OUR BELIEFS
1. We believe the sixty-six books of the Bible to be the only inspired, authoritative Word of God, inerrant in the original manuscripts. (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21)
2. We believe that there is one God, the Creator, eternally existent in three Persons-Father, Son, and Holy Spirit-each having the same essence and attributes. (2 Corinthians 13:14; Matthew 28:19)
3. We believe that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man in indivisible union. We believe in His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His substitutionary atonement through His shed blood, His death and bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His future bodily return in power and glory. (John 1:1,14; Philippians 2:6-8; 1 Timothy 3:16; Revelation 19:11-16; 1 Corinthians 15:1-8)
4. We believe the Holy Spirit convicts of sin, regenerates, indwells, baptizes and seals all believers at the moment of their salvation, filling them as they yield to Him with the goal of conforming them to the image of Christ. (Titus 3:5; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 12:13; Ephesians 1:13, 5:18)
5. We believe that salvation is a gift of God and is received by man through faith alone in Jesus Christ and His sacrifice for sin. We believe that man is justified by grace through faith apart from works and that all true believers have eternal life. Repentance is a vital part of faith and not a separate and independent condition of salvation. (Ephesians 2:8-9; John 3:16; 1 John 5:10-13; Luke 24:45-47)
6. We believe that the true Church is composed of all such persons who through saving faith in Jesus Christ have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit and are united together in the Body of Christ of which He is the Head. (Colossians 1:18; Ephesians 1:22-23; 2:19-22)
7. We believe that water baptism and the Lord’s Supper are ordinances to be observed by the Church during the present age. They are, however, not to be regarded as means of salvation (Acts 8:12; 1 Corinthians 11:23-28)
8. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the dead, of the believer to everlasting glory in heaven with God and the unbeliever to judgment and everlasting conscious punishment in hell apart from God.
(2 Thessalonians 1:9; Revelation 22:3-5; 20:15; Daniel 12:2)
2. We believe that there is one God, the Creator, eternally existent in three Persons-Father, Son, and Holy Spirit-each having the same essence and attributes. (2 Corinthians 13:14; Matthew 28:19)
3. We believe that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man in indivisible union. We believe in His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His substitutionary atonement through His shed blood, His death and bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His future bodily return in power and glory. (John 1:1,14; Philippians 2:6-8; 1 Timothy 3:16; Revelation 19:11-16; 1 Corinthians 15:1-8)
4. We believe the Holy Spirit convicts of sin, regenerates, indwells, baptizes and seals all believers at the moment of their salvation, filling them as they yield to Him with the goal of conforming them to the image of Christ. (Titus 3:5; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 12:13; Ephesians 1:13, 5:18)
5. We believe that salvation is a gift of God and is received by man through faith alone in Jesus Christ and His sacrifice for sin. We believe that man is justified by grace through faith apart from works and that all true believers have eternal life. Repentance is a vital part of faith and not a separate and independent condition of salvation. (Ephesians 2:8-9; John 3:16; 1 John 5:10-13; Luke 24:45-47)
6. We believe that the true Church is composed of all such persons who through saving faith in Jesus Christ have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit and are united together in the Body of Christ of which He is the Head. (Colossians 1:18; Ephesians 1:22-23; 2:19-22)
7. We believe that water baptism and the Lord’s Supper are ordinances to be observed by the Church during the present age. They are, however, not to be regarded as means of salvation (Acts 8:12; 1 Corinthians 11:23-28)
8. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the dead, of the believer to everlasting glory in heaven with God and the unbeliever to judgment and everlasting conscious punishment in hell apart from God.
(2 Thessalonians 1:9; Revelation 22:3-5; 20:15; Daniel 12:2)