We believe the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments are the inspired, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God. Scripture reveals who God is, what he has done for our salvation, and how his people are to live before him. Because God has spoken, his Word is the final authority for our faith, worship, and life. The church does not stand over Scripture, but receives it with faith and seeks, by God’s grace, to believe and obey all that he has revealed.

Humanity was created for fellowship with God, but through the sin of Adam we have fallen under guilt, corruption, and death. In love and mercy, God sent his eternal Son, Jesus Christ, the Second Adam, who took on our humanity, lived in perfect obedience, died in the place of sinners, rose bodily from the grave, and now reigns as Lord. We are reconciled to God not by our own works or worthiness, but by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. In Christ, believers are forgiven, declared righteous, adopted as God’s children, and given eternal life.

We gladly stand in the Reformed tradition of the Protestant Reformation. We believe that God is sovereign over creation, providence, and salvation, and that salvation from beginning to end is the gracious work of the Triune God. Throughout Scripture, God relates to his people by covenant, promising, “I will be your God, and you shall be my people.” The Christian life is therefore a life of grateful obedience. Our good works do not earn God’s favor, but flow from the grace we have already received in Christ.

Christ gathers his people into his church and has appointed ordinary means by which he strengthens and nourishes their faith. Chief among these are the preaching of the Word, the sacraments, and prayer. We therefore gather each Lord’s Day to hear God’s Word read and preached, sing his praise, pray together, and receive Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. We baptize believers and their children as members of the visible covenant community, and in the Lord’s Supper Christ truly feeds his people spiritually as they receive the signs of bread and wine in faith.

Those united to Christ are called to a life of repentance, faith, and growing obedience. The Holy Spirit works in believers to conform them more and more to the image of Christ, producing good works as the fruit rather than the cause of salvation. Christians still struggle with sin, but God preserves his people and promises to complete the work he has begun in them. We live in hope of Christ’s return, the resurrection of the body, the final judgment, and everlasting life with God in the new heavens and new earth.