- We believe that the Bible is God’s written revelation to man and constitutes the only infallible, authoritative, and all-sufficient rule of faith and practice.
- We believe that the Word of God is objective, propositional revelation, verbally inspired in every word, absolutely inerrant in the original documents, and that Scripture affirms the belief that the opening chapters of Genesis present creation in six literal days, thereby refuting the theory of evolution.
- We believe that there is but one living and true God, perfect in all His attributes, one in essence, eternally existing in three Persons—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—each equally deserving worship and obedience.
- We believe in the deity and virgin birth of Jesus Christ, His incarnation and sacrificial death on the cross to redeem all who will believe on Him alone as Savior, His resurrection from the grave, His current role as sole mediator between God and man and His glorious second coming.
- We believe that all men are sinners by nature, by choice, and by divine declaration thus incurring upon themselves the penalty of spiritual and physical death—becoming subjects to the wrath of God—and have in themselves no power to save themselves apart from God’s grace through the redemptive work of our Lord Jesus Christ and the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit.
- We believe that salvation is wholly a supernatural work of divine grace accomplished by the power of the Holy Spirit through the instrumentality of the Word of God, and is an instantaneous transformation of the inner man and declaration of righteousness to all who, as result of divine regeneration, place their faith in Christ, repent of their sins, and confess Him as sovereign Lord. The genuineness of one’s salvation is then validated by the manifestation of fruits worthy of repentance as demonstrated in righteous character and conduct.
- We believe that all who place their faith in Jesus Christ are immediately placed by the Holy Spirit into one united spiritual body, the church, the bride of Christ, and that the purpose of the church is to glorify God by building itself up in the faith by the instruction of the Word, by keeping the ordinances, and by advancing and communicating the gospel to the entire world.
- We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men; the saved unto the resurrection of life and eternal glory and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment.
- On Biblical sexuality: We believe the biblical pattern of intimate sexual activities between one man and one woman, as created by God at birth, only within the bounds of marriage. CHET affirms that God creates each person as male and female as indicated by biology and is not a “fluid” situation, but is fixed at birth. This means that anything outside of this pattern falls outside of God’s design, and while healthy discussion is welcomed and encouraged, the promotion or visible practices of sexuality in CHET-related settings contrary to the above statement will be addressed.
