What We Believe

We Believe:

In the verbal, plenary inspiration of the Bible. It is totally free of any errors in the original manuscripts. The Bible is the supreme standard for faith and conduct.
In one living, eternal and true God, existing in three distinct persons as God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. All three are equal in attributes, power and glory, yet having distinct offices, functions and personalities.
In the absolute deity and perfect humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ; that He had two natures, divine and human, united in one person without mixture and that it was impossible for Him to sin.
In His virgin birth by the Holy Spirit and in His substitutionary death through the shedding of His blood for the forgiveness of sins, in His literal bodily resurrection and ascension, His present High Priestly ministry in Heaven and His personal and imminent return for His redeemed ones.
In His future return to earth with His saints to establish His literal millennial kingdom.
In the absolute deity of the Holy Spirit and that, like Jesus Christ, He is eternal. He is the One who convicts the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. To the believer He is the agent of regeneration, sanctification, baptizing all believers into the body of Christ, indwelling and sealing them unto the day of redemption and exercising the ministry of comfort and teaching.
That mankind was created in the image and likeness of God; that in Adam’s sin the race fell, inherited a sinful nature and became alienated from God. Mankind is totally depraved, unable of himself to redeem his lost condition.
Salvation of the sinner is wholly of grace through personal faith in the Person and finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ and all the redeemed, once saved, are kept by God’s power and are secure in Christ forever. Once saved, a person cannot lose his salvation.
God is sovereign in the bestowment of all gifts to the church and the gifts of evangelist and pastor-teacher are sufficient for the perfecting of the saints today. Speaking in tongues, faith healing, and working of other sign gifts of the Spirit gradually ceased as the New Testament Scriptures were completed and their authority established. God does hear and answer prayers of faith in accordance with His will on behalf of the sick.
The church of Jesus Christ was begun at Pentecost and is the body and bride of Christ, a spiritual organism made up of all born-again persons of this present age. We believe in the local church as defined in the Word of God, specifically the New Testament.
In the premillennial, pretribulational rapture of the church of Jesus Christ.