What We Believe

WE BELIEVE that the Bible, comprised of 66 books of the Old and New testaments in their original autographs, were verbally inspired by the Spirit of God and therefore are wholly without error. We believe the Bible is supreme revelation of God's will and message for man and is the final authority of faith and practice (Proverbs 30:5,6; 2 Timothy 3:16,17; Hebrews 1:1-4; 2 Peter 1:19-21; Revelation 22:18, 19).

WE BELIEVE that there is but one God, Creator, Preserver and Ruler of all things. Who is perfect in holiness, in love, infinite wisdom and measureless in power, and Who reveals Himself to us as Father, Son and Holy Spirit (Deuteronomy 6:4, 5; I Corinthians 29:11, 12; Nehemiah 9:6; Matthew 28:19, 20; I Corinthians 8:5, 6; II Corinthians 13:14, Colossians 1:16, 17; I John 5:7).

WE BELIEVE that Jesus Christ is the second Person of the Triune God Who became man without ceasing to be God, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, and that He is true God and true man and is the only sufficient Mediator between God and Man (Luke 1:35; John 1:1-4; I Timothy 2:5, 6).

WE BELIEVE in the absolute deity and personality of the Holy Spirit Who convinces the unbeliever of sin, righteousness, and judgement. The Holy Spirit regenerates, sanctifies, illuminates, guides, comforts, seals baptizes, indwells and desires to fill (control) all those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as personal Savior and Lord (John 3:3, 6, 7; 14:16, 17,26; 16:8-11; Romans 8:14-17; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 4:30; 5:18: 2 Thessalonians 2:13,14). We do not believe That the so called sign gifts are the norm for today. They were used during the early church age to establish the authority of the early Church leaders and The Word of God. We believe this was put to rest with the completion of the cannon of Scripture. 1 Corinthians 13:8-10, Hebrews 1:1-2.

WE BELIEVE that man was divinely created in the image of God by direct creation; that man sinned, incurring both spiritual and physical death resulting in total depravity; thus, we believe that all human beings are born with a sinful nature and are sinners in thought, word, and deed (Genesis 1-3; Psalm 51:5; Isaiah 53:6; Romans 3:10-18, 23; 5:12-19; Ephesians 2:1-3).

WE BELIEVE the Scriptures teach that salvation of sinners is wholly of God's grace through the mediator’s work of the Lord Jesus Christ; it is wholly apart from man's works, and is upon the sole condition of repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; that in order to be saved, the sinner must repent of sin and be born again, being regenerated by the Person and power of the Holy Spirit and thus becoming a recipient of a new nature called the Divine nature. We believe that justification of the sinner includes pardon of sin and the imputing of Divine righteousness and sanctification solely through faith in the Redeemer's shed blood, secure eternally in Jesus Christ (John 3:3-16; 10:27-29; Acts 4:12; 1 Corinthians 15:3,4; Ephesians 2:8-10; Colossians 1:14; 1 Timothy 2:5,6; Titus 3:5-7; Hebrews 9:22; 1 Peter 1:5, 18, 19; 2 Peter 1:4).

WE BELIEVE in the resurrection of the crucified body of the Lord Jesus Christ; in His ascension into heaven; and in His present office as High Priest and Advocate (Matthews 28:6, 7; Luke 24:51; Acts 1:9-11; Romans 8:34; 1 John 2:1, 2).

WE BELIEVE in that 'Blessed Hope,' the personal, imminent, pretribulation and premillennial return of Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for His redeemed ones; and in His subsequent return to the earth with the Church (His Bride) to establish his Millennial Kingdom on earth and to rule and reign over it (Zechariah 14:3-11; John 14:2,3; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 2 Timothy 2:11-13; Titus 2:11-14; Revelation 19:11-16; 20:1-6).

WE BELIEVE that all people have eternal life, it is a matter of where it will be spent. The bodily resurrection of the just, and the bodily resurrection of the unjust; the just to everlasting life, and the unjust to everlasting punishment; a literal Heaven and a literal Hell. We believe that the soul of the redeemed is, at death, absent from the body and present with the Lord in conscious bliss awaiting the first resurrection. We believe that the soul of the lost remains, after death, in conscious, misery until the second resurrection, to appear before the Great White Throne Judgement and shall be cast into the Lake of Fire to suffer everlasting conscious punishment (Matthew 25:31-46; Mark 9:47, 48; Luke 16:19-26; John 5:24-29; Acts 24:14,15; 1 Corinthians 15:20-24, 51-57; 2 Corinthians 5:6-10; Philippians 3:20, 21; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10; Jude 6, 7; Revelation 20:4-6, 11-15, 21:8).

WE BELIEVE that the Church, which is the Body and Bride of Christ, is a spiritual organism made of born again persons who are called into a life of separation from worldly and sinful practices that will bring reproach upon the person of Christ and cause others to stumble. We believe the local Church is a sovereign, independent body, exercising its own divinely awarded gifts, precepts and privileges under the Lordship of Jesus Christ, the Head of the Church (Acts 2:41-42, 46,47; 14:27; 20:20; Romans 12:1, 2; 1 Corinthians 6:19, 20; 12:12-14; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 1:22, 23; 5:25-27; Colossians 3:1-3, 17; 1 Thessalonians 5:22; 1 John 2:15, 17).