DOCTRINAL STATEMENT
We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as verbally inspired by God. They are inerrant in the original manuscripts. We believe that the Old and New Testaments not only contain the Word of God, but are the Word of God in their entirety. They are the final authority in all subjects on which they speak.
We believe in one God that eternally exists in three persons: God, the Father; Jesus Christ, the Son; and the Holy Spirit.
We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin named Mary, and is true God as well as true man.
We believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned, and thereby incurred both a physical death and a spiritual death, which is separation from God. All human beings are born with the same sinful nature.
We believe that the Lord, Jesus Christ, died for our sins and the sins of all who have ever lived, as well as all who will ever live, in the world. He was buried, and then He bodily rose from the dead in exact concordance to the Scriptures. We believe that He died as a representative and substitutive sacrifice and that all who believe in Him are justified by grace on the basis of His shed blood. We believe that those so justified are eternally preserved through the present ministries of our risen, ascended, glorified Lord, Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Spirit.
We believe that all who, by faith, receive the Lord, Jesus Christ, into their hearts are born-again of and indwelt by the Holy Spirit and, thereby, become children of God. We believe that regenerate man must walk in dependence upon the Holy Spirit in order to please God.
We believe in that "blessed hope": the personal return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ; the bodily resurrection of the just and unjust; the everlasting blessedness of the just; and the everlasting punishment of the unjust.
We believe that the Church, composed of all those who truly believe on the Lord, Jesus Christ, as their Savior, is the Body and Bride of Christ. We believe that Christ is the head of the Body, the Church, and that all believers are baptized into the Body of Christ by the Holy Spirit. We believe that, having thus become members of one another, we are responsible to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
We believe in one God that eternally exists in three persons: God, the Father; Jesus Christ, the Son; and the Holy Spirit.
We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin named Mary, and is true God as well as true man.
We believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned, and thereby incurred both a physical death and a spiritual death, which is separation from God. All human beings are born with the same sinful nature.
We believe that the Lord, Jesus Christ, died for our sins and the sins of all who have ever lived, as well as all who will ever live, in the world. He was buried, and then He bodily rose from the dead in exact concordance to the Scriptures. We believe that He died as a representative and substitutive sacrifice and that all who believe in Him are justified by grace on the basis of His shed blood. We believe that those so justified are eternally preserved through the present ministries of our risen, ascended, glorified Lord, Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Spirit.
We believe that all who, by faith, receive the Lord, Jesus Christ, into their hearts are born-again of and indwelt by the Holy Spirit and, thereby, become children of God. We believe that regenerate man must walk in dependence upon the Holy Spirit in order to please God.
We believe in that "blessed hope": the personal return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ; the bodily resurrection of the just and unjust; the everlasting blessedness of the just; and the everlasting punishment of the unjust.
We believe that the Church, composed of all those who truly believe on the Lord, Jesus Christ, as their Savior, is the Body and Bride of Christ. We believe that Christ is the head of the Body, the Church, and that all believers are baptized into the Body of Christ by the Holy Spirit. We believe that, having thus become members of one another, we are responsible to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
