what we believe…

summary

the bible

the trinity

god the father

god the son, jesus christ

god the holy spirit

creation

sin

salvation

the church

the future

The Bible is the inspired Word of God and the sole foundation for the faith and practice of all believers. It reveals a triune God: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. The Father sent the Son to be the Savior of lost mankind who were separated from God through rebellion by sin. Jesus, the Son of God, died a substitutionary death on the cross, was buried, rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven where he now reigns as King with all authority in heaven and on earth. Those who place their faith in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ are regenerated with divine life by the Holy Spirit. It is the responsibility of all believers to work together to share the Gospel message with all, that in all things God may be glorified. Maranatha!

We believe in the inspiration, inerrancy, sufficiency, and final authority of the Bible. God has spoken to man through His Word in the Old and New Testaments; it is without error in the original manuscripts. The author was God the Holy Spirit using human writers, and it is the supreme revelation of the will of God and the sole authority in the lives of believers, His Church (Isaiah 30:8; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Timothy 3:16; Hebrews 4:12).

We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons- Father, Son and Holy Spirit. These Persons are equal in essence, but each has His own distinct work. He is a personal Being and the Creator and sustainer of the universe. (2 Corinthians 13:14; John 1:1-5; Matthew 28:19-20).

We believe in God the Father, almighty maker of heaven and earth, perfect in holiness, power, and wisdom. He saves from sin and death anyone who comes to Him through Jesus Christ, and those who are in Christ become God’s children. He is the supreme ruler over the universe and sovereign over all things. Everything exists for His name and for His glory alone. He is the first person of the Trinity (Genesis 1:1-31; 1 Chronicles 29:11; Romans 11:36; John 1:12; Ephesians 1:3-6; Hebrews 12:7-8; 1 John 3:1-2; 1 Corinthians 8:5-6).

We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as true God and true man, and in His virgin birth, sinless humanity, vicarious death, bodily resurrection, current advocacy, and His personal, imminent, bodily return for His church. He is the promised Savior revealed in Scripture in the Old and New Testaments. The Lord Jesus Christ willingly shed His blood and died as a sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. He is one with the Father. He is the second person of the Trinity (John 1:14; Isaiah 7:14; Luke 1:26-35; John 1:1-3; Isaiah 9:6; Romans 5:6; John 10:11; John 10:17-18; John 3:16; John 10:30; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17).

We believe that the Holy Spirit regenerates with divine life and personally indwells the believer upon his faith in Christ for salvation. He is an eternal and divine Person, co-equal with God the Father and God the Son. He was active in creation. He convicts men of sin and guides them in all truth in complete harmony with the God the Father and God the Son, as they are the same in essence. He is the third person of the Trinity (Acts 1:1-2; Romans 8:9-11; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Matthew 28:19; Acts 5:3-4; 1 Corinthians 12:4-6; Genesis 1:2; John 14:26; Titus 3:4-7).

God created all things seen and unseen from nothing into existence. We believe that the entire human race sprang from one man, Adam, and one woman, Eve, literal people, who were created directly in God’s image and after His likeness and are unique in creation (Genesis 1-2; Genesis 1:27; Psalm 33:6; John 1; Romans 1:20; 1 Corinthians 15:45-49; Luke 3:38).

We believe that Adam, made in the image of God, was originally created as a sinless being. He willingly sinned and fell from that sinless state, and through Adam all mankind are now sinners resulting in mankind’s complete and universal separation from God. As a result, all human beings are alienated from God and condemned to death, to be eternally separated from God without God’s own gracious intervention (Genesis 2:16-17; Genesis 3:1-7; Romans 5:12-15; 1 Corinthians 15:22).

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ shed His blood and died as a sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. Salvation is made free to all by the Gospel. It is initiated by God, and is accomplished by grace apart from any human works. It is the duty of all persons to repent and believe. All who have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ are forgiven, regenerated, and justified. From all eternity God determined in grace to save a great multitude of guilty sinners from every tribe and language and people and nation. God justifies and sanctifies those who, by grace, have faith in Jesus, and that He will one day glorify them—all to the praise of his glorious grace (Titus 3:5; John 3:3-7; Ephesians 2:8-10; Romans 8:33; Romans 3:20; Colossians 2:13-15; 2 Thessalonians 13; 1 Corinthians 6:11; Romans 6:1-22).

We believe that the Church, the Body of Christ, is composed of all true believers who are placed into that Body by the baptizing work of the Holy Spirit. The Church is the bride of Christ whom Christ himself makes holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the Word to present her to Himself in splendor without any spot or wrinkle but holy and blameless (Ephesians 5:25-32; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 1 Corinthians 12:12-13; Acts 2:1-21; Ephesians 1:22; Ephesians 2:19-22).

We believe that this Gospel of the Kingdom will be proclaimed to every people group and language in every nation and only then will the end come. At that time, King Jesus, the blessed hope of the believer, will return personal, imminent, and bodily for His Church. We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the unsaved, in the unending life of the saved with the Lord and the eternal separation of the unsaved. (Matthew 24:14; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17; John 14:3; 1 Timothy 6:13-14; Revelation 21:1-5).