Our Core Beliefs
The following Statement of Core Beliefs does not exhaust the extent of our faith. The Bible itself, as the inspired and infallible Word of God that speaks with final authority concerning truth, morality, and the proper conduct of mankind, is the sole and final source of all that we believe.
(Herein after referred to as the Bible) to be verbally inspired of God and is the eternal, immutable, supreme, authoritative, authentic and the infallible rule of faith and practice. (I Cor. 2:13; 2 Tim. 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21; Matt. 5:18; John 5:39).
Who is eternally and mysteriously existing in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; these three are coexistent, coequal and coeternal. (Deut. 6:4; II Cor. 13:14; Hebrews 1:1-3; Rev. 1:4-6).
In the incarnation through the Virgin Birth, and in His essential deity in His substitutionary and atoning death providing redemption through His shed blood; in His bodily resurrection; in His ascension and exaltation into Heaven; in His present mediatorial High Priestly office; in the gift of the Person of the Holy Spirit to all born-again believers in Jesus Christ; and in our Lord’s personal, visible, premillennial, imminent return, and in His ultimate Kingdom and reign. (John 1:1-2; Luke 1:35; Romans 3:24-25; 4:25; 1 Peter 1:3-5; Hebrews 9:24; 7:25; 1 John 2:1-2; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; Zech. 14:4-11; Revelations 20:6).
That all people are sinners and are justified before God only on the ground of faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 2:8-10; Titus 2:11-14; Romans 4:1-4; 10:3-4; 2 Cor. 5:21; Eph. 1:6;2:13).
All of the redeemed, once saved, are kept by God’s power and thus are secure in Jesus Christ forever. (Romans 8:1, 38-39; John 10:27-30; 1 Cor. 1:4-8; Phil. 1:6; II Timothy 1:12; John 17:11).
The everlasting joy and blessing of the saved and the everlasting punishment of the lost. (Mark 9:43-48; Revelations 20:15; 22:3-5, 11; Jude 1:6-7; 2 These. 1:7-9; 2 Corinthians 5:8-10).
Local church joined together for the worship of God, for edification through the Word of God, for prayer, for relationship with one another, for proclamation of the Gospel and for observance of the ordinances of the Lord’s Supper and Water Baptism by immersion. (Eph. 1:22-23; 5:25-27; 1 Cor. 12:12-14; 1 Tim. 3:15; Heb. 13:15; Col. 2:7; 1 Cor. 11:23-32; Acts. 10:47-48; Matt. 28:18-20).
Must be free from interference by any ecclesiastical or political authority. (1 Cor. 5:13; Acts 6:1-6; 1 Cor. 6:1-5; Acts 15:1-2, 22-25, 30).
It begun in the believer’s life in regeneration and continued in the believer’s life by the Holy Spirit, and is demonstrated by spiritual fruit in the believer’s life.(1 Cor. 1:2; Heb. 10:10-12; 2 Peter 3:18; 1 Thess- 3:12; Galatians 5:22-23; 1 These. 5:23; Phil. 1:6; 1 John 3:2; Eph. 2:8-10; Romans 10:9; Acts 2:21; Rom. 7:18; Matthew 7:16-20).