Core Beliefs
About the Scriptures

We believe that the Bible was "God-breathed" by a process of dual authorship. The Holy Spirit superintended human authors, using their own individual styles, so that they composed and recorded God's truth without error in the original manuscripts(1). The Bible is the believer's only infallible rule of faith and practice(2).
(1)Psalms 119:160; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21. (2)Psalms 119:105; 2 Timothy 3:16-17.
About the Godhead
We believe in one God, self-existent in three persons of equal nature: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (1) God is eternal (2), all powerful (3), all-knowing (4), and unchangeable (5). He is the immediate creator of all things, including the universe, heaven and earth, man, and the angels (6).
(1)Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14. (2)Psalms 90:2; 1 Timothy 1:17. (3)Jerimiah 32:17; Matthew 19:26. (4)Psalms 139:1-4; Hebrews 4:13. (5)James 1:17. (6)Genesis 1:1, 21, 27; Isaiah 40:26; Hebrews 11:3.
About the person and work of Jesus Christ
We believe in the Deity of Jesus Christ who became a man without ceasing to be God (1). He was born of a virgin and lived a sinless life (2). By His substitutionary, sacrificial death on a cross, He made atonement for the sins of the world (3). We believe in His bodily resurrection three days after His death, and in His ascension to heaven where He presently intercedes as High Priest on behalf of His people (4) and functions as head of His body, the church (5). We believe in the personal, imminent coming of Jesus Christ for His church before the tribulation period and in His subsequent premillennial return to earth to set up His kingdom (6).
(1)Miciah 5:2; John 1:1-3, 14; Philippians 2:5-7; Collossians 2:9. (2)Matthew 1:18-25; Hebrews 4:15. (3)Isaiah 53:4-6; 2 Corinthians 5:14-15; 2 John 2:2. (4)Luke 24:1-8; 2 Corinthians 15:3-4; Hebrews 4:14. (5)Ephesians 1:22-23, 5:23. (6)1 Thesselonians 1:9-10, 4:13-18; Revelations 20:1-6.
About the person and work of the Holy Spirit
We believe in the Holy Spirit as the third person in the Godhead (1). He was involved in creation (2), in the giving of God's revelation (3), and in the conception and ministry of Jesus Christ (4). He convicts the world of sin, righteousness and judgment (5). The Spirit calls men to Christ (6) regenerating (7) indwelling (8) baptizing (9) and sealing them (10) at conversion. The Holy Spirit is active in the life of the submissive believer (11) as He guides and teaches (12), provides assurance (13), empowers (14), and gifts individual believers (15).
(1)Matthew 28:19; Romans 8:23; Ephesians 4:30; 1 Corinthians 12:11. (2)Genesis 1:2; Job 33:4. (3)Miciah 3:8; 2 Peter 1:21. (4)Matthew 1:20; Luke 4:1. (5)John 16:7-11. (6)Revelations 22:17. (7)John 3:3-7. (8)Romans 8:9. (9)1 Corinthians 12:13. (10)Ephesians 1:13-14, 4:30. (11)Ephesians 5:18. (12)John 16:13; 1 Corinthians 2:10. (13)Romans 8:16. (14)Romans 8:13. (15)Romans 12:6-8; 1 Cor 12:11.
About man
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, thus functioning as God's representative on earth (1). However, by virtue of Adam's sin, all men are sinners, alienated from God, and unable to remedy this condition (2).
(1)Genesis 1:26-27. (2)Romans 3:23; 5:12; Ephesians 2:1-3, 12).
About salvation
We believe that our salvation has been accomplished solely by Jesus Christ's death on the cross (1). Salvation is God's free gift of eternal life provided by His grace and received by man through repentance and personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (2). Once saved, believers are kept safe and secure in Christ forever (3).
(1)Romans 5:8-10; 1 Peter 2:24. (2)John 3:16; Ephesians 2:3-10. (3)John 10:27-30; Romans 8:28-30.
About the believer's walk
We believe that Christians are exhorted to live lives controlled by the Holy Spirit and not to yield to the lusts of the flesh (1). Christians are commanded to live holy lives and have the God-given resources to do so (2).
(1)Galations 5:16-26. (2)Phillipians 2:13-14; 1 Peter 1:14-16.
About the angels and satan
We believe that angels were created by God in holiness before the creation of the world (1). They are personal spiritual beings who perform a variety of ministries for God (2). Demons are angels who rebelled with Satan against God and are led by Satan in opposing God's work (3). Satan is the chief of fallen angels, the originator of sin, and the enemy of God and God's people. He may be resisted by believers, and will be eternally punished with his angels in the lake of fire (4).
(1)Job 38:4-7; Colosians 1:16; Jude 6. (2)Luke 2:13, 15:10; Hebews 1:14; 1 Peter 1:12; Jude 6. (3)Matthew 12:24-27, 25:41; Ephesians 6:11-12; Revelations 12:7-). (4)Genesis 3:1-19; Job 1:6-7; Matthew 4:2-11, 25:41; Ephesians 6:10-13; 1 Peter 5:8.
About the Church
We believe that the Church is the body and bride of Christ and is a spiritual organism made up of all Christians of this present age (1). This universal organism is organized into local assemblies of believers (2). These local churches carry the mission of worship, evangelism and edification (3); and they observe the ordinances of baptism and the Lord's Supper (4). Each local church maintains it's own autonomy under the headship of Jesus Christ, being led by elders (pastors) and deacons, (5). Individual believers have the responsibility to use their gifts and do the work of service (6).
(1)Ephesians 1:22-23, 5:25-27; 1 Corinthians 12:12-14; Colosians 1:24-27. (2)cf 1 Corinthians 1:2; 1 Thessalonians 1:1. (3)cf Acts 2:42-47. (4)Matthew 28:19; Acts 8:36-38; 10:48; 1 Corinthians 11:26. (5)Ephesians 5:23; Philippians 1:1; Acts 20:17,28; I Timothy 3:1-13. (6)1 Corinthians 12:12-27; Ephesians 4:12
About the second advent...
We believe in the Second Coming of Christ that His return from heaven will be premillennial, personal, physical, visible, and glorious - a blessed hope for which we should constantly watch and pray, the time being unrevealed, but always imminent (1).
(1)Acts 1:11, Revelations 1:7, Mark 13:33-37, Titus 2:11-13, Revelations 22:20.
About the eternal state...
At physical death, unsaved persons wait in the temporary state of conscious torment until final judgment (1). Believers who die go to be at home with the Lord (2). They await the resurrection of their bodies (3). God's people, the righteous, will spend eternity in the presence of God in heaven (4). The unrighteous will experience conscious, eternal punishment in hell, separated from the presence of God (5).
(1)Luke 16:19-31. (2)2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23. (3)2 Corinthians 5:1-9. (4)John 14:2-3; 1 Thessalonians 4:17; Revelations 21:1-3, 22:5. (5)Isaiah 66:24; Matthew 8:12, 25:41, 46; Mark 9:43-48; 2 Thessalonians 1:9; Revelations 20:14).