What We Believe

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Of the Scriptures

Of the True God

We believe that the Holy Bible, in its original form, was verbally inspired and the product of men carried along by the Holy Spirit. Therefore it is the ultimate source of truth and without error. We believe that it is the true center of Christian union and the only infallible rule for all human conduct, creeds, and opinions.
2 Tim. 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:19-21
We believe that there is only one living and true God, infinite in every excellence; that in the unity of the godhead there are three personal distinctions - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit -One in substance and equal in every divine perfection.
Exodus 20: 2-3; 1 Corinthians 8:6; 1 John 5: 7

Of the Devil or Satan

Of the Creation

We believe in the distinct personality of Satan, that he is the god of this age, author of all the power of darkness and sin, and is destined to the judgment of an eternal justice in the lake of fire.
Matthew 4:1-3; 1 Cor. 4:4; Rev. 20:20; Genesis 3:1-6
We believe that God created the heavens and the earth, including all life, "each after its own kind," by direct act and not by the process of evolution.
Genesis 1, 2; Col. 1:16-17; John 1:3; Exodus 26:11; Hebrews 11:3

Of the Fall of Man

Of the Atonement for Sin

We believe that man, in the person of the first Adam was created in innocence but by voluntary transgression fell into sin, thus plunging the whole race into condemnation and death, so that now all mankind is born in sin and shaped in iniquity and become practical sinners with the first expression of personal choice, not by constraint, but by choice and so are without excuse before God.
Genesis 3; Romans 5:10-19; Romans 1:18-20
We believe that the only escape from the condemnation of sin is through the atonement wrought by Jesus Christ, when He voluntarily took upon Him a human body and nature, yet without sin, and by His suffering, death, and resurrection made full satisfaction to the justice of God for the sin of man; that the blessings of this salvation are given on the grounds of grace to duty of all to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
John 1:1-3, 14; Hebrews 10:4-14; Acts 16:30-33; Romans 5:19; 2 Peter 3:18

Of Salvation by Grace

Of the Church

We believe that faith in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ is the only condition of salvation from sin and that this salvation is wholly by grace; that no works, however good make that salvation more secure. We believe that all who take Christ as their Savior are born from above and are eternally secure in Christ.
Acts 16:31; Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5-7; Romans 10:9-13; John 10:28-29; Romans 8:35-39; Philippians 1:6
We believe that the Church is a New Testament institution; unknown to the Old Testament prophets; established by Jesus Christ, Who is its sole Head; revealed through the holy Apostles; empowered and perpetuated by the Holy Spirit; composed of believers in Jesus Christ as Savior, both Jew and Gentile, called out from the world and indwelt by the Holy Spirit, His "body" for service and His "bride" for glory. It began with the New Testament saints and will be consummated at the coming of Christ in the Rapture.
Matthew 16:18; Acts 1:8, 2: 1-13, 41-47; Acts 15:14; Romans 16:26; 1 Corinthians 12:12-28; Ephesians 1:22-23, 3:21, 5:22-23; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

Of the Ordinances

Of the Righteous and the Wicked

We believe that there are two church ordinances: Baptism and the Lord's Supper.
Baptism is the immersion of a believer in water and is properly called "Believer's Baptism." It sets forth in a beautiful and solemn way our faith in a crucified, buried and risen Savior, with its effects in our lives of death to sin and resurrection to new life. Baptism is a prerequisite to the privileges of church membership.
The Lord's Supper is the commemoration of our Lord's death until He comes and our continual fellowship with Him, and should be preceded by baptism and always by careful self-examination.
Acts 8:36-39; Romans 6:3-5; 1 Corinthians 11:23-32
We believe that there is a radical and essential difference between the righteous and the wicked; that such only as through faith are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and sanctified by the Spirit of God, are truly righteous in God's esteem; while all such who continue in impenitence and unbelief are in His sight wicked, and under the curse; and that this distinction holds among men both in and after death, in the everlasting felicity of the saved and the everlasting conscious suffering of the lost.
Malachi 3:18; Romans 6:17-23; Matthew 25:34-41; Luke 6:25; John 8:21

Of the Return of Christ

Of the Resurrection

We believe in the bodily, personal, premillennial return of Jesus Christ; that He will come before the seven year tribulation period to catch away His church, coming only into the air, and that He will come with His church at the close of the tribulation to judge the living nations and to set up His Kingdom.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Matthew 25:31-46; Revelation 19:11-21; Mark 13:24-27
We believe in the resurrection of the bodies of the dead; that believers who sleep in Jesus will be raised at the coming of Christ for His church and caught up with transformed living saints to meet the Lord in the air, and that the wicked dead will be raised at the close of the Millennial Kingdom and stand in their bodies at the Great White Throne of judgment to receive their final doom.
John 5:21-30; 2 Corinthians 5:1-8; Philippians 3:20-21; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; Revelation 7:9-17, 20:11-18