Our statement of faith
1. The Holy Scriptures
We believe the Holy Scriptures to be the inspired Word of God, authoritative, inerrant, and
God-breathed in the original writings and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith
and practice (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21; Matthew 5:18; John 16:12-13).
2. The Godhead
We believe in one Triune God, existing in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
eternal in being, identical in nature, equal in power and glory, having the same attributes and
perfection though distinct in personality (Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:19-20; Mark
12:29; John 1:1-4; 2 Corinthians 13:14).
3. The Total Depravity of Man
We believe that man was created innocent, in the image and likeness of God, but that in
Adam's sin the race fell, inherited a sinful nature, became alienated from God, and thereby
incurred not only eventual physical death but immediate spiritual death and is, therefore,
totally unable to retrieve his lost condition (Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7, 6:5; Isaiah 64:6; John
5:40; Romans 3:22-23, 5:12; Ephesians 2:12; Hebrews 9:27-28).
4. Sovereignty
We believe that God, existing as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is sovereign and exercises supreme and absolute rule over all creation as a part of and consistent with the essence and attributes of deity (1 Chronicles 29:10-12; Daniel 4:35; Psalm 24:1; Ephesians1:11; 1 Timothy 6:15).
5. The Person and Work of Christ
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man, without ceasing to be God, having been conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful man; that He accomplished our redemption through His death on the cross as substitutionary sacrifice; that our redemption is made sure to us by His literal physical resurrection from the dead (Matthew 1:23; Luke 1:34; John 1:1-2, 14; Romans 3:24-25, 4:25; I Peter 1:3-5); that our Lord Jesus Christ is now in heaven, exalted at the right hand of God, where as the High Priest for His people He serves as the believers' intercessor, representative, and advocate (Hebrews 3:24, 7:25; Romans 8:34; 1 John 2:2).
6. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit is a person who convicts the world of sin, indwells all believers in this present age, baptizes them into the body of Christ, seals them unto the day of redemption, and that it is the duty and privilege of every believer to be filled with the Holy Spirit (Romans 6:8-13, 8:9; 1Corinthians 12:12-14; 1 Thessalonians 5:19).
7. Salvation and Eternal Security
We believe that salvation in every dispensation is a gift of God brought to man by grace and received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ who was made sin for us and shed His precious blood for the forgiveness of our sins (Leviticus 17:11; Ephesians 2:8-9; John 1:12; Ephesians 1:7; 1 Peter 3:18). Believers are kept secure forever through the perfect, finished, all-sufficient provisions of God for His people (Romans 8:1, 33-39; John 10:27-30; 1 Corinthians 1:4-8; Philippians 1:6; 2 Timothy 1:12; 1John 5:13).
8. The Church
We believe that the Church which is now the body and shall be the bride of Christ, is a spiritual organism composed of all of those and only those who are born again in this age (Ephesians 1:22-23, 5:25-27; I Corinthians 12:12-14).
9. Satan
We believe in the personality of Satan who is the open and declared enemy of God and Man (Job 1:6-12; Matthew 4:2-11; Isaiah 14:12-17; Revelation 20:1-3, 7-10).
10. The Blessed Hope
We believe that the next major event in fulfillment of prophecy will be the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in the air to receive to Himself the dead in Christ and believers who are alive at His coming, otherwise known as the Rapture and Translation of the Church (1 Corinthians 15:51-57; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Titus 2:11-14).
11. The Tribulation
We believe that the Rapture will be followed by the fulfillment of Israel's Seventieth (70th) week, the latter half of which is the time of Jacob's trouble, the Great Tribulation (Daniel 9:27; Jeremiah 30:7; Matthew 24:15-21; Revelation 6:1-17).
12. The Second Coming of Christ
We believe that the Great Tribulation will be climaxed by the (premillenial) return of the Lord Jesus Christ to earth to set up His Kingdom (Zechariah 14:4-11; Matthew 24:15-51; 1 Thessalonians 1:7-10; Revelation 20:6).
13. The Eternal State
We believe that the soul and spirit of those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ for Salvation do at death immediately pass into the Lord's presence and remain in conscious bliss. At the Lord's Coming the human soul and spirit will be reunited with a resurrection body to be with Him forever in glory: but the souls of unbelievers remain after death in conscient misery until the final judgment of the Great White Throne at the close of the millennium, when the soul and body reunite and shall be cast unto the lake of fire, not be annihilated, but to be punished with everlasting destruction away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power (Luke 16:19-26, 23:43; 1 Corinthians 15; 2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9; Jude 6,7; Revelation 20:11-15).
14. The Christian Life and Spirituality
We believe that all believers should seek to live in such a manner as not to bring reproach upon theirLord and Savior; that it is the privilege and responsibility of every believer to be a witness of the truths of Scripture and to seek to communicate the Gospel to the unsaved throughout the world (Acts 1:8); that it is the obligation of all believers to remember the work of the Lord in prayer and to support it with their means as the Lord has prospered and prompted them (1 Corinthians 16:2). Furthermore, we believe that spirituality is an absolute condition in the life of a believer in this dispensation wherein one is "filled" or controlled by the Holy Spirit and living in fellowship with Christ. We recognize a distinction between maturity and spirituality, that any believer, mature or young, becomes carnal through any act of mental, verbal, or overt sin; that spirituality or fellowship with Christ is restored by personal confessions of sin to the Father (John 15:7-8; 2 Corinthians 5:6; Galatians 5:16; Ephesians 5:18; Romans 6:11-13; 1 John 1:5-22; 1 Corinthians 11:30-31).
15. Spiritual Gifts
We believe that God the Holy Spirit in sovereignty and grace has given spiritual gifts to believers in this dispensation. We believe that temporary spiritual gifts ceased with the completion of the canon of Scripture; at the fulfillment of their purpose in the early church they phased out. These were: apostleship, prophecy, speaking in tongues, interpreting tongues, healing, and working of mirac1es (1Corinthians 12-13; Ephesians 4:7-12; Romans 12:4-8)
16. Church Ordinances
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ instituted the ordinances of Baptism by immersion and the Lord's Supper to be observed until His return (Matthew 28:19-20; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26).