As a local church that is led by our pastors and governed by our membership, we believe it is important to communicate how we relate with all of Christ's church today and through the ages. This is difficult to do since every statement and historic document can mean a variety of things to people, depending on their tradition and perception. However, we will share (below) a sampling of documents created by various Christians and churches through the ages.

Please give us grace and consider our listing of the statements below in the way we have communicated. These are not binding on our church membership. We are simply saying that as a local Baptist church, we understand ourselves to share in the heritage of these (some revised) creeds, confessions, and statements and that they largely reflect what you can expect to hear in our preaching and teaching.

The more contemporary statements reflect how we hold to the inspiration and authority of scripture, complementarity of men and women, biblical sexuality and purity, and the unity of the human race being made in the image of God.

As Christians, we believe God has revealed His Word to us in the Bible and also blessed His church with sound doctrine defined and clarified through the ages. We are not an island to ourselves. Jesus has been and will be faithful to build His church. With this conviction, we affirm the theological heritage of the following creeds and historic commitments (with the understanding that "catholic" means "universal" and does not refer to Roman Catholicism): the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed, the Chalcedonian Creed, the Five Solas of the Protestant Reformation.

As Baptists, we affirm the theological heritage of such historic Baptist confessions as: the New Hampshire Confession of Faith and the Baptist Faith and Message.

As Bible-believing Christians facing contemporary issues, we maintain such doctrinal and ethical commitments as those found in: the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy (1978), the Danvers Statement on Biblical Complementarity (1987), the Nashville Statement on Biblical Sexuality (2017), and the Augustine School Statement on Social Theory (2022).

I believe in God the Father Almighty; Maker of heaven and earth.

And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary; suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried; the third day he rose from the dead; he ascended into heaven; and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit; the holy [universal] Church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.

^{*This is an earlier version that does not confusingly include the words "descended to hell."}

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I believe in one God the Father Almighty; Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father; by whom all things were made; who, for us men and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; he suffered and was buried; and the third day he rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father; and he shall come again, with glory, to judge both the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.

And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life; who proceedeth from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified; who spake by the Prophets. And one Holy [Universal] Church.

I acknowledge one Baptism [which declares] the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

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We, then, following the holy Fathers, all with one consent, teach men to confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the same perfect in Godhead and also perfect in manhood; truly God and truly man, of a reasonable soul and body; consubstantial with the Father according to the Godhead, and consubstantial with us according to the Manhood; in all things like unto us, without sin; begotten before all ages of the Father according to the Godhead, and in these latter days, for us and for our salvation, born of the virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, according to the Manhood; one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten, to be acknowledged in two natures, inconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably; the distinction of natures being by no means taken away by the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved, and concurring in one Person and one Subsistence, not parted or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son, and only begotten, God the Word, the Lord Jesus Christ, as the prophets from the beginning have declared concerning him, and the Lord Jesus Christ himself has taught us, and the Creed of the holy Fathers [early church] has handed down to us.

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