HUMANITY
We teach God created mankind—male and female—in His own image and likeness, free of sin, to glorify and enjoy Him. Adam and Eve were given the privilege to oversee all of God’s creation under His guidance and care. Tempted by Satan, but in the sovereign plan of God, Adam and Eve chose to disobey God, bringing sin, death, and a death sentence to all people. All human beings are totally corrupt by nature and by choice. Alienated from God without defense or excuse and subject to God’s righteous justice, all of humanity is in desperate need of the Savior.
SALVATION
We teach the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as the substitutionary atonement in our place and that salvation is found in none other than Jesus Christ. Before Creation, God chose His people and granted each one unearned grace solely based on His good pleasure. Jesus Christ’s death on the cross was the sole and complete payment for sin, fully satisfying God’s righteous justice, for each person that turns from sin in repentance and places his or her faith in Christ alone by grace alone. If we go to heaven, it is because of God’s unmerited grace through Jesus Christ, and if we are eternally separated from Him, it is because of our own rebellion. We hold these two truths with humility and awe. At salvation, each person is made a new creation by the Holy Spirit, declared righteous before God, and adopted as a child of God forever. Genuine faith continues in obedience and love for Jesus Christ with a life eager to glorify God and persevere to the end.
