We believe that "all scripture [Bible] is given by inspiration of God," and is inerrant as appeared in the original manuscripts. We understand the whole Bible is inspired in the sense that holy men of God "were moved by the Holy Spirit" to write the very words of the Bible. We believe that this divine inspiration extends equally and fully to all parts of the Bible. We believe that the entire Bible is Christ-centered. (Mark 12:26, 36; 13:11; Luke 24:27, 44; John 5:39; Acts 1:16; 17:2-3; 18:28; 26:22-23; 28:23; Rom. 15:4; I Cor. 2:13; 10:11; 2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Peter 1:21)
We believe that the Godhead eternally exists in three persons - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit - and that these three are one God; having precisely the same nature, attributes, and perfections, and worthy of precisely the same worship, praise, confidence, and obedience. (Matt. 28:18-19; Mark 12:29; John 1:14; Acts 5:3-4; 2 Cor. 13:14; Heb. 1:1-3; Rev. 1:4-6)
We believe that man was originally created in the image and after the likeness of God, and that, as a result of his sin, lost his spiritual life, becoming spiritually dead. We also believe that this spiritual death has been passed on to the entire human race of man, with the only exception being Christ Jesus. Thus, every person is born into the world with a nature that is essentially and unchangeably bad apart from divine grace. (Gen. 1:26; 2:17; 6:5; Ps. 14:1-3; 51:5; Jer. 17:9; John 3:6; 5:40; 6:53; Rom. 3:10-19; 8:6-7; Eph. 2:1-3; 1 Tim. 5:6, 1 John 3:8)
We believe that, as prophesied in the Bible, the eternal Son of God came into this world that He might manifest God to men, fulfill prophecy, and become the Savior of a lost world. To this end He was born of the virgin, and received a human body and a sinless human nature. (Luke 1:30-35; John 1:18, 3:16; Heb. 4:15) We believe that He became and remained a perfect man, but sinless throughout His life; yet He retained His absolute deity, being at the same time completely God and completely man, and that His life on earth sometime functioned within the sphere of that which was human and sometimes within the sphere of that which was divine. (Luke 2:40; John 1:1-2; Phil. 2:5-8) We believe that, in infinite love for the lost, He voluntarily accepted His Father's will and became the sacrificial Lamb and took away the sin of the world; bearing the judgments against sin which the righteousness of God must require. His death was, therefore, substitutionary in the most absolute sense - the just for the unjust - and by His death He became the Savior of the lost. (John 1:29; Rom 3:25-26; 2 Cor. 5:14; Heb. 10:5-14; 1 Peter 3:18) We believe that, according to the Bible, He arose from the dead and that His resurrection body is the pattern of that body which ultimately will be given to all believers. (John 20:20; Phil. 3:20) We believe that when He left the earth, He was received by His Father indicating the Father’s acceptance assuring us that His saving work was perfectly accomplished. (Heb. 1:3) We believe that He became Head over all things to the church which is His body, and in this ministry He never ceases to intercede, support, defend and uphold the saved. (Eph. 1:22-23; Heb. 7:25; 1 John 2:1)
We believe that our salvation has been accomplished solely by the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, who freely accepted our penalty and died in our place and that no works can add in the very least degree to the value of the blood, or to the merit of the finished work provided for us by Him. Salvation is by faith alone. (Matt. 26:28; John 3:5, 18; Rom. 5:6-9; 2 Cor. 5:21; Gal. 3:13; 6:15; Eph. 1:7; Phil 3:4-9; Titus 3:5; James 1:18; 1 Peter 1:18-19, 23; John 1:12; 3:16, 18, 36; 5:24; 6:29; Acts 13:39; 16:31; Rom. 1:16-17; 3:22, 26; 4:5; 10:4; Gal. 3:22)
We believe that, because of the God’s love, because of His grace, because of the blood of Christ, because of the very nature of the divine gift of eternal life, because of the present and unending intercession of Christ in heaven, because of the regenerating, abiding presence of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of all who are saved, we and all true believers everywhere, once saved shall be kept saved forever. (John 5:24; 10:28; 13:1; 14:16-17; 17:11; Rom. 8:29; 1 Cor. 6:19; Heb. 7:25; 1 John 2:1-2; 5:13; Jude 1 :24)
We believe it is the privilege of all Christians to be assured of their salvation from the very day they trust Him to be their own Savior. And that this assurance is not based upon their own worthiness or fitness, but wholly upon the testimony of God in His written Word. (Luke 10:20; 22:32; 2 Cor. 5:1, 6-8; 2 Tim. 1:12; Heb. 10:22; 1 John 5:13)
We believe that the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Trinity, omnipresent from all eternity, began living in the world on the day of Pentecost according to the divine promise, indwells every believer, and by His baptism unites all to Christ in one body, and that He, as the Indwelling One, is the source of all power and all acceptable worship and service. We believe that He never leaves the church, nor any Christian, but is ever present to testify of Christ. (John 14:16-17; 16:7-15; 1 Cor. 6:19; Eph. 2:22; 2 Thess. 2:7) We believe that today certain well-defined ministries are committed to the Holy Spirit, and that it is the duty of every Christian to understand them in his own life and experience. These ministries are: the restraining of evil in the world; the convicting of the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment; the regenerating of all believers; the indwelling of all who are saved; the sealing of believers until the day of redemption; the baptizing into the one body of Christ of all who are saved; and the continued filling for power, teaching, and service of those among the saved who are yielded to Him and who are obedient to His will. We believe the Holy Spirit gives spiritual gifts to all believers at the moment of salvation. (John 3:6; 16:7-11; Rom. 8:9; 1 Cor. 12:13; Eph. 4:30; 5:18; 2 Thess. 2:7; 1 John 2:20-27)
We believe that all who are united to the risen and ascended Son of God are part of the church which is the body and bride of Christ, which began at Pentecost. The church is made up of true believers regardless of membership or nonmembership in organized churches or denominations. We believe that by the same Spirit all believers are baptized into, and thus become, one body that is Christ's, whether Jews or Gentiles, and having become members one of another, are under solemn duty to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace, rising above all differences, and loving one another with a pure heart fervently. We believe in the “oneness” of all believers in Christ. We believe that the local church is a necessary and vital tool for accomplishing the will and the work of God and the believers should “not forsake our assembling together.” (Matt. 16:16-18; Acts 2:42-47; Rom. 12:5; 1 Cor. 12:12-27; Eph. 1:20-23; 4:3-10; Col. 3:14-15; Heb. 10:25)
We believe that it is the specific message of our Lord Jesus Christ to those whom He has saved that they are sent forth by Him into the world even as He was sent forth of His father into the world. We believe that, after they are saved, they are divinely commissioned to be lights and witnesses in this world, and that their primary purpose in life should be to make Christ known to the whole world. (Matt. 28:18-19; Mark 16:15; John 17:18; Acts 1:8; 2 Cor. 5:18-20; 1 Peter 1:17; 2:11)
We believe that, according to the Word of God, the next great event in the fulfillment of prophecy will be the coming of the Lord in the air to receive to Himself into heaven both His own who are alive and remain unto His coming, and also all who have died in Jesus, and that this event is the blessed hope set before us in the Bible, and for this we should be constantly ready. (John 14:1-3; 1 Cor. 15:51-52; Phil 3:20; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; Titus 2:11-14)
We believe that water baptism and the Lord's Supper are the only two ordinances of the church and that they are a Scriptural means of the testimony of our faith and God’s grace. (Matt. 28:19; Luke 22:19-20; Acts 10:47-48; 16:32-33; 18:7-8; 1 Cor. 11:26
