What we believe...
We believe that the Bible is God's written revelation to man. It is verbally inspired in every word, and absolutely inerrant in the original documents. We believe in the infallibility, sufficiency, and sole authority of Scripture.
We believe there is but one Living and True God, an infinite, all-knowing Spirit, perfect in all His attributes, one in essence, eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Each possesses the nature and perfections of deity, as well as the characteristics of personality and each equally deserves worship and obedience.
We believe that God is the Creator of all things. We believe that God created individually the various groups of living beings, including mankind, as special acts of creation rather than through evolution. We believe that the first man, Adam, was created in the image of God. Adam sinned and though the image of God has not been lost, as a consequence all people are now born guilty before God and with a nature in rebellion against Him.
We believe that God the Son, the eternal Word, took human nature to Himself and was known as Jesus, the Messiah or Christ. We believe in His full deity, His virgin conception by the work of the Holy Spirit, His full humanity, His sinless life, His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father and in His personal return in power and glory. We believe Jesus is the promised Prophet, Priest, and King. As the Prophet, He revealed the mind of God in His teaching. As the great High Priest, He offered Himself once and for all as the only effective sacrifice for the sins of men, dying as an atonement which is both penal and substitutionary. He continues His priestly ministry as He intercedes for His people. As King, He began His reign as Messiah when He ascended into heaven after His death and bodily resurrection. He will return physically and visibly to reign on earth.
We believe in the full deity and the personality of the Holy Spirit. We believe that He bears witness to Jesus Christ through the Word of God, that He convicts people of sin, that He regenerates individuals, baptizing them into the Body of Christ, that He indwells, seals, fills, helps, and produces in believers the fruit of the Holy Spirit. We believe that the Holy Spirit sovereignly gives spiritual gifts to believers, though no one particular gift is given to every believer.
We believe in justification by grace alone through faith alone. Faith in Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation for all people. True believers in Jesus Christ cannot lose their salvation. We believe that all who put their faith in Jesus Christ are immediately placed by the Holy Spirit into one united spiritual Body, the Church, of which Christ is the Head. The purpose of the Church is to glorify God by building its members up in the faith, by instruction of the Word, by fellowship, by keeping the ordinances, and by advancing and communicating the Gospel to the entire world. the formation of the Church, the body of Christ, began on the Day of Pentecost and will be completed at the coming of Christ for His own at the rapture. We believe there will be a seven-year period in which God will pour out His wrath on the earth, after which Jesus Christ will return to earth to reign over the Millennial Kingdom. When all His enemies are put under His feet, He will hand over the Kingdom to the Father. We believe that the final state of those who have trusted in Jesus Christ will be eternal bliss in the presence of God and that the eternal state of those who have not trusted in Jesus Christ will be one of conscious suffering in hell.
We believe there is but one Living and True God, an infinite, all-knowing Spirit, perfect in all His attributes, one in essence, eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Each possesses the nature and perfections of deity, as well as the characteristics of personality and each equally deserves worship and obedience.
We believe that God is the Creator of all things. We believe that God created individually the various groups of living beings, including mankind, as special acts of creation rather than through evolution. We believe that the first man, Adam, was created in the image of God. Adam sinned and though the image of God has not been lost, as a consequence all people are now born guilty before God and with a nature in rebellion against Him.
We believe that God the Son, the eternal Word, took human nature to Himself and was known as Jesus, the Messiah or Christ. We believe in His full deity, His virgin conception by the work of the Holy Spirit, His full humanity, His sinless life, His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father and in His personal return in power and glory. We believe Jesus is the promised Prophet, Priest, and King. As the Prophet, He revealed the mind of God in His teaching. As the great High Priest, He offered Himself once and for all as the only effective sacrifice for the sins of men, dying as an atonement which is both penal and substitutionary. He continues His priestly ministry as He intercedes for His people. As King, He began His reign as Messiah when He ascended into heaven after His death and bodily resurrection. He will return physically and visibly to reign on earth.
We believe in the full deity and the personality of the Holy Spirit. We believe that He bears witness to Jesus Christ through the Word of God, that He convicts people of sin, that He regenerates individuals, baptizing them into the Body of Christ, that He indwells, seals, fills, helps, and produces in believers the fruit of the Holy Spirit. We believe that the Holy Spirit sovereignly gives spiritual gifts to believers, though no one particular gift is given to every believer.
We believe in justification by grace alone through faith alone. Faith in Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation for all people. True believers in Jesus Christ cannot lose their salvation. We believe that all who put their faith in Jesus Christ are immediately placed by the Holy Spirit into one united spiritual Body, the Church, of which Christ is the Head. The purpose of the Church is to glorify God by building its members up in the faith, by instruction of the Word, by fellowship, by keeping the ordinances, and by advancing and communicating the Gospel to the entire world. the formation of the Church, the body of Christ, began on the Day of Pentecost and will be completed at the coming of Christ for His own at the rapture. We believe there will be a seven-year period in which God will pour out His wrath on the earth, after which Jesus Christ will return to earth to reign over the Millennial Kingdom. When all His enemies are put under His feet, He will hand over the Kingdom to the Father. We believe that the final state of those who have trusted in Jesus Christ will be eternal bliss in the presence of God and that the eternal state of those who have not trusted in Jesus Christ will be one of conscious suffering in hell.