Beliefs

We believe in one God eternally existing in three distinct persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, each of whom is fully God.

God the Father: God the Father is the creator and sustainer of all things, and He created the universe in love. He created man in His own image for fellowship and called man back to Himself through Christ after the rebellion and fall of man.

The Son: Jesus Christ is eternally God. He was together with the Father and the Holy Spirit from the beginning, and through Him all things were made. For man’s redemption, He left heaven and became a man by the Holy Spirit through the virgin Mary. He is forever one Christ with two natures—God and man—in one person.

The Holy Spirit: The Holy Spirit is God, the Lord and giver of life, who was active in the Old Testament and given to the Church in fullness at Pentecost. He empowers believers for service and witness, cleanses man from the old nature and conforms us to the image of Christ. The baptism in the Holy Spirit, subsequent to conversion, releases the fullness of the Spirit and is evidenced by the fruits and gifts of the Holy Spirit.

We believe that the Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, is alone the only infallible, inspired Word of God, and that its authority is ultimate, final, and eternal. It cannot be added to, subtracted from, or superseded in any regard. The Bible is the source of all doctrine, instruction, correction, and reproof. It contains all that is needed for guidance in godliness and practical Christian living.

Christ’s sacrificial death on the cross paid the penalty for the sins of the whole world. Its benefits are only for those who receive Jesus as their personal Savior. Healing of the body, soul, and spirit—and all of God’s provisions are for His believers. They are provided for by Christ’s sacrifice on the cross, but these must be appropriated.

The Word of God declares clearly that salvation is a free gift of God, based on the merits of the death and resurrection of His Son, and comes by faith. Salvation comes by personal repentance, belief in the Lord Jesus, and personal acceptance of Him into one’s life as Lord and Savior. The new life in Christ includes the privileges of adoption and inheritance in the kingdom of God’s beloved Son. Salvation is an act of free will in response to God’s personal love for mankind. It should produce a lifestyle of obedience and service to Jesus Christ.

The Christian life is filled with various trials and tests. For those abiding in Christ until their deaths or His return, the promises of eternal blessing in the presence of God are assured. To remain faithful through all circumstances of life requires dependence upon the Holy Spirit and a willingness to die to personal desires and passions.

The mission of the Church is to lead people to a growing relationship with Christ. The five-fold ministry found in Ephesians 4 governs the Church, the offices of elders, as well as other offices mentioned in scripture. Church policy is a balance between congregation and eldership authority, emphasizing the final authority of the Church leadership. It is essential to the life of the Church that scriptural patterns of discipline are practiced and that oversight for Church discipline, individual and corporate, is exercised by the leadership of the Church.

Water Baptism, is the outward sign of what God has already done in the individual’s life and is a testimony to all that the person now belongs to Jesus. It is identification with Jesus and is undertaken in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
The Lord’s Supper is a commemoration of the death of the Lord Jesus and is done in remembrance of Him until He comes again; it is a sign of our participation in Him.

We believe in the bodily, personal, second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, the resurrection of the believers, the millennium, and the final judgment. The final judgment will determine the eternal status of both believers and the unbelievers, based on their relationship to Jesus Christ.

We believe marriage is a permanent holy covenant ordained by God between a man and a woman (Genesis 1:27; 2:18, 20-24), which also models the relationship between Christ and the Church (Ephesians 5:23).