(Scriptures: 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Psalm 119:105, Isaiah 40:8, John 17:17, Hebrews 4:12)

The Bible is God’s inerrant, holy Word, inseparable from God and His final authority on truth, wisdom, and validation. It is the center of unity, instruction, and judgment.

(Scriptures: Matthew 28:19, 2 Corinthians 13:14, John 1:1-3, Colossians 2:9, John 14:26)

God is infinitely all-powerful, all-knowing, and everywhere present. He is in three persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) with one essence but having different roles:

• The Father is the source of creation and the ultimate object of our prayers
• The Son is the revealer of God and our mediator to Him
• The Holy Spirit as our empowerer, counselor, and comforter

(Scriptures: Ephesians 2:8-9, James 2:17, Galatians 5:22-23, Hebrews 3:12-14, 2 Peter 2:20-22, Luke 15:17-24, Romans 12:1-2, Philippians 3:10-14, Hebrews 12:14, John 15:4-5, Matthew 7:16-20)

Salvation is a freely chosen event initiated by God’s grace and received through faith in Jesus Christ. It is not earned by works, yet it transforms the believer from within through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, who empowers a life that bears fruit.

While no daily effort or merit can preserve salvation, it may be forfeited through a hardened heart that persistently rejects God, suppresses the Spirit’s prompting, continues in unrepentant sin, and ultimately turns away in unbelief. Even so, I believe God remains ever willing to receive the repentant—restoring all who return to Him with sincere hearts.

The Christian life is not sustained by legalistic striving but by Spirit-led growth, daily surrender, and relational intimacy with God. Holiness is both a calling and a process, shaped by the disciplines of prayer, obedience, worship, and loving service. Assurance of salvation is rooted in God’s faithfulness, as I make this visible through the fruit of the Spirit and cultivate it in a life that abides in Christ.

Church-centered duty and discipline are essential for growth, support, and accountability.

Our secular government is God-ordained, and its laws are to be supported and followed, except when they contradict God’s Word. I will suffer the punishment imposed when following God in these cases. 

(Scriptures: Romans 10:17, John 3:16, Acts 2:38, Romans 6:3-4, Acts 22:16, 1 John 1:9, Titus 3:5, Matthew 28:19-20)

The following statements describe the Biblical pattern of how saving faith is received and expressed—not as a formula, but as a Spirit-led response of obedience to God’s invitation:

• Hear and understand that Jesus is the Son of God.
• Believe that Jesus lived a sinless life, took on my sins at the cross, died for me, overcame Satan and death through the resurrection, and now serves as my mediator in heaven.
• Repent, turning away from my sinful life.
• Confess that Jesus is my Savior and the one through whom I inherit eternal life with God and His saints.
• Be baptized, immersed in water as a sacrament and Spirit-led act of obedience for the forgiveness of sins and the receipt of the Holy Spirit—more than just a symbol, it is a divinely appointed moment of surrender and grace.
• Live a holy life, separated from worldliness, yet richly integrated into the world to bring others into God’s kingdom.

(Scriptures: John 13:34-35, Matthew 22:37-39, 1 Corinthians 13:1-7, Romans 13:10)

I am called to love God, myself, and others as Jesus loves—with a reverence, humility, mercy, truth, and sacrificial grace.

(Scriptures: Psalm 139:13-16, Genesis 1:27, Jeremiah 1:5)

Human life begins at conception, and I affirm that I was created uniquely and intentionally by God, bearing His image from the womb.

(Scriptures: Philippians 2:13, Romans 8:26, Ephesians 2:1, John 15:5, 1 Thessalonians 5:24, Romans 12:3, Matthew 25:14-30)

I co-labor with God to serve Him, seeking and reacting to His prompting, asking for His leading, motivation, strength, peace, joy, and wisdom. I am to seek Him, but I know that ultimately, He will gift me with His prescribed measure of faith, grace, peace, desire, and motivation to follow Him.

I recognize that apart from God, I am spiritually dead and unable to seek or follow Him on my own. I wholly depend on His grace—not only for life but even for the desire and strength to live for Him.

By God’s grace, salvation is received through faith—a response I must freely make, yet one that is only possible through His initiative and enabling. God grants each believer a unique measure of faith, grace, peace, and strength in His wisdom and purpose. Some are entrusted with visible leadership, others with quiet endurance, but each is fully responsible for responding faithfully to what has been given.

Co-laboring with my spouse, my family, and my local church, and the Church at large, is essential in working together towards inceasing love, support, and accountability to furhter God’s kingdom. 

(Scriptures: Matthew 28:19, Acts 2:38, Luke 22:19-20, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, Hebrews 13:4, Genesis 2:24)

Baptism is a sacrament—an outward, Spirit-led act of obedience that reflects an inward work of grace. I affirm baptism by immersion in water for the forgiveness of sins and the receipt of the Holy Spirit. It is more than a symbol; it is a divinely appointed moment of surrender and grace, marking one’s entrance into the life of discipleship and union with Christ.

(Scriptures: Luke 22:19-20, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, John 6:53-58)

I regularly partake of Communion, eating unleavened bread to represent Jesus’s body and drinking grape juice representing His blood. These are holy symbols—not a transubstantiation into the actual body and blood—but sacred acts of remembrance and fellowship with Christ. Partaking is to be preceded by solemn, careful self-examination.

(Scriptures: Genesis 2:24, Matthew 19:4-6, Hebrews 13:4, Ephesians 5:25-33, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11)

Marriage is God’s gift of holy union between a biological man and woman, designed to reflect His covenantal love and purpose. All sexual sins—including adultery, fornication, homosexuality, pornography, lust, and others, whether acted on or imagined—stand outside God’s design and call for repentance and transformation. Yet these are no more offensive to God than sins such as pride, greed, gluttony, or selfishness. All sin distorts God’s image in us, and all require Spirit-led repentance and co-laboring with God toward holiness and restoration.

(Scriptures: 1 Timothy 4:7-8, Acts 2:42, Joshua 1:8, Psalm 1:1-3, James 1:22, Hebrews 10:25)

Daily disciplines—such as Bible study, prayer, meditation, abiding in God’s presence, and acts of service—form the rhythm of my spiritual life and shape my walk with Christ. I will not forsake the assembly, laboring in communion with family, friends, and the church to collectively grow towards holiness.