We Believe...
We believe in the Bible as the Divinely inspired Word of God inerrant in its original documents, the revelation of God’s mind and will to man, our infallible, all-sufficient guide for salvation and for Christian life. (2 Tim. 3:16-17; 2 Pet. 1:20-21)
We believe in one God, the Creator of all, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Gen 1:26, Acts 2:32-33, Matthew 28:19, 2 Cor. 13:14, Titus 3:4,5,6)
We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, that He is true God and true man begotten of the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, and that He has a perfect and sinless humanity. (John 1:1, Phil. 2:6; Matt. 1:23-25; 1 John 3:5)
We believe each member of the human race has a sin nature from Adam’s fall, and has no ability to save himself from eternal punishment by his own works. (Gen. 3; Rom. 3:23; Eph. 2:8-9)
We believe in the bodily resurrection (or changing, if living) of the saved at the rapture to be eternally with the Lord in his glory and presence (1 Thes. 4:17); and the bodily resurrection of the unsaved about 1000 years later into everlasting, conscious punishment in Hell. (Rev. 20:11-15)
We believe in the finished work of Christ on the Cross of Calvary, through which sacrifice Christ has effected complete and eternal redemption, God setting His approval on the work of Christ by raising Him bodily from among the dead, enthroned Him at His own right hand in Heaven, and that He is the Head of the Church, the Lord of the individual, the High Priest over the House of God and Advocate in the family of God. (1 Peter 1:3; 1 Cor. 1:18; Romans 3:25-26)
We believe in the immediate and eternal salvation of every person who truly believes on Christ and by faith rests on His finished work as the only righteous ground on which a Holy God can forgive sins. (Eph. 2:8)
We believe that all who by faith repent and accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior are born again by the Holy Spirit, indwelt and sealed by the Holy Spirit, baptized by the Holy Spirit into the Body of Christ, the Church, of which Jesus is the risen and ascended Head. (Romans 10:9, 1 Cor. 12:12-14, Col. 1:18)
We believe that the church began with the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost and is composed of all true believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. These believers are united to Him and to one another by the indwelling Holy Spirit. (Acts 2:1-3)
We believe that water baptism by immersion symbolizes and identifies the believer in the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. (Acts 2:38, Romans 6:3,4)
We believe that the early Church met together and “continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship and in breaking of bread, and in prayers” (Acts 2:42), which is also God’s pattern for the church today.
We believe in the personal, imminent, pretribulation, and premillennial coming of the Lord in the air to Rapture (catch up) the Church (1 Thes. 4:13-17), and
We believe in the revelation of Christ in glory at His Second Advent to the earth to establish His Kingdom on earth and to reign in righteousness. (Revelation 20:4)