What We Believe


GOD
We believe in God as absolute and sole creator of the universe and that creation was by divine feat and not through evolutionary process. We believe that God, by His sovereign choice and out of love for man, sent Christ into the world to save sinners.

JESUS
We believe that Jesus Christ in the flesh was both God and man. He was born of a virgin and that He lived a sinless life. He taught with authority and performed miracles and signs exactly as revealed in the four gospels. He was crucified; voluntarily dying as a penalty for our sins and was bodily raised from the dead on the third day. Later, He ascended to the Father’s right hand where He is head of the church and intercedes for believers. He is coming again personally, bodily, and visibly to this earth to set up his millennial kingdom.

HOLY SPIRIT
We believe the Holy Spirit is a person; He is God and possesses all the divine attributes. He indwells all believers, baptizes and seals all believers at the moment of their salvation, and fills them in response to confessions of sin and surrender.

SALVATION
We believe that people are saved and justified on the simple and single ground of the shed blood of Jesus Christ—who by His death and shed blood make a perfect atonement for sin, redeeming us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. Therefore, our salvation, with its forgiveness of sins, is impartation of a new nature, and its hope of eternal life, is entirely apart from good works, baptism, church membership - or man’s effort. Salvation of pure grace. It is simple faith in Christ alone, plus nothing. We believe a true believer is eternally secure, but sin may interrupt the joy of his fellowship with God and bring the loving discipline of his Heavenly Father.

THE BIBLE
We believe that the Bible is the Word of God, supernaturally inspired, so that it is inerrant in the original manuscripts and preserved by God in its verbal inspiration. Therefore, it is the divinely authoritative standard for every age and every life.

LIFE AFTER DEATH
We believe that all who receive Christ become joint heirs with Christ; at death, their spirits depart to be with Christ in conscious blessedness and at the rapture (when Christ returns to earth) their bodies will be raised to the likeness of the body of Christ and dwell forever in divine presence.

LIFE BEFORE DEATH
We believe that the gift of eternal life, received by all believers, represents a quality of life here on earth as well as a life after death. We believe that the goal of every Christian should be to grow in spiritual maturity through obedience to the Word of God and the indwelling Spirit.

THE TRINITY
We believe that the Godhead exists externally in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - and these three are one.

THE CHURCH
We believe that the church is the bride of Christ and is made up of all true believers in Jesus Christ. Our particular church is a local body of baptized believers with similar interests and goals. The church is organized and functions according to New Testament standards and models. Its primary purpose is to reach, win, teach, and develop believers.


Our Church Covenant

Having been led, as we believe, by the Spirit of God, to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, and on the profession of our faith, having been baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, we do now in the presence of God, angels, and this assembly, most solemnly and joyfully enter into covenant with one another, as one body in Christ.

FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THIS CHURCH
We engage, therefore, by the aid of the Holy Spirit, to walk together in Christian love; to strive for the advancement of this church, in knowledge, holiness, and comfort; to promote its prosperity and spirituality; to sustain its worship, ordinance, discipline, and doctrines.

AS CHRISTIAN STEWARDS
To contribute cheerfully and regularly to the support of the ministry, the expenses of the church, the relief of the poor, and the spread of the gospel through all nations.

ALONE AT HOME
We also engage to maintain family and secret devotion; to educate our children religiously; to seek the salvation of our kindred and acquaintances.

BEFORE THE WORLD
To walk circumspectly in the world; to be just in our dealings, faithful in our engagements, and exemplary in our deportment; to avoid all tattling, backbiting, and excessive anger, to abstain from the sale and use of intoxicating drink as a beverage, and to be zealous in our efforts to advance the kingdom of our Savior.

TOWARD ONE ANOTHER
We further engage to watch over one another in brotherly love; to remember each other in prayer; to aid each other in sickness and distress; to cultivate Christian sympathy in feeling and courtesy in speech; to be slow to take offense, but always ready for reconciliation and, mindful of the rules of our Savior, to secure it without delay.

WHEN WE MOVE
We moreover engage that when we move from this place, we will, as soon as possible, unite with some other church, where we can carry out the spirit of this covenant and the principles of God’s Word.


Baptism

Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer’s faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Savior, the believer’s death to sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus. It is a testimony to his faith in the final resurrection of the dead. Being a church ordinance, it is a prerequisite to the privileges of church membership and to the Lord’s Supper.

Then Jesus arrived from Galilee at the Jordan coming to John, to be baptized by him. But John tried to prevent Him, saying, "I have need to be baptized by You, and do You come to me?"
But Jesus answering said to him, "Permit it at this time; for in this way it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he permitted Him.
After being baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and lighting on Him, And behold, a voice out of the heavens said, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased."
Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
Matthew 3:13-17; Romans 6:4 NAS


The Lord’s Supper

The Lord’s Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members of the church, through partaking of the bread and the fruit of the vine, memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.

For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread; and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, "This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me."
In the same way He took the cup also after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me."
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes.
Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
But a man must examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly.
Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
1 Corinthians 11:23-29; 1 Timothy 1:17 NAS