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Our Beliefs:
The Holy Scriptures
We believe that the original manuscripts of the Old and
New Testaments were verbally inspired by the Living God
and were written under the inspiration of the Holy
Spirit. We believe that they are God’s complete and
final Word of Truth and are the Supreme, Final and only
infallible Authority for faith and conduct.
(2 Timothy 3:16, 17)
The Godhead
We believe in one Triune God, eternally co-existing in
three persons, God the Father, God the Son and God the
Holy Spirit; that each person of the Godhead is separate
and distinct yet having the same attributes of
omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience and that each is
perfect in Holiness and Righteousness.
(1 John 5:7)
The Person & Work of Christ
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son
of God, became man, without ceasing to be God, having
been conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin
Mary, in order that He might reveal God and redeem
sinful men.
(Luke 1:35)
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our
redemption and reconciliation to God through His
finished work on the cross as a substitutionary
sacrifice, in our place; and that our justification is
made sure by His shed blood and literal, physical
resurrection from the dead.
(Romans 3:25)
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to
Heaven, and is now exalted at the right hand of God
where, as our High Priest, He fulfills the ministry as
Representative, Intercessor and Advocate, and the
ONLY mediator between God and man.
(Romans 8:34) (1 Timothy 2:5)
The Person & Work of the Holy Spirit
We
believe that the Holy Spirit is He that reproves the
world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment; and that
He is the Agent in regeneration, baptizing all believers
into the body of Christ, indwelling and sealing them
unto the day of redemption.
(John 16:8-15) (Ephesians 1:13)
We believe that He is the Divine Teacher who enables
believers to understand and appropriate the Scriptures,
having been filled with the Spirit.
(Ephesians 1:17-19)
Man
We believe that man was created in the image and
likeness of God, but that, in Adam’s sin, inherited a
sinful nature, thereby became alienated from God
(Romans 5:12) and is, of
his own merits or efforts, totally unable to remedy his
lost condition. (Ephesians 2:8,
9)
Satan (Lucifer, The Devil)
We believe that Satan, a created angelic being, through
jealousy, pride and rebellion, became the Prince of all
evil and an adversary of God. As accuser and deceiver,
He continues to work in the hearts and minds of men
seeking to thwart the purposes of God.
(1 Peter 5:8)
Ordinances
We embrace
the
Divine Ordinances of remembrance of the Lord’s Supper
(observed on the first Sunday of each month) and
Believers Baptism by single immersion in water (on
request) as directed by the Word of God which are to be
observed until Christ returns.
(1 Corinthians 11:25) (Matthew 28:19)
Second Coming
We believe in the Pre-Tribulational, Pre-Millennial
return of Christ to rapture all believers and that,
after seven years of Tribulation, the Lord will return
to earth to establish His Millennial Kingdom.
(1 Thessalonians 4:15-17)
Marriage and Sexuality
We believe that marriage is the God-ordained union of
one man with one woman and that any and all sexual
activity outside the bonds of that marriage is
Biblically forbidden and condemned as an abomination” by
God.
(Leviticus 18:1-30) (Hebrews 13:4)
Abortion
We believe that human
life begins at conception and that there is NO
legitimate excuse for induced termination of a
pregnancy.
(Psalms 139:14-16)
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