1. Heaven and Hell.  We live in a universe controlled by God, in which virtue is rewarded and sin punished.  Hell isn’t a place but exists whenever and wherever people are separated from God … both now as well as in the hereafter.

2. Life Everlasting.  Jesus’ ultimate act of obedience – giving up his life – was a means of illustrating the extent of God’s desire to bring about reconciliation of all persons.  It was God’s action aimed at providing the opportunity for every person to come into a right relationship with God.  God raised Christ from the dead and the ultimate power of God was illustrated for all time.  Because Christ lives, believers will also have life everlasting.  For Presbyterians, the resurrection of the body refers to the reuniting of the spiritual body and the physical body.

3. The Holy Spirit is the presence of God in the world and in the believer.  God continues to be revealed to us today in many different ways, most of which are identified through experience rather than knowledge.  Both the experienced presence of God in our lives and the assumed activity of God in history are identified as the Holy Spirit.  The absolute and constant guiding force of God in our lives is a mystery which we identify as the activity of the Holy Spirit.

4. Priesthood of All Believers.  In the Presbyterian service of Holy Communion, the participants usually pass the bread and wine from person to person – a unique symbol of each person serving as priest (servant) to each other person.  We believe that each Christian has direct access to God through worship, prayer, personal confession, and the study of Scripture.

Thus, the creeds and confessions of this church reflect a particular stance within the history of God’s people. They are the result of prayer, thought, and experience within a living tradition. They serve to strengthen personal commitment and the life and witness of the community of believers.