Here are some summaries of what we believe:

We respect and find help toward doctrinal clarity in many of the great, historic confessions of faith (most notably the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith here, the Baptist Faith & Message 2000 here, and the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy here), but here’s a brief summary of the things we believe and hold dear:

We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the inspired, inerrant, authoritative, and sufficient Word of God; the final authority for faith and life.

We believe in the Trinity: one God, eternally existent in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, His bodily resurrection, ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal return in power and glory.

We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.

We believe in the fall, in which our first parents, though created in innocence, by voluntary transgression fell from their sinless and happy state, with the result that all humans are now sinners by nature, in need of salvation through Jesus Christ.

We believe in the absolute Sovereignty of God, even in matters of human salvation.

We believe in salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, and not upon the basis of any good works or human merit. We believe that salvation is always accompanied by regeneration, which always bears good fruit.

We believe in the perseverance of the saints; true believers will continue repenting, believing, and following Jesus Christ.

We believe in the literal, visible, and bodily return of our Lord Jesus Christ, and in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost, those who are saved unto the resurrection of life, and those who are lost unto the resurrection of condemnation.

(The following are not typically found in doctrinal statements, but given the current, cultural climate in our land, they lend some important clarity).

We believe that male and female are the only genders, that men cannot become women, and that women cannot become men, that marriage is between one biological man and one biological woman, and that human sexuality is only to be realized in the context of that marriage. We also believe that the office of pastor is open only to Biblically qualified men, and that men are to do the preaching and teaching in church, that a husband is the head of his home, and that wives are to be submissive to their husband’s leadership. We also believe that there is great blessing and liberty in these God-ordained roles.