Statement of Faith

1. The absolute truth of the Bible as originally given, its verbal inspiration by God and its supreme authority as the only rule of faith and practice.

2. The trinity of the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, who are the same in substance, equal in power and glory.

3. The essential, absolute and eternal deity of the Lord Jesus Christ; His conception by the Holy Spirit; His birth of the virgin Mary; His real but sinless humanity; His voluntary humiliation in life as a Man of Sorrows, culminating in His substitution death as a sacrifice for sin; His bodily resurrection from the dead on the third day; His ascension into heaven as the only Mediator between God and man and His coming again in power and glory.

4. The personality and deity of the Holy Spirit through whom individuals are born again to saving repentance and faith and by whom the saints are sanctified through the truth.

5. Man's utter ruin through the fall and his salvation solely by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, whose righteousness, imputed to Him, is the only ground of acceptance before God.

6. The resurrection of the body, the judgement of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal reward of the saved and the everlasting punishment of the lost.

7. The spiritual unity of all who truly believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and their duty to maintain, in themselves and in the Church, a standard of life and doctrine that is in conformity with the teaching of God's Holy Word.