THE BIBLE 

We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God.  As originally written, it is God-breathed and is profitable for fully equipping the man of God.   We believe that scripture is the sole and sufficient authority for faith and practice, and that it is the supreme standard by which all human conduct, experiences, creeds and opinions should be tried.  

THE TRINITY 

We believe that there is one Triune God who eternally exists in three persons–Father, Son, and Holy Spirit–who are coequal, coeternal, and of one essence, yet having distinct personal functions. 

THE PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST

We believe Jesus Christ, the second person of the trinity, is the eternal Son of God and the virgin-born Son of Man who was conceived by the Holy Spirit.  In the incarnation He retained His absolute deity, being at the same time fully God and fully man, united without mixture, change, division, or separation in one person, forever. He was without sin as to nature, unable to sin in principle, and did not sin in fact. 

DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST 

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for the sins of the whole world as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice in the most absolute sense, the just for the unjust, and all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood.  We believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus from the grave and in His ascension to the Father’s right hand where He is now performing the intercessory aspect of His high priestly work and is an advocate for all believers.   

THE HOLY SPIRIT

We believe that the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, possessing all the distinctively divine attributes.  He convicts men of sin and regenerates the believing sinner.  He places believers into the body of Christ by His baptism at the point of salvation.  He seals each believer unto the day of redemption.  He indwells every believer, guides, instructs and empowers them for godly living and service.  He gives spiritual gifts to all believers to be used to serve and edify the church.  

CREATION AND FALL OF MAN 

We believe man was a product of direct creation according to the Genesis account and not evolution.  He was originally created in the image of God with a rational nature, great intelligence and moral responsibility to God for the purpose of glorifying God, enjoying God’s fellowship, and fulfilling God’s will and purpose on earth.  Man subsequently fell into sin by voluntary act of personal disobedience to the revealed will of God.  As a consequence man became subject to the wrath of God, inherently corrupt, and incapable of choosing or doing that which is acceptable to God apart from divine grace.  All human beings, with the exception of the Man Christ Jesus, are born with a sinful nature and are sinners in thought, word and deed.  Thus, he is hopelessly lost apart from the salvation which is in the Lord Jesus Christ.  

SALVATION 

We believe that all who put their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ alone as Savior, apart from works, are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God. 

ETERNAL SECURITY

We believe that the believer is eternally secure, and it is impossible for one born into the family of God ever to be lost. Once saved, he is kept saved forever because of the new birth brought about by the power of God, the indwelling and sealing of the Holy Spirit, and the intercession of Christ.  

CHURCH

We believe that the church, the Body of Christ is a new creation into which all believers are baptized individually by the Spirit of God from the day of Pentecost to the Rapture.  We also believe that the local expression of the Body of Christ is the local church which is a group of immersed believers organized to meet.  

MISSION OF CHURCH

We believe that the mission of the church to the world is to provide a witness through the life of the church, and to carry out the great commission in the world-wide proclamation of the gospel and the establishment of the local, indigenous, New Testament churches.  

HEAVEN & HELL 

We believe that to a believer to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord in conscious enjoyment of heavenly pleasure until the reuniting of soul and spirit to a glorious resurrected body.  We likewise believe in the resurrection of the lost unto eternal damnation.  

THINGS TO COME

We believe that the blessed hope of the church is the imminent coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in the air to rapture the Church; that after this event God shall pour His wrath upon an unbelieving world for seven years of tribulation, then Christ shall come down to earth with His saints to deliver Israel, judge the nations, and set up the millennial kingdom.