Statement of Faith

THE SCRIPTURES

We believe that "all Scripture is given by inspiration of God," by which we understand the whole Bible is inspired in that holy men of God "were moved by the Holy Spirit" to write the very words of God. We believe that this divine inspiration extends equally to all parts of the writings as they appeared in the original manuscripts. We believe that all Scriptures center about the Lord Jesus Christ and that no portion, even of the Old Testament, is properly read, or understood, until it leads to Him. We believe that all Scriptures were designed for our practical instruction.

Matthew 5:17-18

2 Timothy 3:16-17

2 Peter 1:20-21
THE GODHEAD

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; co-equal and coexistent.

2 Corinthians 13:14

Acts 5:3-4

Hebrews 1:8
MAN

We believe that man was originally created in innocency and that he fell through sin, and, as a consequence of his sin,, lost his spiritual life, becoming dead in trespasses and sins, and then he became subject to the power of the devil. We believe that this spiritual death, or total depravity of the human nature, has been transmitted to the entire human race; and hence that every child of Adam is born into this world with a nature which not only possesses no spark of divine life but is essentially and unchangeably lost apart from divine grace.

Genesis 1:26-27

Genesis 3:6

Romans 3:10-23

Ephesians 2:1-5
CHRIST'S ADVENT

We believe that the eternal Son of God came into this world that He might manifest God to men, fulfill prophecy, and become the redeemer of the lost world. To this end, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin, received a human body and a sinless human nature.

Luke 1:30-35

John 1:1

John 1:14

John 1:18

Hebrews 4:15

We believe that He remained a perfect sinless man, yet retained His absolute deity, being at the same time very God and very man. We believe that He voluntarily accepted His Father's will and became the divinely provided sacrificial Lamb and took away the sin of the world, bearing the holy judgment against sin which the righteousness of God must impose. His death was, therefore, substitutionary and by His death He became the Savior of the lost.

2 Corinthians 5:21

Hebrews 10:5-14

1 Peter 3:18

We believe that, according to the Word of God, He arose from the dead in the same body, though glorified, and that His resurrection body is the pattern of that body which all believers shall inherit.

John 20:20

1 Corinthians 15:3-5

Philippians 3:20

We believe that in the ascending He became the head over all things to the Church which is His body, and in this ministry He ceases not to intercede and advocate for the saved.

Ephesians 1:22-23

Hebrews 7:25

1 John 2:1
SALVATION

We believe that, owing to death through sin, no one can enter the Kingdom of God unless born again; and that no degree of works can otherwise provide the sinner with the new life that makes him a Son of God. This redemption has been accomplished solely by the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, who was made to be sin, dying in our room and stead; and no repentance, no feeling, no faith, no ordinance of the Church, can add in the least degree to the value of the blood in the finished work wrought for us by Him who united us to Himself.

John 3:5

Romans 5:6-9

1 Peter 1:18-19
1 Peter 1:23

We believe that the new birth of the believer is an act of God the Spirit and comes only through individual faith in Christ and no other act such as confession, baptism, prayer or faithful service is to be added to believing as an added condition of salvation.

John 1:12

Romans 1:16

Galatians 3:24

We believe that one exercising this faith is immediately out of spiritual death into spiritual life, and from the old creation into the new, having his place and portion as linked to Christ and with Him forever. Though the saved one may have occasion to grow in the realization of his blessing, as soon as he is saved he is in possession of every spiritual blessing and is complete in Christ.

Romans 5:1

2 Corinthians 5:17

Ephesians 1:3
THE HOLY SPIRIT

We believe that the Holy Spirit, the Third person of the blessed Trinity, though omnipresent from all eternity, indwells every believer since the day of Pentecost, and by His baptism unites all Christ's own into one body. He is the secure of all power and all acceptable worship and service.

Romans 8:9

The baptism of the Holy Spirit occurs immediately upon saving faith when we are placed into the body of Christ, the true Church; the filling of the Holy Spirit is as the occasion demands for service.

1 Corinthians 12:13

The Spirit is the earnest of our inheritance and seals us until the day of redemption. We believe that there are well-defined gifts of the Holy Spirit which are given out by His sovereign will and are not to be prayed for, nor sought after by any special prayer, but it is the believer's privilege to yield to the Spirit in order that He might use us in any capacity for His glory.

Ephesians 4:30
THE CHURCH

We believe that all who are united to the risen and ascended Son of God are members of the true Church that is the Body and Bride of Christ; which began at Pentecost and is completely distinct from Israel. We are placed into the Church by the baptism of the Holy Spirit and made one body, that is Christ's, whether Jews or Gentiles.

Ephesians 4:3-6

We believe that God has ordained that through the local church the Gospel of Jesus Christ is to be spread and that it is the duty of every born-again one to seek out a local fellowship for the furtherance of the Gospel and his own edification.

Ephesians 1:20-23

We believe that the local church has two ordinances only: water baptism and the Lord's Supper.

Acts 2:41

1 Corinthians 11:26
THE RAPTURE

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 living and those who died to Him. We believe that the translation of the Church will be followed by the fulfillment of Israel's seventieth week - during which time the Church, the Body of Christ, will be in Heaven. This period is known as the Tribulation.

1 Corinthians 15:51-52

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

Revelation 3:10

We believe that the period of great tribulation in the earth will be climaxed by the return of the Lord Jesus Christ to the earth as He went, and with power and great glory to introduce the millennial age, to bind Satan and place him in the abyss, restore Israel to her own land and to give her the realization of God's covenant promises.

Matthew 25:31

Revelation 19:11
SATAN

We believe that God created an innumerable company of sinless, spiritual beings, known as angels; that one, the highest ranking, sinned through pride, thereby becoming Satan.

Isaiah 14:12-17

Ezekiel 28:11-19

Jude 6

We believe that Satan is the originator of sin, and that, under the permission of God, he through subtlety led our first parents into transgression, thereby accomplishing their moral fall and subjected them and their posterity to his own power; that he is the enemy of God and the people of God.

Genesis 3:1

Hebrews 2:14

We believe that Satan was judged at the cross, though not then executed, and that he now rules as the "god of this world," and that, at the second coming of Christ, Satan will be bound and cast into the abyss for a thousand years, and after the thousand years he will be loosed for a little season and then cast into the lake of fire.

John 12:31

Ephesians 2:2

Revelation 20:2
THE ETERNAL STATE

We believe that at death the spirits and souls of those who have trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation pass immediately into His presence and there remain in conscious bliss until the resurrection of the glorified body when Christ comes for His own, whereupon soul and body reunited shall be associated with Him forever in Glory; but the spirits and souls of the unbelieving remain after death conscious of condemnation and in misery until the final judgment of the Great White Throne at the close of the millennium, when soul and body reunited shall be cast into the lake of fire, not to be annihilated, but to be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power.

Luke 16:19-26

2 Corinthians 5:8

Revelation 20:11-15

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