We believe that the Bible, consisting of the Old and New Testaments, is the inspired, inerrant, and infallible Word of God. It is the complete and final revelation of His will for humanity and the only rule of faith and practice. (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21; John 17:17).
We believe in one God, Eternally existing in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (John 14:26- 15:26). The Triune God has created the universe and Humanity in His own image and has called us to manifest and reflect personal Holiness through trust and obedience to His Word and commandments.
Because humanity has purposely and woefully fallen from a perfect relationship of trust and obedience with God; the response subsequently entered us into a state of moral co- rruption and depravity, resulting in our exceedingly lost state; thus, separated and estran ged us from our creator (Rom 3:23; 19- 26). We believe that those who repent and forsake sin and trust Jesus Christ as Savior are regenerated by the Holy Spirit and become new creatures, delivered f rom condemnation and receive eternal life. (Genesis 1:26, 5:2; Genesis 3; Genesis 2:17, 3:19; Ecclesiastes 2:11; John 3:14, 5:24; John 5:30, 7:13, 8:12, 10:26; Romans 9:22; 2 Th essalonians 1:9; Revelation 19:3,20, 20:10,14 & 15, 21:18; Psalm 51:7; Jeremiah 17:9; James 1:14; Romans 3:19, 5:19; Proverbs 28:13; 1 John 1:9; John 3:16, John 1:13; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Romans 8:1)
Salvation is by grace alone; received as a free gift of God through personal faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ and His finished work on the cross. (Ephesians 2.8- 9).
Are both given to us by God through faith, but not in the same way? Justification is an act of God imputing and reckoning sinners as righteous while sanctification is a contin uous transformation of believers by the Holy Spirit into Christ likeness. (Romans 3.28, Romans 5.1,2 Timothy 2.21,John 17.17).
We believe in the universal church, a living spiritual body of which Christ is the head and all regenerated persons are members. We believe in the local church, consisting of a com pany of believers in Jesus Christ, baptized in a credible profession of faith, and associat ed for worship, work, and fellowship. We believe that God has laid upon the members of the local church the primary task of giving the gospel of Jesus Christ to a lost world. (Ep hesians 2:19- 22; Acts 1:8; Ephesians 5:19- 21; Acts 2:42; Hebrews 10:23- 25).
I believe that baptism is an ordinance that was instituted by the Lord Jesus and is for th ose who have been united with Christ in His death and resurrection. Baptism is adminis ered by immersion in water, in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Is an ordinance of the Lord in which believers eat bread signifying the broken body of th e Lord Jesus Christ and believers drink the cup of the Lord Jesus, signifying the new cov enant in the Lord's blood? (1 Corinthians 11.23- 34).
We believe in the literal second coming of Christ at the end of the age (Pre- tribulation & Premillennial) when He will return to the earth personally and visibly to consummate His Millennial kingdom. At this time, Christ will raise the dead from the grave and separate the righteous from the wicked. The wicked will be consigned to endless punishment and the righteous to endless joy in fellowship with the triune God. This judgment will forever fix the final state of men in heaven or hell, on the principle of God's just and holy judgment in Christ.
(Revelation 22:7;Revelation 3:20;Revelation 20:4- 6,11- 15;Matthew 25:46;John 5:25- 29; 1 Corinthians 15:20- 28, 35- 58; 2 Corinthians 5:1- 10; Philippians 3:20- 21; 1 Thessalonians 4:13- 5:11; 2 Thessalonians 1:3- 12; Revelation 19:1- 21; 20:11- 15; 21:1- 22:15).
