Who We Are

We believe that the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, are the plenary-verbal inspired Word of God; that they are inerrant in the original writings; and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and practice.

(Matthew 5:18; Luke 24:27, 44; John 16:12-13; 1 Timothy 5:17-18; 2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21, 3:15b-16)

We believe that the one true God eternally exists in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit; and that these three are one God having precisely the same nature, attributes, and perfections, and worthy of precisely the same worship, confidence, and obedience, each one executing distinct but harmonious functions in the great work of redemption.

(Genesis 1:26; Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 46:9-10; Matthew 3:16-17; 28:18-20; Mark 12:29; John 1:14; Acts 5:3-4; 2 Corinthians 13:14; Ephesians 1:1-14; Titus 3:3-7; Hebrews 1:1-3; 1 Peter 1:2-3; Revelation 1:4-6)

We believe that Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, and is true God and true man. He was born in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful humanity. We believe that He accomplished our redemption through His sinless life and death on the cross as a voluntary, substitutionary sacrifice. We believe that our redemption is made sure by His literal, bodily resurrection from the dead. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is now in heaven exalted at the right hand of God. There, He serves His people as the High Priest, fulfilling the ministry of Representative, Intercessor, and Advocate as the one mediator between God and man.

(Luke 1:32-35; John 1:1-2; 1:14, 20:28; Acts 1; Romans 3:24-25, 4:25; 8:34; Hebrews 7:25, 9:24; 1 Peter 1:3-5; 1 John 2:1-2)

We believe that the Holy Spirit is the eternal third person of the Trinity. The Spirit brings about conviction of sins and repentance that leads to salvation. The Holy Spirit convicts, regenerates the believing sinner, indwells, guides, instructs, and empowers the believer for Godly living, service, and worship. All of this He does chiefly to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ and to testify of Him.

(John 14:26, 16:13-15; Romans 8:4, 26-27; 1 Corinthians 2:14, 3:16, 6:12, 19; Ephesians 1:13-14, 4:30; 1 John 2:27)

We believe that all humanity, male and female, is created in the image and likeness of God in order to enjoy relationship with Him and fulfill His purposes. When Adam sinned, he lost his spiritual life, becoming dead in his trespasses and sin and became subject to the power of the devil. As a result of Adam’s sin, all people are born spiritually dead and experience both physical and spiritual death apart from faith in Jesus Christ and the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

(Genesis 1:27, 1:31, 2:16-17, 3:6-24, 6:12; Psalm 51:5; Isaiah 53:6; Matthew 20:15; Acts 17:26-29; Romans 1:18-32, 2:1-16, 3:9-18, 5:12, 5:15-19, 8:7; Galatians 3:2, 3:10; Ephesians 2:1-3)

We believe salvation is authored by God and accomplished by grace through faith in Jesus Christ whose precious blood was shed for the forgiveness of our sins. At the moment of salvation, all believers are baptized and sealed in the Holy Spirit. Every believer’s salvation is secure, being kept by the power of God. However, a believer by disobedience can mar his fellowship with God, lose his joy and testimony, and ultimately incur the Father’s loving discipline. While we do not believe good works are meritorious in obtaining salvation, we do believe that good works are an evidence of salvation.

(Psalm 34:1-22; Isaiah 42:21, 53:4-5; Matthew 20:28; John 1:1-14, 3:16; Acts 15:11; Romans 3:21-26, 4:25; 1 Corinthians 3:5-7, 15:1-3; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 4:4-5; Ephesians 2:3; Philippians 2:8-9, 14; Colossians 2:18, 3:1-4; Hebrews 1:3, 1:8, 7:25-26, 9:13-15, 12:24; 1 John 2:3, 4:10)

We believe that the Church is the body of Christ sent into the world to shine forth the glory of God. The Church is made up of those who have become followers of Jesus Christ and have personally appropriated the gospel. The Church exists to worship and glorify God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The ministry of the Church is an extension of the ministry of Jesus in the power of the Spirit of which Christ serves as the head. The Church is called to make disciples through worship, prayer, teaching of the Word, observance of the ordinances, fellowship, the exercise of gifts and talents, and the proclamation of the gospel both in our community and throughout the world.

(Matthew 16:16–18; Acts 2:42–47; Romans 12:5; 1 Corinthians 12:12–27; Ephesians 1:20–24; 4:3–10; Colossians 3:14–15)

We believe the Lord Jesus left for the church two ordinances to be practiced and observed during this present age: Baptism by immersion and the Lord’s Supper. We believe that Christian Baptism is the immersion in water of a believer, into the name of the Father, and Son, and Holy Spirit; to show forth in a solemn and beautiful emblem, our faith in the crucified, buried, and risen Savior, with its effect, in our death to sin and resurrection to a new life. The Lord’s Supper is the practice in which the members of the church by the use of bread and wine, are to commemorate together his sacrificial death and imminent return; it is to be preceded always by solemn self-examination.

(Matthew 3:5-6, 26:26-29, 28:19-20; Mark 14:22-25,16:16; Luke 22:14-20; John 3:22-23, 4:12, 6:26; Acts 2:38, 2:41-42, 8:12, 8:36-39, 10:47-48,16:32-34,18:8, 22:16; Romans 6:4; 1 Corinthians 5:1-8, 11:17-32; Galatians 3:26-28; Colossians 2:12; 1 Peter 3:20-21)

We believe that Satan is an actual created being and not an imaginary influence. As the leader of the host of fallen angels, he is the open and declared enemy of God and God’s people. He is a deceiver and destroyer of human lives whose destiny is eternal punishment.

(Genesis 3:1-6; Job 1:6-12; Isaiah 14:12-20; Ezekiel 28:12; John 8:44; 2 Corinthians 4:3-4; Ephesians 2:2, 6:12; 1 Peter 5:8; Revelation 12:10, 19:20, 20:10)

We believe that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as male or female. These two distinct, complementary genders together reflect the image and nature of God. We believe that the term “marriage” has only one meaning: the uniting of one man and one woman in a single, exclusive union, as delineated in Scripture. We believe that God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman who are married to each other.

(Genesis 1:26-27, 2:18-25; Matthew 19:5-61; Corinthians 6:18; 7:2-5; Hebrews 13:4)

We believe that as Christians we are to live in anticipation of the personal return of Jesus Christ. While the exact time of Christ’s return is unknown, it is imminent and certain. We believe in the reality of both heaven and hell and that believers, at death, will be received into the presence of God. There they will live out perfect relationships with God and with each other for all eternity. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the just to everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the unjust to the everlasting condemnation of the lost.

(Psalm 139:13; Isaiah 65:17-25; John 3:16-18; John 3:36; 1 Corinthians 15:51-53; 2 Corinthians 5:5-8; Philippians 1:21-23; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 20-21)