Our Articles of Faith

The following statements are a summary of our doctrinal position. Although we welcome students from outside our congregation, they must be in agreement with our statement of faith.

    1. We believe in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New testament to be the verbally inspired
        Word of God, wholly inerrant in the original writings, infallible, and God-breathed, the final
        authority for faith and life. We interpret the Bible literally. (The King James Version Bible is
        the only Bible used by all students and faculty of STCA for chapel services, for Bible
        instruction and for scripture memorization.)

    2. We believe in one God, eternally existing in the persons of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

    3. We believe in the Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, His sinless life, His
        miracles, His vicarious and atoning death through His blood, His bodily resurrection, His
        bodily ascension to the right hand of the Father, and we await His imminent return. We
        believe, according to the scripture, in the Pre-millenial return of the Lord Jesus Christ; that
        the second coming will be a literal, bodily, personal ppearance to the earth: that his coming
        for His bride, the church, precedes the tribulation and constitutes the blessed hope.

    4. We believe that all men are sinners by nature as well as by choice, and that our sin separates
         man from a Holy God.

    5. Because man is incapable of paying for his sins, he is in need of a Savior. We believe that
        Jesus paid our sin debt on the cross by becoming our substitute and dying for our sin. His
       atoning blood, substitutionary death, his literal, physical resurrection are all proofs of His
       authority and of His unique position as our Savior.

    6. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is the only way to eternal life and that He offers
         salvation to all who will receive it as a free gift. We believe that the Bible clearly states that
         salvation cannot be earned through works: baptism, benevolent deeds and church
        membership, but that we must come to Christ in faith in the finished work of the cross.

    7. We believe in the work of the Holy Spirit, third person of the Trinity. He works in the hearts
         of men to convict of sin, bringing forth righteousness and judgment and testifies of the Lord
        Jesus Christ. We believe the scriptures plainly teach that the Holy Spirit indwells and seals
        believers at the moment of their salvation and produces fruit in the lives of believers.