What We Believe

We hold fast to the truth of God’s Word as our ultimate authority in all matters of life and faith.

The Bible is the inspired Word of God – the foundation of what we believe, how we live, and why we serve. Every teaching and decision flows from its unchanging truth, which guides us to know God and make Him known.

Our beliefs reflect the core teachings of Scripture: the triune nature of God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; salvation through faith in Jesus Christ alone; and the transforming work of the Holy Spirit who empowers us to live according to God’s will. We believe that the Christian life is a continual journey of worship, service, and holiness, growing in grace and living out the love of Christ in our families, church, and community.

We invite you to explore our doctrinal foundation to understand not only what we believe, but how these truths shape our mission, our worship, and the way we walk together in faith.

Doctrinal Statement

Guiding Structure of Our Church Community

1. The Scriptures

We believe the writings of the Old and New Testaments as originally written verbally inspired and the product of spirit-controlled men. They are our only infallible and authoritative rule of faith and practice. II Timothy 3:16, II Peter 1:19–21

2. The True God

We believe there is one and only one true God and that in the unity of the Godhead there are three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; that they are equal and execute distinct but harmonious offices in the great work of redemption.
Exodus 20:2-3, 1 Corinthians 8:6; Genesis 17:1, 11 Corinthians. 3:17

3. The Lord Jesus Christ

4. The Holy Spirit

We believe the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Triune God who convicts the world concerning sin, righteousness and judgment; that He indwells, baptizes into Christ and seals all who become children of God through Christ; that He empowers, teaches, sanctifies and fills believers daily as they surrender to Him. John 16:8-11; 14:16, 17; Romans 8:9; I Corinthians 3:18; Ephesians 5:18

5. The Devil or Satan

We believe in the personhood of Satan; that he is the unholy god of this age and is destined for eternal punishment in the Lake of Fire.
II Corinthians 4:4; Revelation 20:10

6. Creation

We believe the Genesis account of creation as being neither allegory nor myth, but a literal account of the direct creative acts of God. No evolution was employed. All men are descendants of the historical Adam and Eve.
Genesis 1:2; John 1:3

7. Fall of Man

We believe man was created in innocence and that by voluntary choice man transgressed God's law, and all men sinned in him, therefore all men are totally depraved being sinners by nature and by conduct.
Genesis 3:10-19; 5:12

8. Righteous and Wicked

We believe only those who are justified by faith in our Lord Jesus Christ are righteous in the sight of God. Those who continue in unbelief are in God's sight, wicked and under the curse and face everlasting, conscious suffering. Malachi 3:18; Romans 6:17,18; Proverbs 14;32

9. Heaven and Hell

We believe that the saved at death go immediately to be with Christ in Heaven, that their works shall be brought before the judgment seat of Christ for the determination of rewards which will take place at the time when Christ comes for His own; that the spirits of the unsaved at death descend immediately into Hades where they are kept under punishment until the final day of judgment, at which time their bodies shall be raised from the grave, that they shall be judged and cast into Hell, the place of final and everlasting punishment.
John 14:1-6; II Corinthians 5:8-10; 1 Peter 3:22; Matthew 25:46; Luke 16:19-31; Mark 9:42 - 48; Revelation 20:11-15

10. Salvation by Grace Through Faith

We believe that our salvation is a free gift from God, not merited in any way, therefore is wholly by grace. Salvation is received by the placing of one's faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Ephesians 2:8, 9

11. Repentance

We believe that repentance is a change of mind and purpose from sin toward God; that it is characterized by godly sorrow for sin that separates man from God, and that true repentance is inseparably related to true faith. Acts 20:21

12. Remission

We believe that remission (forgiveness) of sins is only received through and because of the shed blood of Jesus Christ. Hebrews 9:22; 1 John 1:7

13. The Security of Saints

We believe that those who are truly saved are kept by the power of God, and sealed by the Spirit of God, therefore making it impossible to be lost once saved. 1 Peter 1:5; Romans 8:35-39; Ephesians 1:13

14. The Priesthood of Believer

We believe that through Jesus Christ every believer has direct access to God without the need of a human priest; that every believer has the right and responsibility to study the Scriptures guided by the Holy Spirit.Hebrews 4:16; II Timothy 2:15; 1 Peter 2:9

15. Local Church

We believe that a local church is an organized assembly of saved, baptized believers meeting for worship, prayer, fellowship, teaching, to practice the ordinances and to carry out the Great Commission, without ecclesiastical interference, that this assembly is accountable directly to God.
Matthew 23:19, 20;1 Corinthians 11:2, Acts 2:41, 42; Matthew 18:15-17; Acts 15.

16. Baptism and The Lord's Supper

We believe that only two ordinances were given to the church - Baptism and the Lord's Supper, that Christian Baptism is the immersion of a believer in water, under the authority of a local church, portraying the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we died to sin and rose to a new life, that Christian Baptism is a prerequisite to church membership. We believe that the Lord's Supper is a continuing memorial of the broken body and shed blood of Christ observed by the local church and should be preceded by solemn, self-examination.
Matthew 28:19, 20; Romans 6:3-5; Colossians 2:12, Acts 2:41, 42; Matthew 26:26-30; 1 Corinthians 11:23-34

17. Separation

We believe in obedience to the Biblical commands to separate entirely from worldliness and ecclesiastical apostasy unto God.
II Corinthians 6:14 - 7:1; 1 Thessalonians 1:9; 1 Timothy 6:3 - 5; Romans 16:17; II John 1:9-11

18. Civil Government

We believe that civil government is of divine appointment for the interest and good order of human society; that magistrates are to be prayed for, and obeyed, except in things opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ; that the church and state are to be separate, each having definite and distinct spheres of responsibility. Romans 13:1-7; II Samuel 23:3, Exodus 18:21, 22; Acts 5:29, 4:19, 20; Daniel 3:17, 18

19. Rapture and Subsequent Events

We believe in the imminent premillennial return of Christ for His Church and that at that moment the dead in Christ shall be raised in glorified bodies, and the living in Christ shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the air before the seventieth week of Daniel. Daniel 9:24-27; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 1 Corinthians 15:42-44; 51-54; Philippians 3:20, 21; Revelation 3:10

We believe that the Great Tribulation, which follows the rapture of the church, will be culminated by the revelation of Christ in power and great glory to sit upon the throne of David and to establish the millennial reign. Acts 2:29, 30; Revelation 20:1-4, 6

20. Charismatic Movement

We believe the current charismatic movement is not a scriptural movement; that the gifts of tongues and healing were "sign-gifts" until the scriptures were completed, that these gifts ceased at that time. Mark. 16:15-20; 1 Corinthians 13:8, 14:21, 22

Constitution

Guiding Structure of Our Church Community