1. We are in agreement with the statement of faith of the Alliance of Renewal Churches:
- God is One, revealed in the Scriptures as three persons, the Father, the source and creator of all, the Son, our Savior and Lord, and the Spirit, who calls us to faith and empowers us for effective service.
- Jesus Christ, true God and true Man, through His virgin birth, sinless life, sacrificial death on our behalf, and resurrection from the dead, offers eternal life to all who believe. We are justified by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, and the same grace that saves also empowers for victorious living.
- The whole human race has fallen and cannot be rescued from bondage to sin and to Satan without Christ.
- The Word of God, the Bible, is true, and we can therefore trust in it without reservation. We accept all the canonical books of the Old and New Testaments as a whole and in all their parts as the divinely inspired and revealed Word of God and joyfully submit to it as the only infallible authority in all matters of life and faith.
- The Church is composed of all those who have been born of the Spirit by believing in the sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Church is the Body of Christ, with Jesus Christ as the Head. We purpose to submit to Christ's headship in all things.
- Baptism unites us with Christ's death and resurrection and the Lord's Supper gives us fellowship with the living Christ in His true body and blood.
- The local congregation consists of true believers, submitted to Christ, and carrying out His ministry and mandates in the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit. Pastors help equip the members to do the ministry. The Holy Spirit gives gifts to all members of the Church to do the supernatural ministry of Christ until He returns. Christ will return for His Bride, the Church, and true believers will live forever with Christ, while unbelievers will be sent to eternal punishment.
- The ecumenical creeds (the Apostles', Nicene, and Athanasian) are true declarations of the faith we affirm.
- How we live affirms or denies what we profess. We do not want to deny the Gospel by wrong living. We adorn our creed with our conduct.
- Right relationships are as necessary as right theology. We will not invalidate sound doctrine by unsound attitudes and actions toward others.
2. We are Missional:
- We believe that churches and Christians should be faithful to the content of God's self-revelation as recorded in the Bible (Jude 3).
- We believe that churches and Christians should continually reform their ministry methods to most effectively reach the changing cultures(s) to which they are sent by God as missionaries (1 Corinthians 9:19-23).
- We believe that Christians and churches exist for the redemption of both people and cultures in an effort to have everyone and everything transformed by God.
- We believe that the continual planting of new churches is part of God's plan to reach new peoples, new cultures, and new subcultures.
- We believe that the arts are to be engaged and enjoyed. Creativity is the first major attribute of God that the Bible shows us, and we would do well to find creative ways to worship and express ourselves to Him.
What does Immersion believe about secondary issues? There are certain issues about which committed believers may disagree. Issues such as mode of baptism, operation of spiritual gifts, forms of church government, worship style, and eschatological distinctions are points of discussion and cordial debate but not division in Immersion. This means that, while varying leaders in Immersion may have strong opinions on various secondary matters, we seek to discuss these differences in a way that honors the biblical commands to love one another so that people are both informed and edified as Jesus has prayed for us in John 17. Immersion's desire is to deepen our love of Jesus and bring others into a right relationship with Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit to the glory of God the Father.