the believer unto the day of final redemption. His presence in the Christian is the guarantee that God will bring the believer into the fullness of the stature of Christ. He enlightens and empowers the believer and the church in worship, evangelism, and service.

The Church 

We believe that the church is the universal and invisible body of Christ that consists of all who have been justified by God's grace through faith alone in Christ alone throughout history. United by the Holy Spirit as the body of Christ, of which He is the Head, the church is manifest in local fellowships whose members have covenanted together to be accountable to one another under the headship of Christ by collectively submitting, instructing, admonishing, and caring for one another under the oversight of biblically qualified leaders. Furthermore, these local fellowships of believers should give themselves to upholding the truth in holiness by worshiping God through the preaching and teaching of the Word of God, the public reading of the Word, singing, observing the two ordinances of believer’s baptism and communion, carrying out church discipline, and seeking to make disciples and reach the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Christian Living 

We believe that God's justifying grace must not be separated from His sanctifying power and purpose. God commands us to love Him supremely and others sacrificially, and to live out our faith with care for one another, compassion toward the poor and justice for the oppressed. With God’s Word, the Spirit’s power, and fervent prayer in Christ’s name, we are to combat the spiritual forces of evil. In obedience to Christ’s commission, we are to make disciples among all people, always bearing witness to the gospel in word and deed. 

the future 

God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appropriate end. According to His promise, Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth; the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell, the place of everlasting punishment. The righteous in their resurrected and glorified bodies will receive their reward and dwell forever with the Lord.