The Scriptures
The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is
God's revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine
instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth,
without any mixture of error, for its matter. Therefore, all Scripture is
totally true and trustworthy. 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 tried. All Scripture is a testimony to Christ,
who is Himself the focus of divine revelation.

God
There is one and only
one living and true God. …The eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as
Father, Son and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without
division of nature, essence, or being.

God the Father
God as Father reigns with
providential care over His universe, His creatures, and the flow of the stream
of human history according to the purposes of His grace. …God is Father in truth
to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ.

God the Son
Christ is the eternal Son of God. In
His incarnation as Jesus Christ, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of
the virgin Mary. …He honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and in
His substitutionary death on the cross, He made provision for the redemption of
men from sin.

God the Holy Spirit
The Holy
Spirit is the Spirit of God, fully divine. …He exalts Christ. He convicts men of
sin, of righteousness and of judgment. …He enlightens and empowers the believer
and the church in worship, evangelism, and service.

Man
Man is the special
creation of God, in His own image. He created them male and female as the
crowning work of His creation. …By his free choice man sinned against God and
brought sin into the human race. … The sacredness of human personality is
evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for
man; therefore every person of every race possesses dignity and is worthy of
respect and Christian love.

Salvation
Salvation involves
the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus
Christ as Lord and Saviour, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for
the believer. In its broadest sense salvation includes regeneration,
justification, sanctification, and glorification.

God's Purpose of Grace
Election is the gracious purpose of God, according to
which He regenerates, justifies, sanctifies, and glorifies sinners. …All true
believers endure to the end. Those whom God has accepted in Christ, and
sanctified by His Spirit will never fall away from the state of grace, but shall
persevere to the end.

The Church
A New Testament
church of the Lord Jesus Christ is an autonomous local congregation of baptized
believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel,
observing the two ordinances of Christ, governed by His laws, exercising the
gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word, and seeking to
extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. Each congregation operates under the
Lordship of Christ through democratic processes. In such a congregation each
member is responsible and accountable to Christ as Lord. Its scriptural officers
are pastors and deacons. While both men and women are gifted for service in the
church, the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture.

Baptism & the Lord's Supper
Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water.
…It is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer's faith in a crucified,
buried, and risen Saviour, the believer's death to sin, the burial of the old
life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ
Jesus.

The Lord's Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members …
memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second
coming.

Evangelism & Missions
It is the duty and
privelege of every follower of Christ and every church of the Lord Jesus Christ
to endeavor to make disciples of all nations... to seek constantly to win the
lost to Christ by verbal witness undergirded by a Christian lifestyle, and by
other methods in harmony with the gospel of Christ.

The Lord's Day
The first day
of the week is the Lord's Day. …It commemorates the resurrection of Christ from
the dead and should be employed in exercises of worship and spiritual
devotion.

Last Things
God, in His own
time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appropriate end. …Jesus
Christ will return personally and visibly…the dead will be raised; and Christ
will judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell.
…The righteous… will receive their reward and will dwell forever in Heaven with
the Lord.

Stewardship
God is the
source of all blessings, temporal and spiritual; all that we have and are we owe
to Him. Christians have a spiritual debtorship to the whole world, a holy
trusteeship in the gospel, and a binding stewardship in their possessions. They
are therefore under obligation to serve Him with their time, talents, and
material possessions.

Cooperation
Christ's people
should … organize such associations and conventions as may best secure
cooperation for the great objects of the Kingdom of God. Such organizations have
no authority over one another or over the churches. …Cooperation is desirable
between the various Christian denominations.

The Christian & the Social Order
All Christians are under obligation to seek to make the
will of Christ supreme in our own lives and in human society... in the spirit of
Christ, Christians should oppose racism, every form of greed, selfishness, and
vice, and all forms of sexual immorality, including adultery, homosexuality, and
pornography. We should work to provide for the orphaned, the needy, the abused,
the aged, the helpless, and the sick. We should speak on behalf of the unborn
and contend for the sanctity of all human life from conception to natural
death...

Religious Liberty
Church and
state should be separate. The state owes to every church protection and full
freedom in the pursuit of its spiritual ends. …A free church in a free state is
the Christian ideal.

Family
God has ordained the
family as the foundational institution of human society. It is composed of
persons related to one another by marriage, blood or adoption.

Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a
lifetime. ... The husband and wife are of equal worth before God, since both are
created in God's image. A husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the
church. He has the God-given responsibility to provide for, to protect, and to
lead his family. A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant
leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship
of Christ. She, being in the image of God as is her husband and thus equal to
him, has the God-given responsibility to respect her husband and to serve as his
helper in managing the household and nurturing the next generation... Children,
from the moment of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the Lord.
Parents are to demonstrate to their children God's pattern for marriage.