Our Statement of Faith

1. BIBLE

-We believe the Bible to be the complete Word of God:
-That the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments as originally written were verbally inspired by the Holy Spirit of God,
-That the original manuscripts as verbally inspired scripture were free from all error,
-That the Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and practice
2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:15-21

2. GOD

-We believe in one God, Creator of all, holy, sovereign, eternal, existing in three equal Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
1 Timothy 1:17; Mark 12:29

3. CHRIST

-We believe in the absolute and essential deity (fully God) of our Lord Jesus Christ:
-in His eternal existence with the Father in pre-incarnate (before coming in the flesh) glory;
-in His work of creation;
-in His virgin birth, sinless life, substitutionary (in place of man as sinner) death and bodily resurrection;
-in His triumphant ascension, mediatorial ministry and personal return.
Hebrews 1:1-3; Colossians 1:15-19; Acts 1:11; 1 John 2:1; Rev. 20:1-3; 7-10

4. THE HOLY SPIRIT

-We believe in the absolute and essential deity (fully God), and in the personality of the holy Spirit; -who convinces of sin, of righteousness and of judgement; -who regenerates (act of God giving new life), indwells, seals (preserves), sanctifies, illuminates and comforts those who believe in Jesus Christ; -who baptizes (spiritual baptism) believers at conversion into the Body of Christ and gives to them His gifts soverignly as He wills and fills those yielded to Him. John 16: 7-14; John 14: 16, 17, 26; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Romans 6:3-11; Ephesians 5:18; 1 Corinthians 6:11

5. SATAN

-We believe that Satan with all heavenly beings was created by God:
-that through rebellion, he and many other angels fell from heaven;
-that he now exists as an evil personality, the originator of sin, the god of this world, and the arch-enemy of God and man;
-that he and his demon hosts are destined to final and eternal defeat.
Isaiah 14:12-15; Ephesians 6:12; Revelation 20:10

6. CREATION

-We believe that, God brought into existence by His creative command, all visible and invisible life and matter;
-that He ordered all earthly life to reproduce only after their kind;
-that by Christ, He perpetually sustains His creation.
That the biblical account is neither allegory nor myth, but a literal, historical account of the direct, immediate creative acts of God and not form previously existing life form.
(Colossians 1:16-17; Exodus 20: 11; Psalm 33: 6-9; Genesis 1:24)

7. MANKIND

We believe that Adam was divinely created in the image of God:
-that by the sin of disobedience he fell from that state;
that all his posterity inherited spiritual depravity and defilement;
-that all men therefore are guilty before God and condemned to physical and spiritual death.
Genesis 3:1-6; 1:27; Romans 3:10-19; 5:12,19.

8. SALVATION

-We believe that salvation is by the sovereign, electing grace of God, through man’s freely exercised faith;
That by the appointment of the Father, Christ voluntarily suffered a vicarious (took the sinner’s place, expiatory (extinguish guilt), and propitiatory (to satisfy God’s righteous demands of the sinner) death;
-that justification (legal standing before God) is by faith alone in the all-sufficient sacrifice and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ;
-that those whom God has effectually called shall be divinely preserved and ultimately perfected in the image of the Lord.
Romans 10:9-10; Romans 3:21-28; Hebrews 10:12-24; Ephesians 2:1-9; 1 Cor. 15:2-3.

9. FUTURE THINGS

-We believe in the personal, bodily and imminent return of the Lord Jesus Christ:
-to remove the Church to heaven by the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of living saints and to judge and reward them according to their works;
-to establish the eternal order by raising all unbelievers from the dead and consigning them with Satan to the Lake of Fire (where they will experience eternal (never ending) punishment), and by the creation of a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwells eternal righteousness.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 2 Corinthians 5:10; Revelation 20-21:1; 1 Cor. 15: 51-52; Matthew 25:41, 46; Revelation 14:11

10. THE LOCAL CHURCH

-We believe that the Church ideally is a company of immersed believers, called out from the world, separated unto the Lord Jesus, voluntarily associated for the ministry of the Word, the mutual edification of its members, the propagation of the faith, and the observance of ordinances:
-it is a sovereign, independent body, exercising its own divinely awarded gifts, governing its own finances and Biblical responsibilities under the Lordship for Christ;
-its presiding officers are Pastors and deacons and deaconesses;
-its ordinances are two in number;

-Baptism – which is the immersion of the believer in water, by which he obeys Christ’s command and sets forth his identification with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection.

-The Lord’s Supper – which is the memorial symbolizing the Lord’s body and shed blood, proclaiming His death until He returns.
-its primary ministry is the preaching and teaching of the Word of God to evangelize sinners, edify Christians, and exalt Christ.
Acts 13:2-3 1 Timothy 3:1-13; Acts 8:12; Acts 8:36-39; 1 Cor. 11:23-26; Matt. 28:18-20.

11. MARRIAGE
-We believe in the sanctity of marriage and that it should only be between one man and one woman. We do not marry two people of the same sex. Genesis 2:24-25 and 1 Corinthians 7:1-2