The Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is the record of God’s revelation of Himself to humanity. It is an authoritative source of divine instruction in all areas of faith and practice. The Bible has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. 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 measured. The criterion by which all teachings should be interpreted is Jesus Christ.   -Top-

Only one living and true God exists. God is an intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being, the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe. To God we owe the highest love, reverence, and obedience. God’s character and being has been revealed to humanity as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being. While God is often referred to in masculine terms, God contains both ‘maleness’ and ‘femaleness’ (Gen 1:27). The masculine nouns and pronouns used to describe God should not limit our concept of God who is ‘spiritual . . . Being.’

• God, the Father reigns with providential care over God’s universe, creatures, and the flow of the stream of human history according to the purposes of God’s grace. God is all-powerful, all loving, and all wise. God is Father in truth to those who become part of God’s family through faith in Jesus Christ. God’s beneficent parental attitude is directed toward all humans.
• Christ as God, the Son is eternal. In Christ’s incarnation as Jesus he was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. Jesus completely revealed and accomplished the will of God, taking upon himself the demands and necessities of human nature and identifying himself completely with humankind without sin. He honored God’s teachings by his personal obedience, and in his death on the cross he made provision for the redemption of humans from alienation from God. 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, partaking of the nature of Creator and creature, and in whose Person is effected the reconciliation between God and humans. He will return in power and glory to judge the world and to consummate his redemptive mission. He now dwells in all believers as the living and ever-present Lord.
• The Holy Spirit is God’s personal presence and active agency in the life of each believer. He exalts Christ. He convicts of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. He calls persons to the Savior, and effects regeneration. He cultivates God’s character in each disciple, comforts believers, and bestows spiritual gifts by which disciples serve God through the Church. The Holy Spirit seals the believer for the day of final redemption. He enlightens and empowers the believer and the church in worship, evangelism, and service. The Holy Spirit inspired men of old to write what came to be understood as the Holy Scriptures and through illumination, God, the Spirit, enables persons today to understand the Truth.   -Top-

Human beings were created by the special act of God, created in God’s own image, and are the crowning work of God’s creation. Part of being created in God’s image means each human has been endowed with freedom of choice. By that free choice each person has chosen self-determination over God’s will and suffers alienation from God because of that self will. Any alienating act is called sin and brings the consequence of eternal separation from our Creator. However, the sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created humans in His own image, that Christ died for repair the breech between Creator and creature, and that the Holy Spirit possesses and indwells the believer. Therefore every person possesses dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.   -Top-

Sin is the human will-to-power, the human being’s effort to be self-sufficient and self-directing. Sin is the human’s desire to be God. Therefore, sin is defined as any attitude that leads to acts of free will by the human that are contrary to and supplant God’s beneficent will for that person. Any such act separates and alienates the person from his/her God. Sin is more a direction of life into self and away from God than it is isolated acts. Sinful acts are symptom. The life of sin is the life lived without regard for the Creator’s desires and purposes. This life always leads to eternal destruction unless the person turns Godward.   -Top-

Salvation involves the redemption of the whole being, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. Salvation is a process that includes spiritual birth (or, theologically speaking, regeneration), spiritual maturity (or, sanctification), and final blessed eternal state of the redeemed (or, glorification).   -Top-

Spiritual maturity, or sanctification, is the process of salvation between the confession of faith and the end of the believer’s earthly existence. In this process God sets the believer apart for God’s purposes, and God, the Holy Spirit, indwells and leads the believer toward spiritual completeness, which finds expression in part in the moral and ethical actions of the believer as a reflection of an ever-increasing Christ-likeness (II Cor 3:17f). This process makes one holy and a saint.   -Top-

A New Testament Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is a local body of baptized believers who are associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel, observing the two ordinances of Christ, committed to His teachings, worshiping in Spirit and truth, exercising spiritual gifts in worship, ministry and mission, actively seeking to bring others here and around the world into right relationship with God, the Father, through Jesus, the Son, and who support each other in every way, thereby helping all disciple-members grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus.   -Top-

Every follower of Christ has been extended the privilege and the responsibility to be instrumental in making disciples of all nations. The believer’s new birth by God’s Holy Spirit means the birth of love for others, or selflessness. That love finds expression through the disciple’s gifted service (ministry) in God’s power. Missionary effort on the part of all rests upon a spiritual necessity of the regenerate life, and is expressly and repeatedly commanded in the teachings of Christ. It is the duty of every child of God to seek constantly to lead the lost to Christ by personal, Spirit-directed effort through any methods inspired by the Spirit, which will be in harmony with the gospel of Christ.   -Top-

God is the source of all blessings, temporal and spiritual; all that we have and are we owe to God. Christians, as voluntary servants of God, have a spiritual obligation to serve God with their time, abilities, and material possessions; and recognize all these as entrusted to them to use for the glory of God and for helping others. According to the Scriptures, Christians are to contribute of their means cheerfully, regularly, systematically, proportionally, and liberally for the advancement of the Redeemer’s cause on earth.   -Top-