Statement of Faith

1. We believe the Bible (both old and new testaments) to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God and inerrant in the original writings. We believe what the historic Christian Church has always believed, that the Bible is sufficient for all matters of faith and practice. (Psalm 119:9, 11, 105, 160; Isaiah 55:11; II Timothy 3:16-17)

2. We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in God the Father, Son (Jesus Christ), and Holy Spirit. We believe that God is the personal, transcendent, and sovereign creator of all things. (Genesis 1:1; Deuteronomy 6:4; I John 5:7; John 14:6-12)

3. We believe in the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth (He is fully God and fully man), in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, and in His ascension to the right hand of the Father. (Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 9:6; Isaiah 53:1-12; Matthew 1: 20-23; Luke 2:4-14, 21; John 1:1-5; Romans 1:3-4; Acts 1:9-11; I Corinthians 15:3-4; Hebrews 4:14-15, 9:28, 10:10, 12, 14, 19)

4. We believe in the personal, visible (bodily), and pre-millennial second coming of Jesus Christ to this earth. He will return with His saints and set up His kingdom of which there will be no end. (Matthew 16:27; I Timothy 6:14-15; II Timothy 4:1; Titus 2:13; Revelation 20:6)

5. We believe that all people are by nature, separated from God and responsible for their own sin, but that salvation, redemption, and forgiveness are freely offered to all by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. When a person repents of sin and accepts Jesus Christ as personal savior and Lord, trusting Him to save them, that person is immediately born again and sealed by the Holy Spirit, all his/her sins are forgiven, and that person becomes a child of God, and will spend eternity with the Lord. (John 3:16; Acts 16:31; 17:30; Romans 10:9-10; Ephesians 2:8-9; and II Peter 3:9)

6. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a Godly life. (John 14:25-26, 15:26, 16:7-15; Romans 8:14-16; I Corinthians 2:12; and II Corinthians 3:17)

7. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and unsaved; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are unsaved to the resurrection of damnation. (II Corinthians 5:6-8; II Thessalonians 1:6-9; Revelation 20:11-15)

8. We believe that in prayer each believer has direct access to God through the Lord Jesus Christ. (Matthew 6:9-13; I Thessalonians 5:17; Hebrews 10:19-20)

9. We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. The basis for this unity is the one body, one Spirit, one hope of our calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all (Ephesians 4:3-6)