Beliefs

What We Believe

We believe that the Bible to the verbally inspired Word of God, His Revelation to man, inerrant in the original writings and that it is therefore the supreme and final authority in all matters of doctrine, faith and life.

(II Timothy 3:16-17)

We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

(Matthew 28:19)

We believe Jesus Christ ever existed with the Father and Holy Spirit and that in His incarnation was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary and is true God and true man.

(John 1:1-19; I Timothy 3:16)

We believe that man was created in the image of God; that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death, but also spiritual death which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, are totally depraved and for those who reach moral responsibility become sinners in thought, word and deed and that they must be born-again to be accepted of God. (Romans 5:12, 3:10, 3:23; John 3:1-21)

We believe that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a representative and a substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are saved on the grounds of His shed blood. We believe that he arose bodily from the dead on the third day in the same body in which He suffered and died.  We also believe that our Lord ascended into Heaven; that He is now seated at the right hand of the Father and is our High Priest and Divine Advocate with the Father. We believe that by His finished work of the Cross and His unceasing ministry of intercession in Glory, that Jesus Christ has procured for every believer Eternal Redemption, Eternal Salvation, and Everlasting Life.

(I Corinthians 15:3; Romans 5:9, I Corinthians 15:4; John 20:2, Mark 16:19; Hebrews 8:1; 7:25; I John 2:1; Hebrews 9:12; 5:9; John 3:16)

We believe that the Holy Spirit is a person, that He convicts the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment, that He regenerates the sinner by the Word of God, that He permanently indwells the Church, and the body of each believer, that He seals, enlightens, instructs, and guides every born-again person, and that he is the sufficient power for godly living, Christian service, and spiritual worship.

(John 16, 15; John 3:5-7, I Peter 1:23; Ephesians 4:30; John 14:16, 17, 26)

We believe that the church of Jesus Christ was begun at Pentecost when the Holy Spirit descended from Heaven and came into the Church; that it is composed solely of born-again people who have been called out from among the Jews and Gentiles to become the Body and Bride of our Lord.  Christ glorified in Heaven is its Head and the Holy Spirit on earth is the active agent of the God-Head who ever seeks to bring about within its rank conformity and obedience to the Word of God and the Will of God. The one body unites believers to each other, and all to Christ; and its chief purpose of existence is to proclaim the Gospel to the world.

(Acts 2; Acts 1:8; Acts 15:14; Romans 1:16; Ephesians 5:23-24)

We believe that the ordinances of the New Testament Church are significant above any other that Christians are commanded to observe. While recognizing that Water Baptism has no saving merit it is our conviction that after one is saved, Baptism is the next step in order to portray to the world the believer’s union with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection.  It is our conviction that the scriptural method of Water Baptism is by complete immersion.  We believe that Jesus Christ instituted the Lord’s Supper to commemorate His death till He comes.  We further believe that Water Baptism by immersion is observed but once, and is a sign of identification, and a testimony to newness of life, but the Lord’s Supper is commemorative and is to be observed often as a memorial of the Broken Body and the Shed Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.  The ordinances of the Church shall be observed at least quarterly at the direction of the Pastor and Elders.

(Matthew 28:19; 3:13-17; I Corinthians 11:23-33; Acts 8:31-38)

We believe in the blessed hope, the personal, pre-millennial, pre-tribulation, and imminent return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, which is known as the Rapture of the Church. We also believe in the personal, visible and glorious return of Christ to the earth with His Saints at the end of the Great tribulation.  This phase of His coming is known as the Revelation of Jesus Christ. When He returns to earth with His Saints, we believe that Jesus Christ will establish His millennial kingdom and will reign for one thousand years.

(Titus 2:13; I Thessalonians 4:13-17; John 14:3; Revelation 19:11-21; 20:1-6)

We believe that “the gifts and calling of God are without repentance”, and therefore His covenant people, Israel, now blind and scattered, shall be redeemed and regathered to the Land of Promise which is commonly known as Palestine; and under the personal and millennial reign of Christ upon David’s throne in Jerusalem, shall become the head of the nations and the Gentiles shall come to their light and kings to the brightness of their risings.”

(Romans 11:25-29; Psalm 72; Isaiah 60:3)

We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just at the Rapture; (I Thessalonians 4:16; I Corinthians 15:51-57) and of the unjust at the end of time. (Revelation 20:11-15; John 5:28-29)

We believe in a Heaven and a Hell; Heaven the place of eternal conscious joy for all who receive Jesus Christ as their personal Savior; Hell the place of conscious punishment for all who reject Jesus Christ and those dying in their sin until the final judgment at which time death and hell are cast into the Lake of Fire which is the place of eternal conscious punishment.

(John 14:1-6; Psalm 16:11; Philippians 1:21, 23; Psalm 9:17; John 8:2; l Thessalonians 1:7-9; Revelation 20:10-15)

We believe that Satan is a personal being, a fallen angel, prince of demons, the god of this age, the great enticer and deceiver, the adversary of Christ and His people, the accuser of the brethren, whose end is the Lake of Fire.

(Isaiah 14:12-15; Ezekiel 20:12-19; II Corinthians 4:3-4; I Peter 5:8; Revelation 12:9-10; Matthew 25:41; Revelation 20:10)

We believe that salvation is the gift of God brought to men by grace and received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, whose precious blood was shed on Calvary for the forgiveness of our sins.

(Ephesians 2:8-10; John 1:12; Ephesians 1:7; I Peter 1:18-19)

We believe that it is the privilege of believers to rejoice in the assurance of their salvation through the testimony of God’s Word; which, however, clearly forbids the use of Christian’s liberty as an occasion to the flesh.

(Romans 13:13-14; Galatians 5:13; Titus 2:11-15)

We believe that every saved person possesses two natures with provisions made for victory of the new nature over the old nature through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit; and, that all claims to the eradication of the old nature in this life are unscriptural.

(Romans 6:13; 8:12-13; Galatians 5:16-25; Ephesians 4:22-24; Colossians 3:10; I Peter 1:14-16; I John 3:5-9)

We believe the grace of God to be sufficient for the maintenance of a godly walk and that Christ and not the law is the believer’s rule of life.

(Galatians 3:11; 2:16; Romans 3:28; Romans 3:19-20; 11:6 I John 1:9)

We believe that the Scriptures clearly teach non-conformity to the world for every believer; that born again people should be separated from the world unto Christ; that it is clearly commanded of God to all believers to live lives of separation from all worldly and sinful practices and to be holy as He is holy. We believe that positional sanctification occurs at the moment of regeneration and that practical sanctification is to be progressive throughout the entire life span of a believer here on earth. God’s provision for holy living is in the believer’s identification with Christ in His death, resurrection and ascension; the indwelling person and power of the Holy Spirit and the believer’s yielding to Him; and by the powerful Word of God. 

(Colossians 3:1-8; II Corinthians 6:14-17; 3:18; 7:1; Titus 2:14; I Peter 1:14-16; Colossians 1:13; Hebrews 10:1,14; II Peter 3:18; Romans 6:1-141 Ephesians 1:15-2:6;  Ephesians 5:25-27; John 17:17; Hebrews 4:12; I Corinthians 6:19-20; Galatians 5:16-20

We believe that God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human society. A family is composed of persons related to one another by marriage, blood, or adoption. The Bible defines marriage as the unique one-flesh relationship between one man and one woman created by a covenant that lasts until death. God designed the marriage relationship for the purposes of procreation, companionship, sexual purity, and to picture the mystical relationship between Christ and His Church. The Bible clearly teaches that all sexual relationships outside of marriage are sinful and condemned by God. The Scriptures teach that the wife’s role in marriage is to submit to her husband’s leadership, while the husband’s role is to love his wife as Christ loved the Church. The Bible teaches that children are a special blessing from God. However, because all children are born sinners, they must be brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Children are to honor and obey their parents.

(Genesis 1:26-28; 2:24; Exodus 20:12; Malachi 2:14; Genesis 2:18; I Corinthians 7:1-5; Ephesians 5:22-33; Romans 1:24-32; Ephesians 5:22-24; Psalm 127; Ephesians 6:1-4)