Statement of Faith
(A) The Holy Scriptures
We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the verbally and written inspired Word of God. The Scriptures are inerrant, infallible and God-breathed, and therefore are the final authority for faith and life. The sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments are the complete and divine revelation of God to man. The scriptures shall be interpreted according to their normal grammatical-historical meaning. The King James Version and other translations will be used.
(B) Dispensationalism
We believe that the Scriptures interpreted in their natural, literal sense reveal divinely determined dispensations or rules of life which define man's responsibilities in successive ages. These dispensations are not ways of salvation, but rather are divinely ordered stewardships by which God directs man according to His purpose. Three of these dispensations - the age of law, the age of the Church, and the age of the kingdom - are the subjects of the Church detailed revelation in scripture.
(C) The Godhead
We believe in one Triune God, eternally existing in three persons namely the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost, each co-eternal in being, co-identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections.
(D) The Person and Work of Christ
(1) We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man, without ceasing to be God, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful men.
(2) We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through His death on the cross as a representative, vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice; and, that our justification is made sure by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead.
(3) We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to Heaven, and is now exalted at the right hand of God, where, as our High Priest, He fulfills the ministry of Representative, Intercessor, and Advocate.
(E)The Person and Work of the Holy Ghost
We believe the Holy Ghost convicts the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment; and, that He is the Supernatural Agent in regeneration, baptizing all believers into the body of Christ, indwelling and sealing them unto the day of redemption.
We believe that He is the Divine Teacher who assists believers to understand and appropriate the Scriptures and that it is the privilege and duty of all the saved to be filled with the Spirit as evidenced outwardly with speaking in other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance.
We believe that God is sovereign in the bestowal of spiritual gifts to every believer. God uniquely uses evangelists, pastors, and teachers to equip believers, in the assembly, in order that they can do the work of the ministry.
(F) The Total Depravity of Man
We believe that man was created in the image of likeness of God, but that in Adam's sin the human race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God; and, that man is totally depraved, and of himself, utterly unable to remedy his lost condition.
(G) Salvation
We believe that salvation is the gift of God brought to man by grace and received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, Whose precious blood was shed on Calvary for the forgiveness of our sins.
We believe that it is the privilege of believers to rejoice in the assurance of their salvation through the testimony of God's Word, which, however, clearly forbids the use of Christian liberty as an occasion to the flesh.
(H) The Church
We believe that the local church, which is the body of the espoused bride of Christ, is solely made up of born-again persons.
We believe that the establishment and continuance of local churches is clearly taught and defined in the New Testament Scriptures.
We believe in the autonomy of the local church free of any external authority or control.
We recognize water baptism and Communion as the Scriptural ordinances of obedience for the Church in this age.
(I) Separation
We believe that all the saved should live in such a manner not to bring reproach upon their Savior and Lord; and, that separation from all religious apostasy, all worldly sinful pleasures, practices, and associations is commanded of God.
(J) The Second Advent of Christ
We believe in that “blessed hope” the personal, imminent return of Christ who will rapture His Church prior to the seven-year tribulation period. At the end of the Tribulation, Christ will personally and visibly return, with His saints, to establish His earthly Messianic Kingdom which was promised to the Nation of Israel.
(K) The Eternal Statement
We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life, and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment. We believe that the souls of the redeemed are, at death, absent from the body and present with the Lord, where in conscious bliss they await the first resurrection, when spirit, soul, and body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord.
We believe that the souls of unbelievers remain, after death, in conscious punishment and torment until the second resurrection, when with soul and body reunited they shall appear at the Great White Throne Judgment, and shall be cast into the Lake of Fire, not to be annihilated, but to suffer everlasting conscious punishment and torment.
(L) The Personality of Satan
We believe that Satan is the author of sin and the cause of the fall of man; that he is the open and declared enemy of God and man and, that he shall be eternally punished in the lake of fire.
(M) Creation
We believe that God created the universe. We reject evolution, the Gap Theory, the Day-Age Theory, and Theistic Evolution as un-scriptural theories of origin.
(N) Human Sexuality
We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity should be engaged in outside of marriage between a man and a woman. We believe that any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, bestiality, incest, fornication, adultery, and pornography are sinful perversions of God's gift of sex.
(O) Abortion
We believe that human life begins at conception and that the unborn child is a living human being. Abortion constitutes the unjustified, unexcused taking of unborn human life. Abortion is murder, we reject any teaching that abortions of pregnancies due to rape, incest, birth defects, gender selection, or population control, or the mental well-being of the mother are acceptable.
(P) Giving
We believe that every Christian, as a steward of that portion of God's wealth entrusted to him, is obligated to support his/her local church financially. We believe that God has established the tithe as a basis for giving but that every Christian should also give other offerings sacrificially and cheerfully to the support of the Church, there relief of those in need, and the spread of the Gospel. We believe that Christian relinquishes all rights to direct the use of the tithe or offering once the gift has been made.
(Q) Holiness
(1) We believe Holiness is commanded in the Word and is God’s standard of living for His people. We believe that those saved should live a separate, set apart life from the world. We believe that Holiness isn’t in your hair, in your clothes, or even in your jewelry, but it’s something done on the inside shown on the outside. Holiness is a standard to be raised above all else and to conduct ourselves in such a manner that everyone around can tell us apart.
(R) Holy Ghost
(1) We believe in Speaking in other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance. We believe that this is instructed in the Word of God and is a free gift, just as salvation, awaiting any believer that wishes to accept it. We believe that the Holy Ghost was given to us after Jesus was resurrected from the tomb on the third day. It was given to be our guide when we don’t know what to do; when we don’t know what to pray!
(2)We believe that speaking in tongues is a prayer language given by the Holy Ghost so that when we don’t understand what to pray, God uses us as a vessel of honor. We believe all believer’s have the Holy Ghost, but not all have the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
(S) Divine Healing
We believe that Divine Healing is offered to all who believe and is given to all in the Atonement. We believe that Divine Healing and faith go hand in hand. In the Word of God when someone came to the Lord for healing, Jesus would state, “Your FAITH has made you whole.”
(T) Baptism
We believe that Baptism by full immersion is the only way given by scripture. Your body must go completely under the water because you are taking off the old man and putting on the new. It’s the literal Death, Burial and Resurrection of Christ. When He died, our sins died with Him, He was buried and resurrected and this meant that our new man was clean of all sin.
