WHAT WE BELIEVE

The members of this Church believe

and adhere to the following

statement of faith. . .



BIBLE
We believe the Bible to be the complete word of God (II Timothy 3:16, Luke 24:27 and II Peter 3:15-16), that the sixty-six books, as originally written, comprising the Old and New Testaments were verbally inspired by the Spirit of God (II Peter 1:20-21) and therefore entirely free from error (Psalm 19:7-8 and Titus 1:1); that the Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and practice and the true basis of Christian union (II Timothy 3:16-17, Deuteronomy 4:2 and Revelation 22:18-19).

GOD
We believe in one God (Deuteronomy 6:4 and Romans 3:30), Creator of all, holy, sovereign, eternal, existing in three equal persons (Genesis 1:26 and Isaiah 6:8), The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19, John 1:1 and Acts 5:3-4).

CHRIST
We believe in the absolute and essential deity of Jesus Christ (Matthew 28:19 and John 5:18), in His eternal existence with the Father in preincarnate glory, in His virgin birth (Luke 1:34-35), sinless life (II Corinthians 5:21), substitutionary death (I Timothy 2:6 and Romans 3:25), bodily resurrection (Matthew 28:6 and John 20:24-28), triumphant ascension (Ephesians 1:20), mediatorial ministry (I Timothy 2:5), and personal return.

THE HOLY SPIRIT
We believe in the absolute and essential deity (Matthew 28:19) and personality of the Holy Spirit who convinces of sin, of righteousness and judgment; Who regenerates (John 16:8-9 and Titus 3:5), sanctifies, illuminates and comforts those who believe in Jesus Christ (Galatians 5:22-23,I John 2:27,I John 15:8).

SATAN
We believe that Satan exists as an evil personality, the origination of sin, the archenemy of God and man (Genesis 3; Isaiah 14:11-20).

MAN
We believe that man was divinely created in the image of God; that he sinned becoming guilty before God, resulting in total depravity, thereby incurring physical and spiritual death (Genesis 1:26; Genesis 3; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:23; Revelation 20:11-15).

SALVATION
We believe that salvation is by sovereign, electing grace of God (Ephesians 1, 2:8,9) that by the appointment of the Father (John 3:16), Christ voluntarily suffered a vicarious, expiatory death (Romans 5); that justification is by faith alone in the all sufficient sacrifice and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and that those whom God has effectually called shall be divinely preserved and finally perfected in the image of the Lord (Romans 8).

FUTURE THINGS
We believe in the personal, bodily, and glorious return of the Lord Jesus Christ; in the resurrection of the just and the unjust; in the eternal blessedness of the redeemed and in the judgement and eternal conscious punishment of the wicked (Revelation 19, 20).

THE LOCAL CHURCH
We believe that a Church is a company of immersed believers (Acts 2, 8, 10), called out from the world, separated unto the Lord Jesus, voluntarily associated for the ministry of the Word, the mutual edification of its' members, the propagation of the faith and the observance of the ordinances (Acts 2:42-44). We believe it is a sovereign, independent body, exercising its' own divinely awarded gifts, precepts and privileges under the Lordship of Christ (1 Corinthians 12), the Great Head of the Church. We believe that its' officers are Pastors and Deacons (1 Timothy 3, 1 Peter 5:4, Philippians 1:1).

ORDINANCES
We believe that there are only two ordinances for the Church regularly observed in the New Testament in the following order: Baptism, which is the immersion of the believer in water whereby he obeys Christ's command, sets forth his identification with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection (Matthew 28:17-20). The Lord's Supper which is the memorial wherein the believer partakes of the two elements, bread and wine, which symbolize the Lord's body and the shed blood, proclaiming His death until He comes (1 Corinthians 11:17-34).

THE CHURCH AND THE STATE
We believe in the entire separation of Church and State.

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
We believe in religious liberty; that every man has the right to practice and propagate his beliefs.

THE LORD’S DAY
We believe that the first day of the week is the Lord's Day and that, in a special sense, it is the divinely appointed day for worship and spiritual exercise. We further believe that under the New Covenant every day belongs to the Lord, that worship is not confined to Sunday and that we now live with the freedom to hold worship services on any day of the week (Acts 2:46-47, 1 Corinthians 10:31).

CIVIL GOVERNMENT
We believe that civil government is of divine appointment for the interest and good order of society; that magistrates are to be prayed for, conscientiously honoured and obeyed, except only in the things opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who is the only Lord of the conscience and Prince of the Kings of the earth (Romans 13:1-8).

MARRIAGE
We believe that marriage is the covenantal union of one man with one woman before a company of witnesses and God. We believe that any union between a man and a woman attested to by a company of witnesses and before God, that ceremony however performed, constitutes marriage, whether Christian or non-Christian. As a church we will do all in our power to strengthen, support and uphold the gift of marriage between one man and one woman in covenantal relationship. (Genesis 1:27, 28; 2; Matthew 5; Matthew 19; 1 Corinthians 7).

Please feel free to contact us if you have any further questions regarding any of our beliefs.