WHAT WE BELIEVE

THE BIBLE

We believe the absolute, sole, authoritative rule for faith and practice is the perfect, preserved word of God. (Psa. 12:6-7).

GOD

We believe in one God, existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (I John 5:7-8)

JESUS

We believe in the Deity of Jesus Christ, His conception by the Holy Spirit, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His death on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins, His bodily resurrection, His exaltation at God's right hand. (Matthew 1:20; II Corinthians 1:21; Ephesians 1:7; Luke 24:6, 39; I Timothy 2:5; John 1:1; John 1:14)

HOLY SPIRIT

We believe that the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, one with the Father and the Son, the indweller of every believer. (John 15:26, 27; John 14:7-11; Ephesians 1:13, 14)

MAN

We believe that God created man in His image and likeness in a state of innocency, but through temptation, he willingly transgressed, became dead in trespasses and sins. As a result, all men inherited a corrupt nature, are born in sin, and are under condemnation. (Genesis 1:26; Psalm 51:5; Romans 5:12)

SALVATION

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice; was buried; and arose again from the dead in His glorified body, ascended into heaven, and as our great High Priest and Advocate, He ever lives to make intercession for us; that all who believe on His name are justified on the grounds of His shed blood and receive the gift of eternal life by the grace of God. Nothing prevents the salvation of the greatest sinner but his own voluntary rejection of the gospel. (Ephesians 2:8, 9; Hebrews 7:24, 25; Isaiah 1:18; John 3:18)

ETERNAL SECURITY

We believe in the eternal security of the believer as part of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. (Jn. 10:28)

BLOOD

We believe the blood shed by Jesus Christ on the cross to be the only and all-sufficient remedy for the sin of man; that this blood alone makes an atonement for the soul. (Leviticus 17:11; Hebrews 9:22)

HELL

We believe in a literal, burning hell that God prepared for the Devil and his angels. (Luke 16:22-26)

HEAVEN

We believe in a literal place called heaven where the saved shall enjoy everlasting blessedness. (II Corinthians 5:8; John 14:1-3)

SATAN

We believe in the existence and operating power of a real and personal being opposed to all saints, and exalting himself against all that God is, has, and tries to accomplish. (I Peter 5:8, 9; James 4:7)

THE CHURCH

We believe that the local church is a congregation of baptized believers, instituted for the purpose of worship, service, and fellowship. It consists of all the blood-bought, born-again believers throughout the Church Age. This body of the redeemed collectively makes up the ultimate bride of Christ. (Acts 2:42; Ephesians 5:21-23)

BAPTISM

We believe that baptism by immersion for a believer in water in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is the Bible mode of baptism that testifies to the believer's faith. (Matthew 3:16; 28:19; Romans 6:4)

ORDINANCES

We believe the two ordinances of the church are:

  1. The Lord's Supper: whereby believers do show forth the Lord's death till He comes again. (The elements being unleavened bread and unfermented grape juice.) (I Corinthians 11:23-32)
  2. Baptism (see BAPTISM).

LAST THINGS

We believe in the imminent, dispensational, pretribulational, pre-millennial, return of Christ. The Lord could return for, and rapture out His Church at any given moment. The world will then enter into a seven year period of tribulation that will end with the battle of Armageddon and the Second Advent of Jesus Christ. He will come as "King of Kings” and "Lord of Lords," and establish His kingdom that will last for 1,000 years. The Lord will then judge the living and the dead at the Great White Throne Judgment (which is different from the Judgment Seat of Christ where the Lord judges the Church). After this, all the lost, Satan, death, and hell are cast into the Lake of Fire, while the Lord and His saints enter into the New Heavens and New Earth. (I Thessalonians 4:13-18; I Corinthians 15:51-58; Matthew 24:3-41; Revelation 19:11-21; 20:1-15; 21:1-6)