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The Person of the Holy Spirit

We believe that the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity and is God. He is coequal and consubstantial with the Father and with His Son. We recognize His sovereign activity in creation, the incarnation, the written revelation, and the work of salvation. He was sent at Pentecost to initiate and complete the building of the Body of Christ.

Man

We believe that man was directly and immediately created by God in His image and likeness, free from sin, with the intent that he should glorify God, enjoy God's fellowship, live in God's will, and by this accomplish God's purpose for man in the world. Through Adam's sin of disobedience, man lost his innocence, incurred the penalty of physical and spiritual death, became subject to God's wrath, and became corrupt. Man is thus hopelessly lost apart from the salvation which is the redemptive work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Salvation

We believe that salvation of lost mankind is wholly of God by grace, through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, by the merit of His shed blood, not on the basis of human merit, or by works. It is supernatural work of the Holy Spirit by which we receive eternal life and share in the divine nature. Repentance which is faith in the substitutionary death of Christ is essential in it. On the basis of Christ's substitutionary death which provided propitiation for our sins, God declares us righteous(justified) in Christ, having been reconciled to God. All the redeemed once saved are kept by God's power and are secure in Christ forever. The assurance of our salvation is based solely upon the promise of God's Word.

Sanctification

We believe that every believer is "set apart" i.e. sanctified, unto God by the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. Every believer is therefore declared to be holy and identified as a saint. In yielding to the Spirit in obedience to the Word of God, the believer is able to live a life of increasing holiness, becoming more and more like the Lord Jesus Christ, though never reaching sinless perfection in this life. There is a conflict between the new creation in Christ and the flesh that continues throughout this earthly life, but the Holy Spirit does provide victory over sin.