What We Believe
The Scriptures
2 Tim. 3:15-17; 2 Pet. 1:20-21, 3:15-16; 1 Cor. 2:13; John 14:26, 16:13, 17:17
~We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God and is inerrant in original writings.
~We believe that this divine inspiration extends equally to each word and all parts.
~We believe that all the Scriptures center on the Lord Jesus Christ, both the Old and New Testament, and are the believer’s sole authority.
~We believe that Scripture is to be taken in its natural and literal sense, recognizing the interpreter must not appeal to literary forms, which cast doubt on the reliability or the morality of the Divine Author of Scripture.
~We believe that all Scriptures were designed for our practical instruction and application.
God the Father, Jesus & The Holy Spirit
John 4:24; Deut. 6:4; Gen. 1:1; Col. 2:9; Heb 1:1-2; John 1:1, 14, 18, 8:58; Phil. 2:5-8; 1 Peter 2:24, 3:18; Matt. 28:19; 2 Cor. 13:14; Matt. 1:18-25; John 14:26, 15:26, 16:6-14, 1Cor. 14
~We believe there is only one living and true God existing in three equal persons with
distinct roles the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
~We believe that the members of the Godhead have the same nature and attributes and are
worthy of the same worship and honor.
~We believe that the Father is the source of all things and the one who sent the Son as His
gift into the world.
~We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, eternal and equal with the Father, born of
the Virgin Mary, and that He is both fully God and fully Man.
~We believe that Jesus Christ died for our sins according to Scriptures as a voluntary and
substitutionary sacrifice.
~We believe that Jesus Christ rose physically from the dead and ascended to the right hand
of the Father, where He is now ministering as our advocate and High Priest.
~We believe that Jesus Christ will receive us unto Himself at His second coming and will
return to establish His millennium kingdom on earth.
~We believe the Holy Spirit is a divine person who is co-equal with the Father and Son,
and that He was active in creation, convicts the world of sin, reveals Christ, and baptizes
all believers into the body of Christ at conversion along with His work of indwelling,
sealing, regenerating, empowering, and gifting.
~We believe that the sign gifts of the Holy Spirit were given to the early church for the
primary purpose of authenticating its ministry and that their present use can only be
justified when done in the way that is a sign to unbelievers, points solely to God, dispels
confusion, and reveals truth, and is understood clearly, as described in 1 Corinthians 14.
Man and Sin
Gen 1:26-27, 2:7; Romans 3:1-24; 5:12-14
~We believe that man is the product of the direct creative act of God, made in the image
and likeness of God.
~We believe in the sanctity of human life, which begins at the point of conception.
~We believe that all sexual relationships must pattern themselves after a faithful
heterosexual within marriage.
~We believe that man fell through sin, and, as a consequence, became dead in trespasses
and sins and became subject to the power of Satan.
~We believe that sin has been transmitted to the entire human race, so that every child of
Adam is born into the world with a fallen nature devoid of spiritual life and no power to
recover oneself from this condition.
Salvation
Eph. 2:1-8; Titus 3:5-6; Acts 16:31; John 3:3-7; 2 Cor. 5:17; 1 Pet. 1:23; 2 Peter 1:4
~We believe that salvation is entirely of God, by grace, through personal faith in the blood
of Christ, wholly apart from any human merit, works, or foreseen faith; that grace is a gift
offered to all mankind and salvation comes as we believe in what Christ has done for us
and accept this gift.
~We believe that salvation was chosen sovereignly by God before the foundation of the
earth as the way to have a personal relationship with Him and believers are enabled by
the Holy Spirit to believe.
~We believe that the divine nature and divine life are communicated to believers by a
supernatural work of the Spirit.
~We believe that believers are justified before God in that their sins were imputed to
Christ and His righteousness was reckoned to them.
~We believe that all believers were sanctified at the point of salvation and the believer is
progressively brought closer to conformity to the holiness of God, a process culminating
at the return of Christ.
~We believe that all who are truly born again will be kept by Christ and will persevere in
faith unto the day of redemption
The Church
2 Cor. 6:14; Matt. 7:15-16; Eph. 1:22-23, 4:11-12; 1 Cor. 11:23-28; Acts 2:41-42
~We believe that all who are united to the risen and ascended Son of God are members of
the church, which began at Pentecost.
~We believe that the local church is a congregation of immersed believers, associated in
the faith, stewardship of the gospel, and worship of God.
~We believe that the local church has the absolute right of self-government free from the
interference of any hierarchy of individuals or organizations.
~We believe that the ordinances of the church are baptism by immersion, as the identifying
symbol of one’s belief in Christ’s death and resurrection, and communion, which is a
commemoration of Christ’s death until He comes.
~We believe the church has the responsibility to take the gospel message to all nations of
the earth and to be a voice for justice and truth in the world.
We believe in separation from all sinful practices and spiritual apostasy.
Future Events
1 Thess. 4:13-18; 1 Cor. 15:22-24; Rev. 1:5-7, 19:11-16; 20:1-7; John 5:22; Romans 14:10-13; Rev. 21-22; John 14:1-3
~We believe in the imminent coming of Jesus Christ for His church prior to the tribulation
period at which time all church saints will be raised, glorified and rewarded.
~We believe that Christ will return at the end of the tribulation to set up the millennial
kingdom, to overthrow Satan, and to re-gather Israel to their promised land according to
Old Testament promises. ~We believe in the physical resurrection of all the dead: the saved to life eternal, the
unsaved to eternal judgment and separation from God in the lake of fire.
~We believe the eternal state will begin following the judgment of the lost with believers
of all time enjoying God forever.