What We Believe

The following is a brief summary of what we believe regarding essential doctrines of the Bible. For an extensive Doctrinal Statement, please click here. 

The sixty six books of the Bible contain the completed Holy Scriptures which have been given to man by God. It is the God-breathed inspired Word of God; it is a product of God. The Bible is authored by both God and man, but because it is a product of God, the infallible and inerrant nature of God supports the conclusion that the Bible is infallible and inerrant in its original manuscripts.

God is one God, eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Bible attributes deity to each Person of the Godhead, distinguishing the Persons, while maintaining that God is one God. Father, Son, and Spirit are co-equal in power and glory, identical in nature, and worthy of the same honor, trust, obedience and love.

God the Father is the first Person of the Trinity, who by His nature is God Himself, co-equal with the Son and the Holy Spirit. Although equal between the three Persons, the Father holds the authoritative role within the Godhead by which the Son and the Holy Spirit submit to the Father’s authority without compromising their equality. He is the eternal Father of the eternal Son, Who has sovereignly decreed all things for His own purpose and glory.

Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, the second Person of the Trinity, who by His nature, is God Himself, co-equal with the Father and the Holy Spirit. God provided the only way for sinful humanity to become righteous through Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection. Jesus died to redeem mankind, to reconcile the world to God, to be the propitiation for sinful humanity, and to be the only remedy for sin. He died a literal physical substitutionary death for all mankind, was buried, physically rose again, ascended to heaven, and is now exalted at the right hand of God the Father, presently building His Church and working as the Bestower of gifts, Intercessor, and Advocate.

The Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Trinity, who by His nature is God Himself, co-equal with the Father and the Son. He convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgement. In the current dispensation of The Church, upon faith in Jesus, the Holy Spirit regenerates, indwells, baptizes, seals, and provides spiritual gifting to a believer.

Man was created in the image and likeness of God. God has distinguished man from the animals. Man is a person with intellect, emotion, and will. Man originally was created with an upright, holy nature. Man’s holy nature was unconfirmed at creation, and after being tested, man fell into sin and lost his holy nature. The Bible teaches the doctrine of eternal punishment of sinners.

Salvation - To be saved/delivered by God from spiritual and eternal death unto spiritual and eternal life.

Eternal life is a gift of God, offered to man by grace and accepted through believing in the Lord Jesus Christ. To add any work of man as a condition for salvation is a perversion of the gospel of grace and is condemned by God in the Holy Scriptures.

Definitions of four important Biblical terms:
Believe = To rely on, trust in, or place faith in.
Grace = Unmerited/unearned favor.
Repent = A change of mind.
Confess = To say the same thing about; to agree with God.

The Church is the called out assembly of believers, universally composed of all Church Age saints - the born again people who believe in Jesus Christ for salvation during the Church Age. The Church is currently being built by Jesus Himself. It began on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2, and it will continue to be built by Jesus until the Rapture. The Church is not Israel and has not replaced Israel.