What We Believe

STATEMENT OF FAITH

The Holy Scriptures

We believe the Holy Scriptures to be the verbal, inspired words of God, authoritative and without error in the original writings. We further believe that the scriptures of both the Old and New Testaments are designed for our practical instruction in faith and conduct.

2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:21

The Godhead

We believe that there is only One God, eternally existent in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

Deuteronomy 6:4; Genesis 1:26; Matthew 28:19

The Person and Work of the Lord Jesus Christ

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, came into the world that he might manifest God to men, fulfill prophecy, and become the Redeemer of a lost world. To this end, He was born of a Virgin Mary, received a human body and sinless human nature without ceasing to be God.

Luke 1:30-35; John 1:1, 14, 18; Hebrews 4:15; Philippians 2:5-11

The Holy Spirit

We believe the Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Triune Godhead who convicts men of sin, causes spiritual birth, indwells, seals, sanctifies, guides, equips, teaches, and fills the believer; thus enabling him to walk in obedience to God and His word.

Romans 5:5; 8:1-9; Galatians 5:16-25

Salvation

We believe that no one can enter the Kingdom of God unless born again spiritually, and that the new birth of the believer comes only through the faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. We believe also that our redemption has been accomplished by the grace of God, an unmerited gift, given in love by God and not the results of human works.

John 3:17-18; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 3; 13; Romans 4:4-5

The Rapture and The Second Coming of Christ

We believe in the personal, bodily return of the Lord to remove from the earth His waiting church and to reward them according to their works. We believe in that future period of great tribulation in the earth in which the judgments will climax with the return of Christ to the earth.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-17; Zechariah 14:4-11; Revelation 3:10

Eternal States

We believe at death, the spirits and souls of those who have trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation pass immediately into His presence and there remain in conscious bliss until the resurrection of the glorified body when Christ comes for His own; whereupon soul and body reunited shall be associated with Him forever in glory. All those who rejected Jesus Christ will eternally be separated from God to endure His eternal wrath forever.

2 Corinthians 5:8; Revelation 20: 11-15; 21: 1-7