What We Believe

We exist to glorify God by making disciples who exalt Jesus Christ

The Word of God

2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21; John 16:12-13
We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the verbally inspired Word of God, the final authority for faith and life, inerrant in the original writings, infallible and God-breathed. We believe in the normal, literal, historical, grammatical, consistent interpretation of the Scriptures and in a dispensational understanding of God’s progressive revelation.

The God-Head

Deuteronomy 6:4; 2 Corinthians 13:14
We believe in one Triune God, eternally existing in three persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – co-identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections.

THE FATHER

The Person & Work of the Father
1 Corinthians 8:6; Romans 8:29-30; John 1:12
We believe that God the Father, the first Person of the Trinity, orders and directs all things in Creation, Providence, and Redemption according to His own Sovereign purpose and for His Divine glory. We believe that the Father has graciously chosen from eternity past those whom He would have as His own; out of love sent His Son to redeem sinners and His Spirit as a Comforter; and in mercy effectively draws His elect to Christ; and eternally saves from sin all who come to Him through Jesus Christ. We believe the Father reconciles to Himself all those who repent and He adopts as His own children all those who come to Him through Christ.

Salvation

John 1:12; 10:27-30; Ephesians 2:2-10
We believe that our Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, as the representative and substitutionary sacrifice for all people; and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures; and that all who have repented of their sins and have put their trust in Him are saved by grace through faith on the basis of His shed blood. Such are kept by God’s power, are accepted in the Beloved, and are absolutely secure in Christ forever.

The Total Depravity of Man

Genesis 1:26-27; Romans 3:22-23; 5:12; Ephesians 2:1-3, 12
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam’s sin the race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God; and that man is totally depraved, and of himself, totally unable to remedy his lost condition.

The Church

1 Corinthians 12:13-14; 1 Timothy 3:1-13
We believe that the Church, which is the body and espoused bride of Christ, is a spiritual organism made up of all born-again persons in this present age. We reject those teachings which place the beginning of the New Testament Church subsequent or prior to the Day of Pentecost. We also believe that the establishment and continuance of local churches is clearly taught and defined in the New Testament Scriptures.

Ordinances

1 Corinthians 11:23-24; Acts 8:35-37
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ established two ordinances: believer’s water baptism, practiced by immersion, and the Lord’s Supper, observed as a memorial of His death. We reject the teaching which denies these ordinances for practice in the Church today.

The Second Advent of Christ

1 Thessalonians 1:10; 4:13-18; Zechariah 14:4-11; Revelation 3:10; 19:11-16; 20:1-6
We believe that the literal interpretation of the Holy Scripture will ultimately lead one to believe in the “Blessed Hope”; the personal, imminent, pre-tribulation and pre-millennial coming of the Lord Jesus Christ for His redeemed ones; at the Rapture of the Church; and in His subsequent return to the earth with His saints after the seven-year Tribulation to establish His Millennial Kingdom.