Holy Scriptures
We believe that the Holy Bible, as originally written, was
verbally inspired by God, and the product of Spirit-controlled men, and
therefore has truth without admixture of error for its matter. We believe that
it is the true center of Christian union, and the only infallible rule for all
human conduct, creeds, and opinions.
II Timothy 3:16 II Peter 1:19
God
We believe that there is only one living and true God, infinite
in every excellence; that in the unity of the Godhead there are three distinct
Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; yet one in substance, and
equal in every divine perfection.
Exodus 20:2-3 1 Corinthians 8:6 1 John 5:7
We believe in the absolute diety of the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ; that He
was divine as no other man can be, being God of very God, existing from all
eternity, co-equal with the Father and the Holy Spirit; that He never ceased
to be God for one instant; and that His humiliation did not consist in laying
aside His deity; that as man He was miraculously begotten of the Holy Ghost
and born of the virgin Mary.
John 1:1-2 I John 5:20 Matthew 1:20
Luke 1:26-28
We believe that the Holy Spirit is a Divine Person, equal with the Father
and Son, and of the same substance and nature; that he convicts of sin,
righteousness and judgment, bears witness to the truth, is the Agent of the
new birth; and that He seals endues, guides, teaches, witnesses to,
sanctifies, and helps the believer, indwelling every true child of God.
II Corinthians 13:14 John 14:16-17
Romans 8:14-27
Satan
We believe in the distinct personality of Satan, that he is the
unholy god of this age, author of all powers of darkness and sin, and is
destines to the judgment of an eternal justice in the Lake of Fire.
Matthew 4:1-3 II Corinthians 4:4
Revelations 20:10
Creation
We believe that God created the heavens and the earth,
including all life, "each after its own kind" by direct creation, in
accordance with the Genesis account, and not by the process of evolution.
Genesis 1:2 Colossians 1:16-17 John
1:3
Fall of Man
We believe that man, in the person of the first Adam, was
created in innocence, but by voluntary transgression fell into sin, this
plunging the whole race into condemnation and death, so that now all mankind
in born in sin, and shapen in iniquity, and become willful sinners with the
first expression of personal choice, and so are without excuse before God.
Genesis 3 Romans 5:10-19
Salvation by Grace
We believe that faith in the finished work of the Lord Jesus
Christ is the only condition of salvation from sin, and this salvation is
wholly by grace; that no works, however good, make that salvation more secure.
Acts 16:31 Ephesians 2:8-9 Titus
3:5-7 Romans 10:9-13
Redemption from Sin
We believe that the only escape from the condemnation of sin is
through the redemption wrought by Jesus Christ, Who, by the appointment of the
Father, freely took upon Him the form and likeness of man, yet without sin,
and honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and by His death made a
full and vicarious atonement for our sins; that His atonement consisted not in
setting us an example by His death as a martyr, but was voluntary substitution
of Himself in the sinners’ place, the just dying for the unjust; Christ the
Lord bearing our sin in His own body on the tree; that, having risen from the
dead, He is now exalted in Heaven, and uniting in His wonderful Person the
tenderest sympathies with divine perfection, He is in every way qualified to
be a suitable, a compassionate and an all-sufficient Savior.
John1:1-3;14 John 3:7,16 Romans
3:24-25 Matthew 18:11 Philippians
2:7 Hebrews 10:4-14 Hebrews 2:4
Acts 16:30-33 Acts 15:11 Ephesians 2:8
Isaiah 53:4-7 I John 4:10
I Corinthians 15:3 II Corinthians 5:21
The Church
We believe that the church universal is a New Testament
institution, unknown to the Old Testament prophets; established by Jesus
Christ, Who is its sole Head; revealed through the Holy Spirit; His "body" for
service, and His "bride" fro glory. It began with the New Testament saints,
and will be consummated at the coming of Christ in the Rapture.
Ephesians 1:22-23 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
Matthew 16:18 Acts 1:8, 2:1-13 Acts 2:41,
47; 15:41 Romans 16:26
1 Corinthians 12:12-28 Ephesians 3:21; 5:23-33
We believe that the church universal is manifest through the local church
which is a congregation of immersed believers, associated by the covenant of
faith and the fellowship of the Gospel; observing the ordinances of Christ;
governed by His laws exercising the gifts, rights and privileges invested in
it by His Word; that its officers are bishops (pastors or elders) and deacons;
that it has absolute right of self-government directed by the Holy Spirit, and
it is answerable only to Christ; and that in all matters of membership,
policy, government, discipline, and benevolence, the will of the local church
is final.
Matthew 18:15-17 1 Corinthians 1:2; 6:4-5; 7:17; 11:16
1 Timothy 3:1-15
Ordinances
We believe that there are two (2) ordinances: baptism and the
Lord’s Supper.
Baptism is the immersion of the believer in water, and is properly called
"believer’s baptism." It sets forth, in a beautiful and solemn way, our faith
in a crucified buried, and risen Savior, with the effects of that faith in our
lives as it produces death to sin and resurrection to a new life. Baptism is a
prerequisite to the privileges of church relation.
The Lord’s Supper is the commemoration of our Lord’s death "until he
comes," and our continual fellowship with Him; it should be preceded by
careful self-examination.
Acts 8:36-39 Romans 6:3-5 I
Corinthians 11:23-32
Righteous and Wicked
We believe that there is a radical and essential difference
between the righteous and the wicked; that only such as through faith are
justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and sanctified by the Spirit
of God, are truly righteous in God’s esteem; while all such who continue in
impenitence and unbelief are in the His sight wicked, and under the curse; and
that this distinction holds among men both during life, and death, in the
everlasting conscious suffering of the lost in literal Hell.
Romans 6:17-23 Matthew 25:41 Colossians
1:5 Revelation 21:8 John 14:2-3
Revelation 20:10
The Return of Christ
We believe in the imminent, bodily, personal, premillennial
return of Jesus Christ; that He will come before the seven-year tribulation
period to catch away His Church, coming only into the air; and that He will
come with His Church at the close of the tribulation to judge the living
nations and to set up His Kingdom on earth.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Matthew 25:31-46
Revelation 19:11-21
The Resurrection
We believe in the resurrection of the bodies of the dead; that
the believers asleep in Jesus will be raised at the coming of Christ for His
Church, and will be caught up with transformed saints to meet the Lord in the
air; and that the wicked dead will be raised at the close of the millennial
kingdom, and stand in their bodies at the Great White Throne of Judgment to
receive their final doom.
John 5:21-30 1 Thessalonians 4:15
Revelation 7:9-17 Revelation 20:11-15
Civil Government
We believe that civil government is of divine appointment for
the interest and good order of human society; that magistrates are to be
prayed for, conscientiously honored and obeyed, except in the things opposed
to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who is the only Lord of the conscience
and the coming Prince of the kings of the earth.
Romans 13:1-7 2 Samuel 23:3 Exodus
18:21-22 Acts 23:5 Matthew 22:21
Acts 5:20; 4:19-20 Daniel 3:17-18
