The Holy Scriptures are the only sufficient, certain, and infallible standard of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience. The authority of the Holy Scriptures obligates belief in them. This authority does not depend on the testimony of any person or church but on God the author alone, who is truth itself. Therefore, the Scriptures are to be received because they are the Word of God.

The supreme judge for deciding all religious controversies and for evaluating all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, human teachings, and individual interpretations, and in whose judgment we are to rest, is nothing but the Holy Scripture, delivered by the Spirit. In this Scripture our faith finds its final word.

Salvation is by grace alone, by faith alone, through Jesus Christ alone, and for the Glory of God alone.

In God’s appointed and acceptable time, He is pleased to call, by His Word and Spirit, all who believe. He calls them out of their natural state of sin and death to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ.

He takes away their heart of stone and gives them a heart of flesh. He renews their wills and by His almighty power turns them to good. Yet He does all this in such a way that they come completely freely, since they are made willing by his grace.

Those who are united to Christ and regenerated have a new heart and a new spirit created in them through the power of Christ’s death and resurrection.

They are also further sanctified, really and personally, through the same power, by his Word and Spirit dwelling in them.

The dominion of the whole body of sin is destroyed, and the various evil desires that arise from it are more and more weakened and put to death. At the same time, those called and regenerated are more and more enlivened and strengthened in all saving graces so that they practice true holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

The Lord Jesus Christ is the head of the church. By the Father’s appointment, all authority is conferred on him in a supreme and sovereign manner to call, institute, order and govern the church.

In exercising the authority entrusted to him, the Lord Jesus, through the ministry of his Word, by his Spirit, calls to himself out of the world those who are given to him by his Father.

They are called so that they will live before him in all the ways of obedience that he prescribes for them in his Word.

Those who are called he commands to gather together in local churches, for their mutual edification and the fitting conduct of public worship that he requires of them while they are in the world.

Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ. To those baptized it is a sign of their fellowship with him in his death and resurrection, of their being grafted into him, of remission of sins, and of submitting themselves to God through Jesus Christ to live and walk in newness of life.

Those who personally profess repentance toward God and faith in and obedience to our Lord Jesus Christ are the only proper subjects of this ordinance.

Immersion, or dipping of the person in water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost is necessary for this ordinance to be administered properly.

The liberty Christ has purchased for believers under the gospel is found in their freedom from the guilt of sin, the condemning wrath of God, and the severity and curse of the law.

It also includes their deliverance from this present evil age, bondage to Satan, the dominion of sin, the suffering of afflictions, the fear and sting of death, the victory of the grave, and everlasting judgment.

In addition, it includes their free access to God and their obedience to him, not from slavish fear but from a childlike love and willing mind.

Those who use Christian liberty as an excuse to practice any sin or nurture any sinful desire pervert the main objective of the grace of the gospel to their own destruction, and they completely destroy the purpose of Christian liberty.

This purpose is that we, having been delivered from the hands of all our enemies, may serve the Lord without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our lives.