God is one God but three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; the Three are co­existent, co-equal, and co-eternal. God has revealed Himself in His people Israel and supremely in Jesus Christ, as witnessed to by the Holy Scripture. He is our Father who loves us, like a mother who nurtures us, the King of His eternal Kingdom, and the Holy One who acts with justice and mercy. In sovereign love God created the world good by His Word and for His glory. Through the same Word, Jesus Christ, He creates new life in us and sustains all His creation. God is faithful to every promise, works all things toward His ultimate purposes, and gave His son, Jesus The Christ, by His grace to reconcile the whole creation and every human being to Himself through the cross.

Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God, the eternal Word made flesh, fully human and fully divine, and the unique and primary revelation of God to the world. Through Him all things were created and in Him all things are held together. The person and work of Jesus Christ are inseparable, for His person is His work for us. Jesus was conceived by The Holy Spirit and born of Mary, a virgin. He was perfect in nature, teaching, and obedience. By His complete obedience to the Father, He is the ideal human being. Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God, preached good news to the poor and release to the oppressed, blessed the children, ate with outcasts, healed the sick and brokenhearted, forgave sinners, and called all to repent and believe the Gospel. Jesus was crucified on a cross, suffering the depths of human pain and giving His life for the sins of the world. God raised this Jesus from the dead, breaking the power of sin and death, and delivering us from death to life with God. This Jesus sits today at the right hand of God and is preparing a place for all of His disciples in Heaven. The Father is putting all of Jesus' enemies under His footstool and the last enemy will be death. At that time, Jesus will return in the clouds to redeem His bride, the church. Until then He lives out His life in His church.

The Holy Spirit is a person, the third member of the Triune Godhead. He is the giver and renewer of life in Christ. The Spirit convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. He leads it to faith in Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit comes to glorify the Son and the Father through works of power and gifts. The Spirit spoke through the prophets and the apostles, intercedes for us before God, binds us together with all believers in unity, engages us through Scripture and The Word proclaimed, claims us for God in baptism, and is the free gift of Jesus to empower men and women for the ministries of the Church.

Humanity is the good creation of God, being made in the very image of God, both male and female. Human beings exist within God's created order to care for and love God's creation. Human beings are made to praise God and to have fellowship with God. Tempted by Satan, humanity rebelled against God. In dishonoring God's commands, we violate the image of God in others and ourselves, accept lies as truth, exploit neighbor and nature, and we become alienated from God. Apart from the grace of God which comes to us by Jesus Christ, we are incapable of returning to God. We are cut off from a life that has meaning and destiny, but also cut off from eternal life. But by the love of God in Jesus Christ, we are restored to our full humanity as the new creations of God, reconciled to our Creator forever.

Holy Scripture is the essential and infallible Story of God for humanity. The Bible is the authoritative and normative rule and guide for all Christian life, practice, and doctrine. Just as Jesus is both God and human, so Scripture also possesses the same elements: spoken and written by human beings, but under the guidance and inspiration of The Holy Spirit. The authority of Scripture is a function and is derivative from the authority of Jesus Christ. God has revealed Himself definitively in the One Word, Jesus Christ, and all authority rests with Him. However, Scripture has authority in the Church because it is, and to the extent that it is, the witness to the gospel of what God has done in Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit living in the church is necessary for Scripture to be realized in the Church, bearing witness with our spirits that Jesus of whom the Scriptures bear witness is the fullness of God's Self-Revelation and our Redeemer.

The Church is the creation of God by His Word and Spirit, the new humanity, the Body of Christ, and the reconciled people of God. The Church universal is made up of all those who have responded to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior by trusting Him and expressing that trust in the obedience and cleansing of baptism. The Church exists as a faith community to worship and glorify God, and to serve Him by faithfully doing His will on earth. It is the present demonstration of the Kingdom of God. Though the Reign of God exists inside and outside the church itself: The ascended Christ by The Spirit has given spiritual gifts to the Church so that the Body might grow and mature into the image of Christ Jesus.

The mission of the Church is founded in the mission of God, the redemption of all creation including all of humanity. The church exists to be a witness to the Good News in all the world by its verbal and lived testimony. The Church carries out its mission in society by its telling of God's Story, its acts of justice and compassion for the poor and oppressed, it's worship, and through all of it's ministries in the world.

The Lord’s Supper and Baptism are two sacramental events in the life of the church whereby God's grace for humanity is conveyed mysteriously and miraculously through human actions. These are not works to earn God's salvation for us---­they are the gifts of Christ for us as we participate in the finished salvation of God already obtained for us by the atonement of Jesus Christ.

Baptism is the beginning of the Christian life, the ultimate moment in the ongoing drama of conversion where the human sinner confesses the Lordship of Christ, submits to His redeeming power, and identifies himself or herself with the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus in both a symbolic and existential way. We believe baptism, according to Scripture, is by immersion for adults who choose Christ as their Savior. Christ welcomed children into the Kingdom, therefore proclaiming that all children belong to Him.

The Lord's Supper was established by Jesus Christ on the night before His crucifixion as a meal to be experienced in the presence of Jesus. It is a retelling of the Christian Exodus out of sin's bondage, a reliving of the work of Christ for us on the cross, and a remembrance of our salvation. It is a meal to be shared together as the Body of Christ as we attend to Christ in our midst both in reality and in each other. It is also the meal of hope which assures us of the coming meal together with Christ in His eternal Kingdom.

The Second Coming of Christ is the day in which the people of God await the return of Jesus Christ. The dead will be raised, and believers who are then living will join the raised dead in meeting Christ who will return the redeemed creation to it's Creator, where every knee will bow and confess Christ as Lord, and those who have believed in Him will enter into the presence and joys of life everlasting.