The Scriptures
We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the Bible, "...as it is in truth, the Word of God.." We believe in verbal (word for word), plenary (full and complete) inspiration and in God's preservation of His pure words to every generation.
The Bible, Old and New Testament, is the inspired, inerrant, infallible, immutable, eternal, perfect Word of God. The Bible is to be interpreted according to its normal grammatical-historical meaning. The Bible is our sole authority for faith and practice. The Pastor uses only the King James Version (II Tim. 3:16,17; Ps. 12:6,7; I Peter 1:23-25; II Peter 1:20,21; Matt. 24:35; I Thess. 2:13)
The Godhead
We believe in one Triune God, Creator, Preserver, and Ruler over all things, eternally existing in three persons--Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, co-eternal in being, co-identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections (Deuteronomy 6:4; II Corinthians 13:14; Jn. 1:1; 10:30; 14:16,26; I Jn. 5:7).
The Person and Work of Christ
We believe in the Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His substitutionary death on the cross, His literal, physical bodily resurrection from the grave, His ascension to the right hand of God in heaven, His present intercession on behalf of the saved. We believe in His visible, personal, imminent, pre-tribulational return in the air for His saints (the Rapture) and His pre-millenial return to the earth with His saints at the end of the tribulation (the Revelation). We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ became man, without ceasing to be God. having been conceived by the Holy Spirit in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful men.
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through His finished work on the cross as a representative, vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice; and that our justification is made sure by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead.
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to Heaven, and is now exalted at the right hand of God, where, as our High Priest, He fulfills the ministry of Representative, Intercessor, and Advocate (Is. 7:14; 9:6,7; Luke. 1:35; Jn. 1;1,14; Acts 1:9-11; Rom. 3:24,25; 8:34; II Cor. 5:21; Gal. 4:4,5; Phil. 2:5-11; I Thess. 4:15-17; Heb. 4:14,15;7:25;9:24-28; I Jn. 2:1,2)
The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit
We believe in the Deity of the Holy Spirit. He is the Person who reproves the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment; and He is the Supernatural Agent in regeneration, baptizing all believers into the Body of Christ, indwelling them and sealing them unto the day of redemption, and guiding them unto all truth. (John 14:16,26; 16:7-14; Romans 8:9; I Cor. 12:13; Ephesians 1:13-14; 4:30; 5:18).
Man
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam's sin the race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God; and that man, of himself, is utterly unable to remedy his lost condition and to redeem himself.
The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image and is mindful of him, and in that Christ died for man; therefore every individual possesses dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love. (Genesis 1:26,27; 2:7; 3:1-15; Psalm 8:4-9; Romans 3:22,23; 5:12; 6:23; Ephesians 2:1-3,12; Colossians 3:9-11).
The Way of Salvation
We believe that salvation is "by grace" through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, plus nothing and minus nothing. We believe that men are justified by faith alone and are accounted righteous before God only through the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
We believe that all the redeemed, once saved are kept by God's power and are thus secure in Christ forever. We believe that eternal life is the present possession of every believer (Jn. 1:12; 6:37-40; 10:27-30; Rom. 8:1,35-39; 10:9-13; I Cor. 15:1-4; Eph. 1:7,13; 2:8-10; 4:30; Titus 3:5-7; I Peter 1:3-5; 18,19).
The Church
We believe that the New Testament church is a local assembly of baptized believers who have voluntarily joined themselves together to worship God and carry out the Great Commission. The Church has Christ as it's only head and the Bible as it's only authority. The Lord is doing His work in this world through local churches.
We believe in the autonomy and self governing of the local church free of any external authority or control. Its offices are Pastor and Deacon and its ordinances are Baptism (by immersion) and the Lord's Supper (Matt. 16:13-18; 28:19,20; Acts 2:1,41,47; 13:1-4; 20:28; I Cor. 11:23-26; 12:12-14; Eph. 1:22,23; 5:25-27; Col. 1:18; I Tim. 3;1-13; Titus 1:5-9).
Biblical Separation
We believe that all the saved should live in such a manner as not to bring reproach upon their Savior and Lord; and, that separation from all religious apostasy, all worldly and sinful pleasures, practices and associations is commanded of God (II Timothy 3:1-5; Romans 12:1, 2, 14:13; I John 2:15-17; II John 9-11; II Corinthians 6:14-7:1).
The Return of Christ
We believe the "Blessed Hope" of our Lord's return is literal, personal, visible, imminent, premillennial, and pretribulational. Believers will caught up to be with the Lord prior to the seven years of tribulation, and at the end of the tribulation Christ will return with His saints to establish His thousand-year reign on the earth. (I Cor. 15:51-57; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Titus 2:13; Zechariah 14:4-11; Revelation 19:11-21, 20:1-6;)
Our Eternal State
We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life, and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment.
We believe that the souls of the redeemed are, at death, absent from the body and present with the Lord, where in conscious bliss they await the first resurrection, when spirit, soul, and body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord.
We believe that the souls of unbelievers remain, after death, in conscious misery until the second resurrection, when with soul and body reunited they shall appear at the Great White Throne Judgment, and shall be cast into the Lake of Fire, not to be annihilated, but to suffer everlasting, conscious punishment (Matt. 25:41-46; Mk. 9:43-48; Luke.16:19-26; Jn. 5:28,29; 11:25,26; II Cor. 5:6-8; Phi;. 1:23; I Thess. 4:16,17; II Thess. 1:7-9; Rev. 20:4-6, 11-15.