I BELIEVE that humanity are created to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever; nothing in life has a higher purpose than this grand goal; in this great truth we find comfort as well as purpose.
I BELIEVE that God has revealed in the Bible how we should glorify and enjoy Him; the Bible is the infallible Word of God; it comes from the inspiration of the Holy Spirit; it is inerrant in all that it affirms as true; it tells us what to believe and how to live; our confidence in life and death is based on the certitude of God’s Word. The criterion by which the Scripture should be interpreted is Jesus Christ.
I BELIEVE that God is Spirit, infinite in all His attributes, and incomparable in all that He is; He is one God in Three Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; our Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier; in whose power and wisdom, righteousness, goodness, mercy, and grace we trust.
I BELIEVE that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and that He sustains and guides all things in accordance with His divine will; in His wisdom and kind Providence we safely trust.
I BELIEVE that God created man in His own image, thus we are not animals or machines produced by a chance-driven evolutionary process; as God’s image bearers, we have intrinsic worth, significance, and meaning; we have immortal souls which will depart our bodies at death and will go either to heaven or hell; our dignity comes from being created in the image of God, which dignity we share with all other men and women regardless of race or creed.
I BELIEVE that we fell into sin and guilt with Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden; the results of Adam’s Fall are so cosmic in scope and so radical in nature that only God Himself could restore Paradise to man; by virtue of our sinful nature inherited from Adam, we are incapable of meriting the grace or favor of God; we are entirely dependent upon His mercy and grace for our salvation and we do not trust in our own works or goodness.
I BELIEVE that the Father sent the Son to redeem a lost and erring mankind; Jesus of Nazareth actually existed in history and that He was the Christ, i. e. the long awaited Jewish Messiah; He is the eternal pre-existent Word of God; He is God of very God as well as man of very man, two natures but one person; He willingly died on the cross for our sins; He arose bodily on the third day for our justification; He ascended into heaven for our sanctification; and He is now at the right hand of the Father to intercede on our behalf.
I BELIEVE that the Father and the Son sent the Holy Spirit to apply to us what Christ accomplished according to the plan of the Father; our only hope for heaven is based on the fact that we are chosen by the Father, purchased by the Son, and sealed by the Spirit, blessed God Three in One!
I BELIEVE that salvation is by grace alone through faith in Christ alone apart from works; justification is that act of God in which the imputed righteousness of Christ is credited to our account; all our hopes for heaven rest solely on the divinity of His person and the sufficiency and finality of His work of atonement.
I BELIEVE that the Christian Church, both universal and local, was set up by the Lord Jesus Christ to be His Body on earth; God has given to the Church the glorious privilege of preaching the gospel in all the world; all those who have placed their faith in Jesus Christ for salvation are our brothers and sisters in Christ regardless of denominational distinctions.
I BELIEVE that Jesus Christ is the only way to the Father; His name is the only name under heaven whereby we might be saved; there is only one true God, Maker of heaven and earth; all the gods of the heathen are false gods; repentance toward God and faith in Jesus Christ are essential to salvation; the gospel is the only message of salvation for a lost and erring mankind.
I BELIEVE that evangelism is about spreading the good news that Jesus Christ died for our sins and was raised from the dead according to the Scriptures, and that as the reigning Lord he now offers the forgiveness of sins and the liberating gifts of the Spirit to all who repent and believe; Christian presence in the world is indispensable to evangelism, and so is that kind of dialogue whose purpose is to listen sensitively in order to understand; evangelism itself is the proclamation of the historical, biblical Christ as Savior and Lord, it involves discipleship denying self, taking up the cross, and identify ing with his new community.
I BELIEVE that God is both the Creator and the Judge of all men. We therefore should share his concern for justice and reconciliation throughout human society and for the liberation of men and women from every kind of oppression. Because men and women are made in the image of God, every person, regardless of race, religion, color, culture, class, sex or age, has an intrinsic dignity because of which he or she should be respected and served, not exploited.
I BELIEVE in the resurrection of the dead will happen at the second coming of our Lord Jesus; all people will be judged fairly at the resurrection, the righteous to eternal life in communion with God and unrighteous to eternal damnation which is separation from God forever.
