Our Beliefs

  • We believe that the Bible is the Word of God, fully inspired and without error in the original manuscripts, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and it has supreme authority in all matters of faith, and conduct.

  • We believe that there is one living and true God, eternally existing in three persons; that these are equal in every divine perfection, and that they execute distinct but harmonious office in the work of creation, providence, and redemption.

  • We believe in God, the Father, an infinite, personal spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, power, and love. We believe that He concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of men, that He hears and answers prayers, and that He saves from sin and death all who come to Him through Jesus Christ.

  • We believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son, conceived by the Holy Spirit. We believe in His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles and teachings. We believe in His substitutionary, atoning death, bodily resurrection, ascension into Heaven, perpetual intercession for His people and personal, visible return to earth.

  • We believe in the Holy Spirit who came forth from the Father and the Son to convict the world of sin, righteousness and judgment, and to regenerate, sanctify, and empower all who believe in Jesus Christ. We believe that the Holy Spirit indwells every believer in Christ, and that He is an abiding helper, teacher, and guide.

  • We believe that salvation is by Grace alone, through Faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone. We believe that all men are sinners by nature and by choice and are, therefore, under condemnation. We believe that those who are regenerated by the Holy Spirit repent of their sin, and believe and trust in Jesus Christ as Savior. The security of the believer is assured by both the words and works of Jesus Christ alone.

  • 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 company of believers in Jesus Christ, baptized on a credible profession of faith, and associated 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.

  • We believe that a Christian should live for the glory of God and the well-being of his fellowmen; that his conduct should be blameless before the world; that he should be a faithful steward of his possessions, and that he should seek to realize for himself and others the full stature of maturity in Christ. Christian behavior or conduct is fundamental to those who have accepted, by faith, Jesus Christ as their Savior and thus are indwelt with His Holy Spirit.

  • We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ has committed two ordinances to the local church: baptism and the Lord’s Supper.

    1) We believe that baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament ordained by Jesus Christ, to be unto the party baptized a sign of fellowship with Him in His death and resurrection; of his being engrafted into Him, of remission of sins, and of giving up into God, through Jesus Christ, to live and walk in newness of life.

    Those who do profess repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ are the only proper subjects of this ordinance.

    The outward element to be used in this ordinance is water, wherein the party if baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

    We practice baptism by immersion because we feel that is most clearly represents the symbols of dying and rising with Christ and the washing of regeneration.

    2) The supper of the Lord Jesus was instituted by Him the night He was betrayed, to be observed in His churches unto the end of the world, for the perpetual remembrance and showing forth the sacrific of Himself in His death, confirmation of the faith of believers in all the benefits thereof, their spiritual nourishment and growth in Him, their further engagement in and to all duties which they owe Him; and to be a bond and pledge of their communion with Him and each other.

    We believe that these two ordinances should be observed and administered until the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.

  • We believe in the personal and visible return of the Lord Jesus Christ to the earth and the consummation of His Kingdom. We believe in the resurrection of the Body, the final judgment, the eternal felicity of the righteous, and the endless suffering of the wicked.