We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ instituted the ordinances of water baptism and the Lord's Supper to be observed by the Church. Water baptism is to be by single immersion and in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It pictures in a beautiful and solemn way our faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Savior, with its effects in our life of death to sin and resurrection to a new life. We believe that human life begins at conception and that the unborn child is a living human being.
Abortion constitutes the unjustified and enexcused taking of human life and is murder.
We reject any teaching that abortions of pregnancies due to rape, incest, birth defects, gender selection, birth or population control, the mental well-being of the mother or the unborn child, or any other reason is acceptable according to the Word of God. We believe that God created intimate sexual activity as a beautiful expression of love between husband and wife. We believe also that sexual activity outside the marriage covenant between a husband and wife is declared to be sinful by the Word of God. We further believe that any form of homosexuality, bisexuality, bestiality, incest, fornication, adultery, or pornography is a sinful perversion of God s gift of sexual intimacy.