What We Believe

Bible

We believe that the Bible is the inspired, infallible, inerrant Word of God and is the only rule for faith and practice.

God

We believe in one God who exists in three persons: the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit and that these three are coequal, coeternal and coessential.

Jesus Christ

We believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate, was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, died on the cross for the sins of the world, was buried and rose again. We believe that he is ascended and is seated at the Father’s right hand where he now intercedes for all true believers.

Holy Spirit

We believe the Holy Spirit is come to convict the world of sin; that he comes to teach and guide believers into all truth; that he permanently indwells every true believer in Christ; that he wants to fill, control and empower each believer for service; that all who believe in Christ are baptized by the Holy Spirit into the church, the body of Christ.

Mankind

We believe that man was created in the image of God, but in Adam’s fall, every person is a sinner both by birth and by practice. We believe that every person must be born again in order to be forgiven of his sin and saved from eternal separation from God.

Salvation

We believe that salvation is by grace through faith apart from works and that every true believer will be kept saved forever by the power of God, and that this faith is personally to be in Christ’s substitutionary death on our behalf.

Growth

We believe that the privilege and responsibility of every Christian is to grow into spiritual maturity through obedience to the Word of God and the indwelling Holy Spirit.

Last Things

We believe in the premillennial, pre-tribulation rapture of the church. We believe that the earth will then go through seven years of tribulation and then Jesus Christ will return to earth with his saints to set up his millennial kingdom.

The Church

We believe that the true church is one body composed of all believers, with Jesus Christ as head. We believe that baptism and the Lord’s supper are scriptural ordinances to be observed by the church today.