What We Believe

We believe both Old and New Testaments to be the inspired Word of God, infallible, God-breathed, inerrant in the original writings, and the supreme and final authority of faith and practice.

We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), identical in nature, equal in power and glory, and possessing the same attributes and perfections.

We believe that man was created 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 is and shall remain essentially and unchangeably depraved apart from divine grace.

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man without ceasing to be God in order that He might reveal God, fulfill prophecy, and redeem man. To this end, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, thus receiving a human body and a sinless nature.

We believe that He accomplished our redemption through His death on the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice and that this redemption is ensured by His actual resurrection from among the dead. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is now in heaven, exalted at the right hand of God, where He now fulfills His High Priestly ministry as Representative, Intercessor, and Advocate for His people.

We believe that the Holy Spirit is the Third Person of the Trinity who convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. He also, in this present age regenerates believers in Christ, baptizes them into the church, the body of Christ, indwells them permanently, seals them unto the day of redemption, bestows spiritual gifts upon each one, and fills those who are dependent upon Him.

We believe that salvation is the gift of God, brought to man by grace, and received through personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, whose precious blood was shed to forgive our sins.

We believe the Scriptures teach that regeneration, or the new birth, is that change wrought in the soul by the Holy Spirit, by which a new nature and spiritual life not before possessed are imparted, and the person becomes a new creation in Christ Jesus.

We believe that all who truly receive Christ as Savior are kept by the power of God secure forever and shall never perish, this being vouchsafed by the sealing ministry of the Holy Spirit.

We believe that the church, which had its beginnings on the day of Pentecost, is the body and bride of Christ and is a spiritual organism made up of all born-again persons, irrespective of their affiliation with Christian organizations.

We believe that it is the responsibility of each believer, as a member of this spiritual organism, to affiliate with a local organization as a testimony of his relationship to Christ, for his own edification and growth, for fellowship with others of like-mind, and to further the evangelization of the lost.

We believe that Jesus Christ is the Lord and Head of the church and that every local church has the right under Christ to decide and govern its own affairs.

We believe that Satan is a person who is the declared enemy of both God and man; he is the Devil, the Evil One, and the accuser of the brethren.

We believe in the personal, imminent return of the Lord Jesus Christ in the air (pretribulation rapture of the church) to take His church to be forever with Himself to share His glory. This blessed hope set before us in Scripture involves the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the translation of those of His own who are alive and remain unto His coming. Before entering an eternal state of glory, we believe Jesus will rule for a literal 1000-year period upon the earth (a premillennial view of eschatology)

We believe in the resurrection of the dead, life hereafter, and the association of the faithful with Christ everlasting.

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ instituted the ordinances of water baptism and the Lord’s Supper to be observed until His return, not as a means of obtaining salvation but as evidence of obedience.