I believe in one transcendent and sovereign God, creator and sustainer of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three distinct persons—Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
I believe that the Holy Scriptures—both Old and New Testaments—are the inspired (God-breathed), inerrant, and trustworthy Word of God, the complete revelation of His will for the redemption of human beings, and the final authority for all matters about which they speak. They are accurately interpreted only by the inner witness of the Holy Spirit who inspired their writing and indwells true believers.

I believe that human nature derives from two historical persons, male and female, created uniquely among all of God?s created works, in the image of God. They were created without a bent toward sin, but given a free will to choose either to obey God or to disobey His revealed instructions. When tested by Satan, our first parents sinned, then passed on to all human beings, as their heirs, a sinful nature, with its heritage of guilt, suffering, death and eternal separation from God.

I believe that the death of Jesus Christ was substitutionary, providing a legal basis for God to redeem a lost humankind. I believe that the death and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ offer the only ground for justification, forgiveness and salvation for all who believe in Him. Only those who trust in Him alone for salvation are born of the Holy Spirit, true members of His Body, the Church, and will spend eternity with Christ in Heaven.

I believe in the second coming of Jesus Christ, bodily, to earth, the perseverance of the saints, and the eventual judgment by God on an unbelieving world.

I believe that the Holy Spirit is God?s sole agent of regeneration and renewal for believers in Jesus Christ. He makes the presence of Jesus Christ real in believers. He comforts, guides, convicts of sin and enables believers to live in ways that honor Him. Without His life flowing through us, we are not capable of doing anything pleasing to Him.

I believe that God has gifted each believer for his/her place in the Body. Ministry to human beings is His plan, redemptive in nature, subject to His direction, and dependent on His ultimate power to change human hearts. We are called upon to minister to human persons, as a complex combination of physical, spiritual , psychological, and social beings, recognizing ourselves to be the same. The final goal of all service is the glory of God.

Ethel L. Herr