Doctrinal Statement

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  • OUR DOCTRINAL STATEMENT

    The Bible, in its original documents, is the inspired Word of God and without error in its statements. There is only one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; Creator of heaven and earth. The Lord Jesus Christ, born of a virgin, is fully God Who took on flesh, and being sinlessly perfect, gave Himself as a substitutionary sacrifice for our sins by shedding His blood and dying on the Cross; He then was raised from the dead. Man is saved by grace through faith; and none of man's efforts, regardless of how good or well-intended, before or after salvation, has anything to do with his salvation. Believers are looking forward to the imminent return of Jesus Christ.

  • The Trinity

    We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

  • Trinity

    The Father: We believe that God the Father is a spiritual being, omnipotent, omniscient, holy, righteous, loving, and infinitely good; having life in Himself and giving life to all things.

    The Son: We believe that Jesus Christ is true God and true man, the only begotten of the Father.

    We believe in the bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus; in His ascension to Heaven; in His present life as our High Priest and Advocate; and in His return.

    The Holy Spirit: We believe in the supernatural manifestation of the Holy Spirit in and through the life of the believer; in His empowering and equipping for service and ministry and in His definite, yet progressive work of sanctification, commencing at the time of the new birth and continuing until the consummation of Salvation.

  • Salvation

    Sin and Salvation: We believe that God created man in His own image; that man sinned and thereby incurred the penalty of death, ophysical and spiritual; that all human beings inherit a sinful nature.

    We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins as a substitutionary sacrifice and that all who believe and trust in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood.

    We believe that all who repent of their sin, receive Jesus Christ by faith as Savior and confess Him as Lord are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God.

    We believe in the resurrection of both the just and the unjust and in the eternal blessedness of the children of God.

Scripture: We believe in the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments in their original writing as fully inspired of God and accept them as the supreme and final authority for faith and life.

The Church: We believe that one true church is the whole company of those who have been redeemed by Jesus Christ and regenerated by the Holy Spirit; that the new birth and personal confession of Christ are therefore essentials of church membership and that the church on earth is the organism through which God says and does what He desires for His world.

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ appointed two ordinances – Baptism and the Lord’s Supper – to be observed as acts of obedience and as perpetual witness to the cardinal facts of the Christian faith.

The unique authority of the Word of God the Father. We believe that the Bible is the only written revelation of and from God and that it is therefore all we need for faith and life.

The lordship and centrality of Jesus Christ.

We believe that Jesus Christ is God the Son and the full revelation of the Godhead to mankind. He is head of the church and Lord of our lives. As a result, we are to base our doctrine and practice on what He said and did.

The ministry of the Holy Spirit: We believe that we are to trust and obey God the Holy Spirit and that we are to embrace all that the Scriptures reveal of Him and His ministry.