OUR BELIEFS
THE CORE AFFIRMATIONS
We believe the Bible to be the revealed Word of God, fully and verbally inspired of God. We believe the Scriptures to be the inerrant, infallible Word of God, as found within the 66 books from Genesis to Revelation. We believe that God not only inspired every word, but that He has preserved them through the ages
We believe in one God; Who is eternal, self-existent, infinite, and immutable. We believe He has one nature, one essence, and one substance; yet manifests Himself to man in three Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
We believe that the church began with the calling out of the twelve apostles by Jesus Christ and was empowered on the day of Pentecost. We believe the local church is composed of members who have been saved and baptized and have voluntarily united together for the purposes of worship, fellowship, service, and observance of the ordinances of baptism and communion.
We believe Jesus Christ to be the one and only Savior of mankind. We believe Jesus Christ to be eternally God and to possess all the attributes of Deity. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ was virgin-born, that He was God incarnate, and that the purposes of the incarnation were to reveal God, to redeem men, and to rule over God's kingdom.
We believe that man, in the person of Adam, was created in innocence, without sin, but by willful transgression sinned, thus plunging all mankind into sin, condemnation and both physical and spiritual death; and that since Adam all mankind has been born in sin, is totally depraved, and so by nature and choice all men are sinners.
We believe that Jesus is the Savior and accomplished our redemption through His death on the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice. Our redemption and salvation is guaranteed to us by His literal physical resurrection from the dead. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is now in heaven, exalted at the right hand of God; that He is our High Priest Who is the only and sufficient Mediator between God and man.
We believe that Satan is a personal being, the author of sin and the cause of the fall of the human race, the prince of demons, the great enticer and deceiver, the god of this age, the open and declared enemy of God and man, and whose end is eternal punishment in the lake of fire.
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as our representative and substitutionary sacrifice; and that all who receive Him as personal Lord and Savior by grace through faith are justified, sanctified and will be glorified on the ground of His shed blood. We believe that this salvation is a free gift of God wholly apart from works and that a godly sorrow and repentance for sin and a godly life are the fruits thereof.
We believe in the literal interpretation of the Scriptures in their grammatical and historical context. We believe in the pre-tribulational rapture of the church saints, followed by the seven-year tribulation. We believe in the pre-millennial return of Christ to the earth and His literal rule of 1,000 years. Following this one-thousand-year reign is the Great White Throne judgment and then the new heaven and new earth.
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