Statement of Faith - what we believe:

• The Word of God

We believe the Holy  Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the verbally inspired  Word of God and the final authority for faith and life.

We  believe God's Word to be inerrant, infallible, and God-breathed in its  original writings and providentially preserved for the church today. (II  Timothy 3:16, 17; II Peter 1:20; Isaiah 8:20)

We  also consider the King James Version to be the most accurate English  translation. Therefore, we use the KJV in all of our preaching and  teaching.

• The Godhead

We  believe in one Triune God, 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)

We  believe that God created the Heavens and the Earth and all things  therein from nothing in six literal days. (Genesis 1; Nehemiah 9:6;  Romans 1:20)

• The Person and Work of Christ

We  believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, having been  conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, became man  without ceasing to be God, in order that He might reveal God and redeem  sinful man. (Matthew 1:23; Luke 1:35; John 1:1, 2)

We  believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through  His death on the cross as a representative, vicarious, substitutionary  sacrifice and that our justification is made sure by his literal  physical resurrection from the dead. (I Corinthians 15:4; Hebrews 9:22; I  Peter 2:24)

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, Mediator and Advocate. (Acts 1:9, 10;  Hebrews 7:25; 9:24; Romans  8:34)                                          

• The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit

We  believe that the Holy Spirit is a person who convicts the world of sin,  of righteousness, and of judgment and that He is the supernatural Agent  in regeneration, baptizing all believers into the body of Christ,  indwelling and sealing them unto the day of redemption. (John 16:8-11;  II Corinthians 3:6; Romans 8:9; Ephesians 1:13, 14)

We  believe that He is the Divine Teacher who guides believers into all  truth and that it is the privilege and duty of all saved to be filled  with the Spirit. (Ephesians 5:18; I John 2:20, 27)

• The Personality of Satan

We  believe that Satan is a person, the author of sin and the cause of the  fall: that he is the open and declared enemy of God and man; and that he  shall be eternally punished in the Lake of Fire. (Job 1:6, 7; Isaiah  14:12-17; Revelation 20:10)

• Natural State of 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 is totally depraved, and, of himself,  utterly unable to remedy his lost condition. (Genesis 1:26, 27; Romans  3:22, 23; 5:12; Ephesians 2:1-3, 12)

• Salvation

We  believe that salvation is the gift of God brought to man by grace and  received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, whose precious  blood was shed on Calvary for the forgiveness of our sins. (Ephesians  2:8-10; 1:7; John 1:12; I Peter 1:18, 19)

• Responsibilities of the Believer

We  believe that every saved person possesses two natures, with provision  made for victory of the new nature over the old nature through the power  of the indwelling Holy Spirit; and that all claims to the eradication  of the old nature in this life are unscriptural. (Romans 6:13; 8:12, 13;  Galatians 5:16-25; Ephesians 4:22-24)

We  believe that all 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; I John 2:15-17; II  Corinthians 6:14)

We believe that it is  the obligation of the saved to witness by life and by word to the  truths of Holy Scriptures and to seek to proclaim the Gospel to all  mankind. (Mark 16:15; Acts 1:8; II Corinthians 5:19, 20)

We  believe that Sunday is to be set aside for special worship in  commemoration of the Resurrection of Christ.  This day should therefore  be observed in a manner that calls the world to remembrance of Him.  (Hebrews 10:25)

• The Church

We  believe that the Church, which is the body and the espoused bride of  Christ, is a spiritual organism made up of all born-again persons of  this present age. (Ephesians 1:22, 23; 5:25-27; I Corinthians 12:12-14)

We  believe that the establishment and continuance of local churches is  clearly taught and defined in the New Testament Scriptures. (Acts 14:27;  20:17; 28-32)

We believe in the autonomy of the local church free of any external authority of control.

• Dispensationalism

We  believe that the Scriptures interpreted in their natural, literal sense  reveal divinely determined dispensations or rules of life, which define  man's responsibilities in successive ages.  These dispensations are not  ways of salvation, but rather divinely ordered stewardships by which  God directs man according to His purpose.  Three of these—the age of the  law, the age of the Church and the age of the Millennial Kingdom—are  the subjects of detailed revelation in Scripture. (Revelation 2, 3)

• The Second Advent of Christ

We  believe in that "Blessed Hope," the personal, imminent,  pre-tribulational and premillennial coming of the Lord Jesus Christ for  His redeemed ones; and in His subsequent return to earth, with His  saints, to establish His Millennial Kingdom. (I Thessalonians 4:13-18;  Zechariah 14:4-11; Revelation 19:11-16)

• The Eternal State

We  believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal  life, and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment. (Matthew  25:46; John 5:28, 29; 11:25, 26)

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. (II Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23;  3:21; I Thessalonians 4:16)

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 be cast into the Lake of Fire, not to be annihilated, but to  suffer everlasting conscious punishment. (Luke 16:19-26; II  Thessalonians 1:7-9; Jude 6, 7)