Doctrinal Statement

Doctrinal Statement

1. We believe in the only true God. We believe that the Godhead eternally exists in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
(John 17:3; Matthew 28:19-20)

2. We believe in the total deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe He is the manifestation of God in the flesh. We believe He was born of the virgin Mary.
(John 1:1,14,18; John 14:8-9; 1 Timothy 3:16)

3. We believe that the ministry of the Holy Spirit is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ during this age.
(Romans 8:9-17)

4. We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as verbally inspired of God, and inerrant in the original writings, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life. We recognize no other revelation in writings or in life other that the Old and New Testament and Jesus Christ.
(2 Timothy 3:16)

5. We believe that man was created in innocence under the law of his Maker, but by voluntary transgression fell from his sinless state. We believe that without exception every man is totally depraved and needs a Savior.
(Genesis 3:1-6; Romans 3:10-19; Romans 1:18, 32)

6. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice. We believe that all who, by faith, receive Him as their personal Savior are justified on the basis of His blood shed on Calvary.
(Romans 5:8; 10:9-10)

7. We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into heaven, and in His present life there for us, as high priest and advocate.
(Romans 8:34; 1 Corinthians 15:3-8)

8. We believe in “that blessed hope,” the personal, pre-millennial and imminent return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
(1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)

9. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting, conscious punishment of the lost.
(Revelations 20:11-15; Acts 24:15)

10. We believe that the local church is a body of believers, organized for worship, work, and fellowship, that the two ordinances of the church are baptism (immersion) and the Lord’s Supper; that the local church is an independent and self-governing body responsible alone to Christ who is its Savior and Lord.
(1 Timothy 3:15; Matthew 28:18-20; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26)