X. THE CHURCH 
We believe that the universal church is the body of Christ, manifest in local churches of which Christ is the only Head. The church is distinguished by her gospel message, her sacred ordinances—baptism and the Lord’s Supper, her discipline, her great mission, and, above all, by her love of God, and by her members’ love for one another and for the world.

X. THE RETURN OF CHRIST & THE RESURRECTION
We believe in the personal, glorious, and bodily return of our Lord Jesus Christ to judge the world and consummate his kingdom. We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the just (to eternal blessedness) and the unjust (to eternal punishment).

XI. HUMAN SEXUALITY & MARRIAGE
We believe God immutably creates each person as male or female. Rejecting one’s biological sex rejects God’s created design. We believe God designed marriage as a unique conjugal relationship joining one man and one woman in a single, exclusive, life-long union. God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman joined in marriage. We believe all forms of sexual immorality are sinful and offensive to God.

XII. SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE
We believe God endows all human life with inherent dignity at every stage of development, and it must be respected and protected from conception to natural death. Thus, the unjustified, intentional taking of human life before or after birth is sinful and offensive to God.