Doctrinal
Statement
THE SCRIPTURES:
We believe the Bible is the verbally inspired Word and Revelation of God
and therefore our only authority in matters of faith and practice. II
Timothy 3:16; II Peter 1:21.
THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST:
We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ; that He is very God
by whom and for whom all things were created. We believe in His virgin
birth; that He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and is God manifest in
the flesh. John 1:1-3; Hebrews 1:8; Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:16; Luke 1:31.
THE TRUE GOD:
We believe in one God eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son,
and the Holy Spirit. We believe that these persons have the same nature,
attributes and perfections. Jude 20, 21; Matthew 3:16-17; II Corinthians
13:14.
THE HOLY SPIRIT-
We believe that the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, that
He convicts the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment; and,
that He is the Supernatural Agent in regeneration, baptizing all believers
into the body of Christ, indwelling, and scaling them unto the day of
redemption. John 16:8-11; II Corinthians 3:6; I Corinthians 12:12-14;
Romans 8:9; Ephesians 1:13-14.
THE RESURRECTION
OF CHRIST:
We believe in the bodily resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, and in
His presence at the right hand of God as our Priest and Advocate. Matthew
28:1-10; I Corinthians 15:20; I John 2:1; Hebrews 7:25.
SIN AND THE
TOTAL DEPRAVITY:
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, and became
alienated from God; and that man is totally depraved, and of himself,
utterly unable to remedy his lost condition. We believe in the necessity
of regeneration through the Holy Spirit of God and faith in Jesus Christ.
Romans 3:22-23; 5:12; Genesis 1:26-27; Ephesians 2:1-3, 12; John 1:12;
3:3-7.
SALVATION:
We believe that salvation is the gift of God brought to man by grace and
received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, whose precious blood
was shed for the forgiveness of our sins. Ephesians 2:8-10; John 1:12;
Ephesians 1:7; I Peter 1:18-19.
BAPTISM AND
LORD'S SUPPER:
We believe that the believer's baptism by immersion is commanded by the
Lord and shall be practiced by the church. We believe that the communion
of the Lord's Supper is a privilege and responsibility intended only for
those who are believers in Christ. Matthew 28:19; Acts 2:41-42; Romans
6:4; I Corinthians 11:23-34.
THE RETURN
OF CHRIST:
We believe in the personal, imminent, pre-tribulation, and pre-millennial
coming of the Lord Jesus Christ for His redeemed ones (the rapture); and
in His subsequent return to earth, with His saints, to establish His millennial
kingdom (after the tribulation). I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Zechariah 14:4-11;
Revelation 19:11-16; 20:1-6; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; 5:9; Revelation 3:10.
SATAN:
We believe in the reality and personality of Satan, who is the author
of sin and the avowed enemy of God and man and that he shall eventually
be eternally punished in the lake of fire. Job 1:6-7; Isaiah 14:12-17;
Matthew 4:2-11; 25:41; Revelation 20:10.
SECURITY OF
THE BELIEVERS:
We believe that all of those who are born again are kept by the power
of God and are therefore secure in Christ forever. John 10:28-29; Philippians
1:6; I John 5:11-13.
ETERNAL STATE:
We believe in the bodily resurrection of the saved resulting in their
everlasting blessedness, and, in the bodily resurrection of the unsaved
after the millennium, resulting in their everlasting conscious punishment.
II Corinthians 5:1; II Timothy 1:12; Revelation 20:11-15.
