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Our Beliefs(Click on the links below)
- The Scriptures
- The Godhead
- The Person and work of God the Father
- The Person and work of Christ
- The Person and work of the Holy Spirit
- Salvation
- Angels and Satan
- Creation and the Fall
- Sanctification
- The Church
- The Ordinances
- Events of the End Times
We believe the Bible to be the verbally inspired Word of God, without error in the
original writings, and the supreme and final authority in doctrine and practice and is
made up of the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments.
2 Tim 3:16-17
2 Peter 1:21 John 17:17 Matt 5:18
We believe in one personal and infinite God eternally existing in three equal persons
(Father, Son and Holy Spirit) who have the same nature and attributes but who are distinct
in office and activity.
Matthew 28:19 2 Corinthians 13:14
We believe God the Father, with the Son and Holy Spirit, is the Creator of all things.
In His nature He is, among other things, completely holy, all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipresent,
eternal, just and loving. He is totally sovereign in all that has or shall come to pass.
As such, He is the author of election, through which He chooses a people for Himself.
He was the begetter and sender of His only Son, Jesus Christ. As the Father of the elect,
He is also their provider and disciplinarian.
Acts 17:29 Romans 11:25-29 1 John 1:5
John 3:16 Matt 3:17 Galatians 3:26 Ephesians 1:3-6
Matt 6:30-32 Psalm 139:1-18
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man without
ceasing to be God. He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary in order
that He might reveal God to man and redeem sinful man. We believe that He accomplished our
redemption through His death on the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice. We believe that our
redemption and salvation is guaranteed by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead.
John 1:1,14,18 Romans 3:24-26
Romans 4:25 Luke 1:35
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is now in heaven, exalted
at the right hand of God, where, as High Priest, He fulfills the ministry of intercession and
advocacy for His people.
Hebrews 1:3 Hebrews 3:1 Hebrews 7:23-25
1 John 2:1-2
We believe that God, the Holy Spirit, is the third person of the Trinity, and as such,
possesses intellect, emotion and will. He restrains evil in the world and convicts men of sin. He
also regenerates those who receive Christ as Savior, baptizing them at the moment of salvation into
the Church (the Body of Christ), indwells them permanently, seals them unto the day of redemption, bestows
on them spiritual gifts, and empowers those yielded to Him. It is the Spirit's ministry to lead, instruct
and fill (or control) believers as they are yielded to Him and are steadfast in the study of Scripture and
in prayer.
John 16:7-11 John 3:8 John 14:16-17
1 Cor 12:4-11 and 13 I Cor 2:10-11 Ephesians 4:30
Ephesians 5:18
We believe that every man is lost in sin apart from Christ and in need of a Savior. We believe
that salvation is a gift of God and is received by man only through personal faith in Jesus Christ. We
believe that man is justified by grace through faith alone, apart from works.
Acts 13:38-39 Romans 6:23 Ephesians 2:8-10
Romans 3:23-24
We believe that all true believers, once saved, are kept secure in Christ forever.
Romans 8:, 38-39 John 10:27-30
We believe that angels are spiritual beings who were created in a sinless state and that they
occupied different orders and ranks. They presently exist in both fallen and unfallen states, the former
includes Satan and his angels.
Hebrews 1:13-14 2 Peter 2:4 Revelation 7:12
We believe that Satan, by his own choice the enemy of God and of the people of God, is
the originator of sin. We believe he led our first parents into sin and now rules as the god of this
world. Satan was judged at the cross and ultimately he will be cast into the Lake of Fire for eternity.
Isaiah 14:12-14 Genesis 3:1-19 Hebrews 2:14
Revelation 20:10
We believe that all things in heaven and on earth were created by God and exist by His power and
for His glory.
Genesis 1:1 Colossians 1:16-17
We believe that man was created innocent and in the image and likeness of God but that he sinned,
bringing both physical and spiritual death to himself and to his posterity. We believe that man has
inherited a sinful nature, is alienated from God, is incapable of redeeming himself, and is in need of
salvation.
Genesis 1:27 Genesis 2:17 Genesis 3:19
Romans 3:10-12 Romans 5:12, 17-19
We believe that sanctification, which is a setting apart of an individual unto God, is positional,
progressive and ultimate:
Positionally, it is already complete, since the believer is in Christ and is set apart unto
God as Christ is set apart unto God.
Since the believer retains his sinful nature, however, there is need for progressive
sanctification (or spiritual growth) whereby the Christian matures in grace by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Ultimately that child of God will be sanctified when he is taken to be with Christ and becomes like Him.
John 17:17 2 Corinthians 3:18 Ephesians 5:25-27
1 Thessalonians 5:23 Hebrews 10:10, 14 Hebrews 12:23
1 John 3:2-3
We believe that the universal church, the Body and Bride of Christ, is a spiritual organism,
made up of all born-again persons of this age. We believe that the church began at Pentecost and that
a believer is placed into the church by the baptizing work of the Holy Spirit. We believe that the
church is distinct from Israel.
Ephesians 1:22-23 Ephesians 5:25-27 1 Corinthians
10:32 1 Corinthians 12:12-13 Acts 2:1-4 Acts
11:16-17 Romans 9-11
We believe that the local church may be organized in various ways, but should reflect
the principles of: (1) Submission to Jesus Christ as the One head of the Church, (2) Leadership by a
group of mature and gifted Christians, (3) Mutual ministry which involves every member equipped for
Christian service and evangelism, and (4) The authority of God's Word. The local church is an assembly
of professed believers in Jesus Christ who are voluntarily joined together in one locality for the purpose
of worship, study of the Word of God, observance of the ordinances, Christian fellowship, prayer and
impacting the community and the world with the love of Christ and His glorious Gospel.
Matt 28:18-20 Acts 2:42-47 Acts 20:17-28
Romans 12:3-11 Ephesians 1:21-22 Ephesians 4:11-13
Titus 1:5 1 Timothy 3:1-13 2 Timothy 3:16-17
We believe that Christ instituted the ordinances of water baptism and the Lord's Supper, which
are to be observed by believers until He returns.
Matthew 28:19-20 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
We believe that by water baptism a believer is publicly identified with his Savior in
His death, burial and resurrection, and that immersion is the scriptural mode (Acts 8:36-38). We believe
that the Lord's Supper is a memorial of Christ's death by which He established the New Covenant, the
elements being symbols of His body and blood. Every Christian has a right to partake of the elements of
the Lord's Supper, but participation should be preceded by solemn self-examination.
1 Corinthians 11:23-24 Luke 22:17-20
The Blessed Hope: We believe in the personal, imminent coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in
the air to receive to Himself all those, dead or alive, who belong to Him. This event, the rapture of
the Church, is the blessed hope for which we should be constantly looking.
John 14:1-3 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 1
Thessalonians 4:13-18 Titus 2:11-14
The Second Advent: After a time of tribulation, the Lord Jesus Christ will return
to the earth to establish His Millennial Kingdom, during which He will reign, Satan will be bound, Israel
will be restored, and the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord.
Isaiah 11:9 Ezekiel 37:21-28 Matthew 24:15-25
2 Tim 3:1-5 Revelation 20:1-3
The Eternal State: We believe that the spirits of believers in Jesus Christ in
this age pass immediately into His presence at death and there remain in conscious bliss until the
resurrection of the body at His coming for the church. At that time the spirit and the body shall be
reunited and shall be associated with Him forever in glory. We believe that the spirits of unbelievers
remain in conscious torment in Hades after death until the final judgment of the Great White Throne at the
close of the millennium. At that time spirit and body shall be reunited and shall be cast into the Lake
of Fire to endure eternal destruction and everlasting separation from the presence of the Lord.
Luke 16:19-26 Luke 20:9-19 Luke 23:43
2 Corinthians 5:8 Philippians 1:23 2 Thessalonians
1:7-9 Revelation 20:11-15
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