THE WORD OF GOD (Bible): We believe in the written, verbal, and divine inspiration of the Bible as the only infallible and authoritative written Word of God. (Ps. 119, Matt. 4:4, Lk. 24:27, I Tim 3:16).
THE GODHEAD: We believe in one God, eternally co-existent in three Persons; namely, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. (1 Jn. 5:7) We believe that the Father is God, that Jesus is God, and that the Holy Spirit is God. God has shown Himself to us in these three ways; as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
JESUS CHRIST: We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit and was born of the Virgin Mary and is true God and true man (Matt. 1:18-20; John 1:1-2, 14). We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitution sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the basis of His shed blood (I Cor. 15:3; II Cor. 5:21; Rom. 3:21-26). We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into Heaven, and His present life there for us as High Priest and Advocate (Matt. 28-1-10; Acts 1:9; Heb. 7:25-28). We believe in “that blessed hope,” the personal, pre-millennial, and imminent return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ (I Thess. 4:14-17; I Cor. 15:51-53; I Thess. 5:9; Rom. 5:9).
SALVATION: We believe that man was created in the image of God; that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death, but also spiritual death, which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature and in practice become sinners in thought, word, and deed(Gen. 1:26-27; 3:1-24; Rom. 5:12-21; Eph. 2:1-6). We believe that salvation is the gift of God, brought to men by grace and received through personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, whose blood was shed on Calvary for the forgiveness of sins. Salvation is solely by grace through faith in the blood of Christ and apart from human merit.
RESURRECTION: We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of the Father, His virgin birth through the conception of the Holy Ghost, His Sinless Life, His Miracles, His Vicarious and Atoning Death, His Bodily Resurrection, His Ascension to the right hand of the Father as the intercessor, His personal future return to this earth in Power and Glory to rule a thousand years. (Jn. 1:1-4, Eph. 2:13-18, Rev. Chapter. 19 & 20).
CHURCH: We believe in the Church – a living, spiritual body of which Christ is the Head, and of which all regenerated people in this age are a part. We believe that the Church is a body peculiar to the age of grace and is entirely distinct from the nation of Israel. We believe that a local church is a company of believers in Jesus Christ, immersed upon a credible confession of faith, and associated together for worship, work, and fellowship. We believe that the local church is autonomous, the center of God’s program for this age, and that every Christian is bound by Scripture to give his unhindered cooperation to the ministry of his local church (Matt. 16:16-18; I Cor. 12:12-17; Acts 2:42-47; I Tim. 3:15-16).
THE ORDINANCES: We believe that the Scriptural ordinances of the Church are Baptism and the Lord’s Supper; that Baptism, by immersion, should be administered to believers only, as a symbol of their belief in the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and as a testimony to the world of their belief and of their death, burial, and resurrection with Him, and that the Lord’s Supper should be partaken of by believers only, to show forth His death till He comes (Matt. 28:19; Acts 8:36-39; Rom 6:3-5; I Cor. 11:23-32).
THE GREAT COMMISSION: We believe in the spreading of the Gospel as Jesus said, “Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15; Matt. 28:19-20; Acts 1:8).
Finally, we believe in the imminent rapture of the Church to Heaven followed by a seven-year period of tribulation upon all the earth. At the end of this period of tribulation, Jesus Christ shall come back to earth in power and glory with His Church to establish the promised Davidic Kingdom. He shall reign for one thousand years, during which time peace and righteousness will cover the Earth, satan will be bound, and Israel shall be established in her own land. At the end of this glorious reign, satan shall lead a rebellion against Christ, shall be defeated, and shall be forever banished to the lake of fire. The wicked dead shall be judged at the Great White Throne, and shall be condemned to everlasting conscious punishment in the lake of fire. The righteous shall be in eternal conscious blessedness in the presence of the Lord (John 14:3; Matt. 24:21; Rev. 19:11-16; 21:1-15; Ezek. 39:25-29; I Thess. 4:17).
