The statement of faith contained on this website does not exhaust the extent of our faith. The Bible itself is the sole and final source of all that we believe. We do believe, however, that the foregoing statement of faith contained on this website accurately represents the teaching of the Bible.
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We believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as being verbally inspired by God and inerrant and infallible in the original writings, and that they are of supreme and final authority.
We believe God has promised to preserve His Word for all time.
We believe in one God eternally existing in one essence, yet three co-equal persons, the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by God, conceived by the Holy Spirit, and born to the virgin Mary.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, Who convicts the world of sin, righteousness and judgment. He is the life of the believer, and He empowers the preaching and teaching of the gospel.
We believe that mankind was created in the image of God, sinned, and thereby incurred not only physical death, but spiritual death, which is separation from God, and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature.
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the basis of His shed blood.
We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, His ascension into Heaven and His present life there as High Priest and Advocate for us.
We believe in the blessed hope, the personal, visible and imminent return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ to take all believers to heaven. We believe in the pre-tribulation rapture of the saints. We believe in a literal 7-year tribulation period. We believe in the literal millennial reign of Christ after the 7 years of tribulation. We believe that after the millennial reign of Christ Satan will attempt one last attack on Christ and will be eternally cast into the lake of fire along with all unbelievers and those who have accepted Christ’s gift of salvation with spend all of eternity with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again by the Holy Spirit, and thereby become children of God and heirs of eternal life.
We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting conscious suffering of the lost in hell, and the fellowship of the saved in heaven.
We believe in the existence of a personal devil, who is still working in the world to destroy the souls of men and that he and all his angels and all who receive not Christ as their Savior will eternally perish in the lake of fire.
We believe in a local, autonomous church, whose mission it is to preach the Scriptures to all the world, all of its endeavors being guided by multiple leadership and supported by the wise stewardship of God's people.
We believe that the ordinances of the Church given by our Lord, are Baptism and the Lord's table (Communion).
We believe that God created the universe in six literal, 24-hour periods. We reject evolution, the Gap Theory, the Day-Age Theory, and Theistic Evolution as unscriptural theories of origin.
We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman.
We believe that the only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one woman.
We believe that men and women are spiritually equal in position before God but that God has ordained distinct and separate spiritual functions for men and women in the home and the church. Children are a heritage from the Lord and parents are commanded to responsibly rear them according to the Scriptures.
We believe that God does not desire divorce but rather intends marriage to last until one of the spouses dies.
We believe that human life begins at conception and that the unborn child is a living human being.
We believe that we should demonstrate love for others, not only toward fellow believers, but also toward both those who are not believers and those who oppose us.
LAWSUITS BETWEEN BELIEVERS
We believe that Christians are prohibited from bringing civil lawsuits against other Christians or the church to resolve personal disputes.
We believe that God has ordained and created governments. And that everyone should obey the rules set in place when the government’s rules do not contradict God’s law.
A typographical error that may be contained in this online version of our statement of faith
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