What We Believe

I. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God (II Timothy 3:16-17, II Peter 1:21),

 

II. The Godhead eternally exists in three persons (II Cor. 13:14); the Father (Heb. 1:1), the Son
(Heb. 1:2), and the Holy Spirit (Acts 5:3-4).

 

III. Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God (Col.1:15), took upon Him our nature (Phil. 2:
5-8), being conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary (Matt. 1:18-25).

 

IV. The Holy Spirit, not as an influence, but as a divine Person, is the source and power of all
acceptable worship and service (Acts 1:8), is our abiding Comforter and Helper (Jn. 14:16-17).

 

V. Man is created in the image of God (Gen. 1:26), but due to the sin of Adam, not is born into
sin, endowed with the sinful nature described as the total depravity of man.

 

VI. The total depravity of man means that mankind is dead spiritually, and cannot enter the
Kingdom of God unless born again (Jn. 3:5-7), having a new nature imparted from above, a new
life implanted by the Holy Spirit (Titus 3:5).

 

VII. Redemption has been accomplished solely by the blood (Lev. 17:11) of our Lord Jesus
Christ (Matt. 26:28), who was made to be sin (Rom. 5:6).

 

IX. Christ is received by faith alone (Rom. 5:1), and that the moment we trust in Him as Savior,
we pass out of death into everlasting life (Jn. 5:24), being justified from all things (Acts 13:39).

 

X. It is the privilege of all who are born again by the Spirit, through faith in Christ, as revealed
in the Scriptures, to be secure in their salvation (Lk 10:20; 12:32; II Cor. 5:1, 6, 8, II Tim. 1:12).

 

XI. The believers standing in Christ is perfect and eternally changeless.

 

XII. Water baptism is the believer’s testimony to the oneness with Christ in death and
resurrection. Baptism is the immersion of the believer’s body in water and an emergence from
the water. (Matt. 3:16; Mark 1:5:11, Acts 8:12, 36-39).

 

XIII. The Lord’s Supper is the believer’s testimony that his soul is living day by day upon the
crucified Christ, and is a communion of the members of the body of Christ. (Matt. 26-26-29, I
Cor. 11:20-24)

 

XIV. God created an innumerable company of angels; that one – “Lucifer, Son of the Morning”
– sinned through pride, thereby becoming Satan (Ezek. 28:11-19; Isa. 14: 12-17); that a great
company of the angels followed him in his moral fall, became demons and are active as his
agents and associates in the prosecution of his unholy purposes.

 

XV. According to the Word of God the next great event in the fulfillment of prophecy will be the
coming of Christ in the air (Phil. 3:20), to receive to Himself (John 14:1-3), both His own who
are alive and remain until His coming and also all who have fallen asleep in Jesus (I Cor.15:51-
52; I Thess. 4:13-18); and that this is the Blessed Hope (Titus 2:11-14).

 

XVI. Following the period of the Great Tribulation on earth the Lord Jesus Christ will return as
He went – in Person, on the clouds of heaven, with power and great joy – to introduce the
millennial age, to restore Israel to her land, and to give her the realization of God’s covenant
promises (Acts 15:15-17, Ezek. 37:21-28; Rom, 11:25-27).

 

XVII. We believe in a literal heaven where individual go upon death that have a relationship
with God through the Lord Jesus Christ. We also believe in a literal hell where those who have
died go who did not have a relationship with God.

 

XVIII. The Scriptures are clear that sex is intended for marriage alone and that chastity is the
expectation for the unmarried (1 Cor. 6:15-20) and fidelity is the expectation for the married
(Heb. 13:4). The Scriptures are clear that marriage is to be between one man and one woman
(Gen. 2:24; Matt. 19:4-6; Eph. 5:31) and that pre-marital sex, adultery, homosexual acts, and all
other sexual relations outside the bounds of marriage are forbidden as sin (1 Cor. 6:9; Rom.
1:21-27; Gal. 5:19-21; Eph. 5:3; 1 Thess. 4:3-8). A civil government’s sanction of a union should
only be recognized as a legitimate marriage to the extent that it is consistent with the definition
of “marriage” found in the word of God.

 

XIX. Marriage is the institution God created—between one man and one woman—to picture the
relationship of Christ with the Church (Gen. 2:4-25; Matt. 19:4-6; Eph. 5:21-33). When asked
about divorce, Jesus was clear regarding the permanency of marriage saying, “what God has
joined together, let man not separate” (Matt. 19:6). Divorce is the result of sinfulness (on the
part of one or both parties in the marriage) and is itself sinful (Matt. 5:31-32; Mark 10:11; Luke
16:18). Jesus allows for divorce in the case where one partner in a marriage is sexually unfaithful
(Matt. 5:32; 19:9). Paul allows for divorce in the case where an unbelieving spouse abandons the
believing spouse (1 Cor. 7:10-16).