Divinity
We believe that God the Father, the first Person of the Trinity, orders and disposes all things according to His own purposes and grace (Psalms 145:8-9; 1 Corinthians 8:6). He is the Creator of all things (Genesis 1:1-31; Ephesians 3:9). As the only absolute and omnipotent Ruler of the universe, He is sovereign in creation, providence, judgment and redemption (Psalms 103;19; Romans 11:36). He has decreed for His own glory all things that come to pass (Ephesians 1:11) and continually upholds, directs, and governs all creatures and events (1 Chronicles 29:11). In His sovereignty He is neither author nor approver of sin (Habakkuk 1:13), nor does He abridge the accountability of moral, intelligent creatures (I Peter 1:17; Revelation 20:12). He has graciously chosen from eternity past those whom He would redeem and effectually call to salvation (Ephesians 1:4-6).
Fatherhood
We believe that God the Father’s fatherhood involves both His designation within the Trinity and His relationship with mankind. In the Trinity, He is expressly the authority to which the Son submits and the One whom the Son exists to please. As Creator He is Father to all men (Ephesians 4:6), but He is spiritual Father by adoption only to those who believe (John 1:12; Romans 8:14-15; 2 Corinthians 6:18; Galatians 4:5; Hebrews 12:5-9).
God the Son
Divinity
We believe that God the Son, the second Person of the Trinity possesses all the divine excellencies and is coequal, consubstantial, and coeternal with the Father (John 10:30; 14:9).
We affirm that it is by necessity through the Son that the Father created all things and that it is through Him that all things continue in existence and in operation (John 1:3; Colossians 1:15-17; Hebrews 1:2-3). Incarnation
We believe that God the Son became incarnate (became man) (John 1:1, 14) in obedience to the Father to fulfill His will (John 4:34; 5:30; 6:38; 17;4; Hebrews 10:5-10), and that His incarnation was necessary to reveal the Father, redeem men, and physically rule over God’s millennial kingdom (Psalms 2:7-9; Isaiah 9:6; John 1:29; Philippians 2:9-11; Hebrews 7:25-26; 1 Peter 1:18-21). In His incarnation, the eternally existing Son surrendered only the prerogatives of deity but nothing of the define essence, either in degree or kind; moreover, He took on all the essential characteristics of humanity and so became the one and only God-man (Philippians 2:5-8; Colossians 2:9).
Death
We believe that our Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through the shedding of His blood and sacrificial death on the cross and that His death was voluntary (John 10:15-18), substitutionary (Romans 5:8:-9; 2 Corinthians 5:14-15, 21), propitiatory (Romans 3:24-25; 1 John 2:2), and redemptive (1 Peter 2:24; 3:18). It is through this act that the believing sinner is freed from the punishment, the penalty, the power, and one day the very presence of sin; and that he is declared righteous, given eternal life, and adopted into the family of God.
Resurrection
We believe that in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the grave (Matthew 28:6; Luke 24:38-39), God confirmed the deity of His Son (Romans 1:4), the justification of believers (Romans 4:25), the guarantee of a future resurrection life for all believers (John 5:26-29; 14:19; Romans 6:5-10; 1 Corinthians 15:20, 23), and His ascension to the right hand of the Father (Acts 2:32-36; Romans 8:34), where He now mediates as our Advocate and High Priest (Romans 8:34; Hebrews 7:25; 9:24; 1 John 2:1).
The Church
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Head of His Body, the church (Ephesians 1:22; 5:23; Colossians 1:18), and is the Great Shepherd of our souls (Hebrews 13:20) and the Chief Shepherd above all human shepherds of the flock, the church (1 Peter 5:4).
Second Coming
We believe that Jesus Christ will return to receive the church, which is His Body, unto Himself at the rapture, and when He returns with His church in glory, He will establish His millennial kingdom on earth (Acts 1:9-11; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18; Revelation 20) and will reign over the world from the throne of David (Isaiah 9:6-7; Luke 1:31-33). We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is the One through whom God will judge all mankind, the living and the dead (Matthew 25:31-46; John 5:22-23; Acts 10:42; 17:31), all whose names are not written in the Lamb’s book of life (Revelation 20:11-15).
God the Holy Spirit
Divinity
We believe that the Holy Spirit is a divine Person, the third Person of the Trinity, who is eternal, uncreated (underived), possessing all the attributes of personality (intellect [1 Corinthians 2:10-13], emotions [Ephesians 4:30], will [I Corinthians 12:11], etc.) and deity (eternality [Hebrews 9:14], omnipresence [Psalms 139:7-10], omniscience [Isaiah 40:13-14], truthfulness [John 16:13], etc.). In all of His attributes He is coequal, consubstantial, and coeternal with the Father and the Son (Matthew 28:19; Acts 5:3-4; 28:25-26; 1 Corinthians 12:4-6; 2 Corinthians 13:14). He is the One who executes the divine will with respect to all mankind. We recognize His sovereign activity in creation (Genesis 1:2), the virgin conception (Matthew 1:18; Luke 1:35), the written revelation (Jeremiah 31:31 [cf. Hebrews 10:15]; 2 Peter 1:20-21), and the work of salvation (John 3:5-7).