Statement of Faith

The Scriptures

We believe the Holy Scriptures, the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, in their entirety, to be complete, final, and the only revealed Word of God to His church, and accept them as verbally inspired of God, inerrant in their original language so as to be the supreme authority in all matters of faith and practice.

God

We believe in the triune God. The Scriptures reveal one and only one living and true God, infinite and intelligent Spirit, the Maker and Supreme Ruler of heaven and earth, eternally existing in three persons: FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT, but one in substance, essence and power, though executing distinct but harmonious offices in the great work of redemption.

The Fall

We believe that God originally created man in His own image, and free from sin, but through the temptation of Satan, he transgressed the command of God and fell from his original holiness and righteousness; whereby his posterity inherit a nature corrupt and wholly opposed to God and His law, are under condemnation, and as soon as they are capable of moral action, become actual transgressors.

Jesus Christ

We believe in Jesus Christ, God's only begotten Son, our sole Mediator; we further believe in His pre-existence, His incarnation, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His substitutionary atonement, His bodily resurrection from the grave, His ascension, His present intercessory work before the throne of the Father, and His personal, visible, imminent, pre-millennial return from heaven.

The Holy Spirit

We believe that the Holy Spirit is a divine personality, and not a mere emanation, influence, or force; equal with the Father and the Son, and of the same essence and nature; that He is almighty, merciful and just; that He is holy, righteous, and true; that He is eternally existent, glorious in nature, possessing the attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence; that He was active in creation; that He restrains the world, the flesh, and the devil; that He witnesses to the truth, converts the lost, extols the harmony with His divine office, comforts, teaches, testifies, preaches, guides, regenerates, empowers, sanctifies, and anoints, thus exercising the quickening role in the work of saving the lost, and the supervising role in the life of the saved.

Salvation

We believe in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, apart from human merit, works, or ceremonies. We further believe in the preservation of the saints.

The Church

We believe a local New Testament church to be an assembly of disciples immersed upon profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, united in the belief of what He has said, and covenanting to do what He has commanded. We further believe that the local church under the Holy Spirit is autonomous and congregational in operation, being free from interference by an ecclesiastical or civil authority.

Believer's Baptism

We believe that believer's baptism is an ordinance of the Lord Jesus Christ given to the church and obligatory upon every believer, wherein he is immersed in water in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, as a sign of his fellowship with the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, of remission of sins, and of his giving of himself up to God, to live and walk in newness of life. It is a pre-requisite to church membership.

The Lord's Supper

We believe that the Lord's Supper is an ordinance of the Lord Jesus Christ given to the church to be observed till He comes.