What We Believe

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1. The Holy Scriptures: We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, as originally written, were God-breathed, both verbally and in every part, were without error and therefore authoritative, and have been divinely preserved.

2. The Triune Godhead: We believe there is one, and only one, true and living God who exists as a Triune Godhead of three separate persons of deity - God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit- equal in every divine perfection, and of the same essence.

3. God the Father: We believe God the Father, the First Person of the Triune Godhead, is a spirit infinite, eternal and unchangeable in all of His being, wisdom, power, holiness, righteousness, justice, goodness and truth. He is the Source of all things and Sender of the Son.

4. God the Son: We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Second Person of the Triune Godhead and the eternal and preexistent Son of God who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin. He is equal with God the Father and is the Creator and Sustainer of the entire universe. He was without sin and in His death made a full and substitutionary (vicarious) atonement for our sins, dying as a voluntary substitute in the sinner’s place. He rose bodily from the dead on the third day and ascended into heaven where He now sits at the right hand of God the Father as our High Priest, Advocate and Intercessor who currently is interceding and preparing a place for all believers.

5. God the Holy Spirit: We believe that the Holy Spirit is the Third Person of the Triune Godhead who possesses all the attributes of personality and of deity. He is equal with the Father and the Son, and is of the same nature. He convicts unbelievers of sin, righteousness and judgment. He is the divine agent of the new birth as He baptizes new believers into the spiritual body of Christ which is Christ’s Church.

6. Creation: We believe the Genesis account of creation as being neither allegory nor myth, but a literal, sudden and historical account of the direct, immediate and supernatural creative acts of the Triune Godhead without any evolutionary process whatsoever. We hold that the creation days of Genesis One were six literal 24-hour days.

7. Mankind: We believe the Scriptures teach that mankind was created by a direct act of God and not from any previously existing form of life; and that all human beings are descended from the historical Adam and Eve, the first parents of the entire human race. By voluntary transgression Adam and Eve fell from their sinless state, in consequence of which all human beings are now sinners by nature and by choice.

8. Salvation: We believe the Scriptures teach that Christ died for sinners and that the salvation of sinners is divinely initiated, is wholly of God’s grace, and was accomplished solely through the substitutionary and atoning death of the Son of God. Salvation is totally apart from works and is based upon the sole condition of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. We teach that all who are truly saved, are kept by God’s power and are thus eternally secure in Christ.

9. The Church: We believe the Scriptures teach that the Church of Jesus Christ began at Pentecost and will be completed at the Rapture. It must be considered in two aspects: the universal Church and the local Church. The universal Church which is Christ’s spiritual body, is composed of the entire company of regenerate believers in Christ, whether Jew or Gentile, regardless of denominational affiliation or present position in heaven or on earth. The local Church is a congregation of redeemed and baptized believers who observe two symbolic ordinances, the Lord’s supper or communion and believer’s baptism by immersion.

10. Baptism and Communion: We believe the Scriptures teach that Christian baptism is an obedient act of the believer involving a single immersion in water in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This water baptism is a solemn and beautiful act whereby the believer publicly identifies himself or herself with the crucified, buried, and risen Savior, thus illustrating the believer’s death to sin and his resurrection to a new life. We believe that communion or the Lord’s Supper is the commemoration of Christ’s atoning death on the cross until He returns and should be preceded by solemn self-examination and confession of all known sin.