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What We Believe
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.... the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, is supernaturally inspired, so that it is inerrant in the original manuscripts and preserved by God in its plenary inspiration, so that it is a divinely authoritative standard for every age and every life. .... in one God that eternally exists and reveals Himself in three persons - Father, Son, Holy Spirit - having each the same nature, attributes and perfections, worthy of the same worship and confidence. .... in God as absolute and sole Creator and Sustainer of the universe, and that creation was by divine command, from nothing and not through an evolutionary process. .... that God, by His sovereign choice and out of love for men, sent Christ into the world to save sinners. We believe that Jesus Christ was fully God in flesh and fully man, that He was born of a virgin and that He lived a sinless life, in which He taught and performed mighty works and wonders and signs exactly as revealed in the Scriptures. .... that He was crucified, shed His blood, died to pay the penalty for our sins and was raised bodily from the dead on the third day. Forty days later He ascended to the Father's right hand where He is Head of the Church and intercedes for believers. From there He is coming again personally, bodily and visibly to this earth to set up His millennial kingdom. .... that the Holy Spirit, as God possesses all the divine attributes. He convicts of sin, regenerates, indwells, baptizes and seals all believers at the moment of their salvation, filling them in response to yieldedness with the goal of conforming them to the image of Christ. .... that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam's sin the race fell, inherited a sinful nature and became alienated from God. .... that all men are morally corrupt, and of themselves utterly unable to remedy their lost condition. .... that salvation is a gift of God and is received by man through personal faith in Jesus Christ and His sacrifice for sin. .... that man is justified by grace through faith apart from works and that all true believers, once saved, are kept secure in Christ forever. .... that the true Church is composed of all persons who are regenerated by the Holy Spirit through saving faith in Jesus Christ; that they are united together in the body of Christ of which He is Lord and Head; and are commissioned for the God-given tasks of worshiping, fellowship, teaching, evangelizing and exercising the spiritual gifts. .... that the local church is taught in the New Testament and is autonomous and free of any external authority or control. .... the ordinances for the believer are water baptism by immersion and the Lord's supper as a memorial. They are, however, not to be regarded as a means of salvation, but both are evidence of obedience and fellowship with the Lord. .... the Christian should walk in holiness and not after the flesh, with the goal of being conformed to the image of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. .... the Christian will stand before the judgment seat of Christ to have his life evaluated according to his deeds. .... in the personal, premillennial and imminent coming of our Lord Jesus. .... in the bodily resurrection of the dead, of the believer to everlasting glory and the unbeliever to judgment and everlasting conscious judgment.
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