What we Believe


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What we Believe


 SCRIPTURE

We believe that the Bible, composed of the Old and New Testament, is the Word of God, inerrant, infallible in the original and is the sufficient and final authority in faith and life.
(Psalm 19: 7-11; 119: 1-176; 2 Timothy 3: 16-17)

TRINITY

We believe in one God eternally existent in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; coexistent, eternal, omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent.
(Deuteronomy 6: 4; Isaiah 40: 28; 57: 15; Matthew 28: 18-20; Psalm 139: 1-4, 7-10; Revelation 19: 11-16)



JESUS AS GOD AND MAN

We believe that Jesus Christ is the only begotten of the Father, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, and that He is the true God and true Man and is the only and sufficient mediator between God and man.
(John 1: 14; Matthew 1: 18-25; Colossians 1: 19; 2: 9; 1 Timothy 2: 5-6)



HOLY SPIRIT

We believe in the personality of the Holy Spirit and that His ministry is to reveal Christ to mankind in the regeneration and sanctification of their souls, baptizing all believers into the body of Christ and filling believers as they permit.
(Genesis 1: 2; Acts 2: 3-4; John 14: 25-26; 1 Corinthians 12: 13; Titus 3: 5-6)

CREATION AND FALL OF MANKIND
We believe that mankind was created in the image of God, and that Adam sinned and thereby incurred spiritual death for all mankind.  As spiritually dead, mankind has no ability to please the Lord.  By God's gracious, merciful and loving character, He has provided forgiveness and redemption from mankind's sinfulness through the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. 
(Genesis 1: 26-27; Romans 5: 12, 18-19; Ephesians 2: 1-10)



VIRGIN BIRTH, DEATH, RESURRECTION, ACCENSION, AND RETURN OF CHRIST

We believe in the physical death, burial, and bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ as the atonement for sin and the provision for eternal life.  We believe in His ascension into heaven and His personal and future visible return to the earth.
(Luke 23: 44-56; Luke 24: 1-12; Acts 1: 1-11; 1 Corinthians 15: 3-11; 1 John 2: 1-2; Revelation 19: 11-16) 



SALVATION

We believe that salvation from eternal death and the gift of eternal life is secured only through personal faith in Christ.  By faith, believers are united with Christ through the Holy Spirit, who calls them to obedience and enables them to live victoriously over sin and thereby know the joy of bringing glory and honor to His name.
(Romans 10: 9-10; 12: 1-2; John 16: 7-15)


BAPTISM
We believe that in obedience to our Lord’s command all believers are to be baptized in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. We believe that by the Lord's example all believers should be baptized by immersion whenever possible. 
(Matthew 3: 13-17; 28: 18-20; Acts 2: 41; Romans 6: 1-4)



COMMUNION
We believe that the Lord’s Supper is a commemoration of the Lord’s death until He comes again and is to be observed by all believers.
(1 Corinthians 11: 23-32)



THE CHURCH

We believe that the local New Testament Church is a body of believers who are joined as members to one another for worship, fellowship, spiritual growth, service to others, and spreading of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 
(Acts 2: 42-47; 1 Corinthians 12: 12-31; Revelation 2: 1-3; 22)

SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE AND GENDER

We believe God's plan for human sexuality is to be expressed only within the context of marriage, and that God created man and woman as unique biological persons made to complement each other in marriage if God wills. God instituted monogamous marriage between one man and one woman as the foundation of the family and the basic structure of human society. For this reason, we believe that marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female.
(Genesis 1: 26-27; Genesis 2: 18-25; 1 Corinthians 6: 18; 7: 2-5; Hebrews 13: 4)



SANCTITY OF LIFE

We believe that human life is sacred from conception to its natural end. We believe that since all life is sacred, every human being has value and deserves dignity. As such, we must have concern for the spiritual and physical needs of our fellow mankind. 
(Psalms 139: 13-16)