1) The verbal inspiration of the Holy Scriptures as originally given.

2) God, our heavenly Father, is the supreme deity.

3) Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God, and we believe in His divine nature; His virgin birth; His sinless life; His miracles; His vicarious and atoning death; His bodily resurrection late on the Sabbath day after being in the tomb for 3 days and 3 nights; His ascension to the right hand of God in heaven; and His personal return to establish His kingdom and rule this earth in great power and glory.

4) The fact that all men have sinned and consequently must be regenerated by the working of God’s grace.

5) The only means of being justified and cleansed from sin is through repentance and faith in the precious blood of Jesus and obedience to our Lord’s command to be baptized (immersed) in water in the name of Christ.

6) The sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit in the believer producing holiness of life and power for service.

7) Practical faith in the sufficiency of Christ for spiritual, temporal, and physical needs.

8) The Scriptures enjoin all those who are saved by God’s grace to observe the Ten Commandments, including the observance and sanctity of the Seventh Day Sabbath (commonly called Saturday), to be observed from sunset on Friday until sunset on Saturday.

9) The Lord’s Supper should be faithfully observed once a year at the proper and appointed time.

10) The value and promotion of spiritual unity and brotherly love among believers, demonstrated by the mutual acceptance and respect of putting others before ourselves, and symbolically observed by washing one another’s feet.

11) The purifying hope of the Lord’s imminent return.

12) The urgency of preaching the gospel to all mankind that men may be save.

13) The resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust—the just to eternal life and the unjust to eternal death.

14) The dead are in a state of no consciousness.

15) The pattern for the true church in God’s Word was to consist of localized bodies of believers, each responsible and accountable for their own local business and affairs, but united interdependently by mutual encouragement and faith, and working together to do God’s work locally and throughout the world.