Brief Overview of our Statement of Faith
1. HOLY SCRIPTURES
We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are verbally inspired of God, and preserved in the King James Bible 1611 for the english speaking world. That the Scriptures are inerrant, infallible, and are the supreme and final authority
for faith and practice.
2. TRIUNE GODHEAD
We believe in only one God existing in three persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are co-equal in power and glory as well as co-eternal.
3. INCARNATION
We believe that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God, conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin. We believe in the eternal Sonship of Christ, meaning that He always has been the Son of God, and always will be.
4. HOLY SPIRIT
We believe the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Triune Godhead, convicts the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. He indwells the believer and empowers the preaching and teaching of the Gospel.
5. MAN
We believe that man, created in the image of God 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. Every born again believer possesses two natures (the old man and the new man). All claims as to the eradication of the old nature are heretical. We will never lose the sin nature until we go to be with Christ.
6. ATONEMENT
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our Sins according to the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice and that all who believe in Him are justified by, His blood.
7. RESURRECTION, ASCENSION, ADVOCACY
We believe in the literal resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, His ascension into Heaven and His present life there as High Priest and Advocate for us.
8. SALVATION
We believe that salvation is by the grace of God, received as a free gift by a repentant sinner who in faith trusts Christ as Lord and Saviour. Salvation was accomplished by Christ's death and most importantly through His sinless shed blood upon the cross. Without His shed blood salvation could never be possible. Salvation is solely upon the merit of what Christ has done for us, including His resurrection from the dead on the third day. Once redeemed we are kept by the power and grace of God, eternally secure in Christ. We can never lose our salvation under any condition. This is NOT a license to sin, but liberty to please the Lord Jesus Christ who has saved us FROM sin and not IN sin.
10. FUTURE STATE
All men shall receive a bodily resurrection; the saved to eternal life and unsaved to eternal damnation. Prior to the resurrection death holds the presence of God for the believer in soul and spirit, with the body resuming to the grave, asleep, and awaiting the future resurrection. For the unbeliever, death means the departure of the soul and spirit into hell-fire, with the body also awaiting a future resurrection, at which time death and hell shall be cast into the Lake of Fire.
11. SATAN
We believe in a personal devil, Satan, the old deceiver, a liar from the beginning; who is still working in the world to destroy the souls of men, and that he will be cast, with all his angels and all who will not receive Christ as Saviour and Lord, in to the Lake of Fire, to be eternally tormented.
12. CHURCH
We believe in the church, the body of Christ, whose mission is given in Matthew 28:19, 20. "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and, lo I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen." All of the church's endeavors should be supported by God's financial plan of tithes, offerings, and faith promise. Each local church is to be independent and autonomous and free from political authority or ecclesiastical hierarchy, the Lord Jesus being the only Head.
13. BIBLICAL SEPARATION
We believe in the believer's separation from the world and in his striving for the holiness unto which God has called His children. The believer should "abstain from all appearance of evil." The Bible, in principle, clearly teaches us to separate from all apostasy and heresy, including Liberalism, Modernism, Ecumenism, Neo-Evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, Charismatics, Amillenialism, Post-millenialism and all other movements not in agreement with the holy word of God.
14. ORDINANCES
In obedience to the Lord, only born again believers should be baptized (fully immersed) in water to demonstrate his faith in Christ and to typify the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord's supper should be done often as a memorial of what Christ has done for the believer. As clearly taught in the Bible, the wine is unfermented and therefore new, and the bread is unleavened symbolic of the pure and spotless life of Christ.