Our Beliefs

In order to identify the church as conservative in theology and evangelical in spirit, we set forth this general statement of fundamental beliefs:

We believe in the verbal inspiration of the whole Bible (II Tim 3:1; I Pet 1:21 ).

We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons; Father, Son and Holy Spirit (Ex 33:1; Jn 1:1, 14; Acts 5:3-4).

We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ (Rev 22:13), in His virgin birth (Matt 1:23), in His sinless life (Heb 4:15), in His miracles (Matt 11:2-5), in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood (I Pet 2:24), in His bodily resurrection (I Cor 15:3-5), in His ascension to the right hand of the Father (Acts 1:9-11), and in His personal and visible return in power and glory (Matt 24:29-31).

We believe that all people are born sinners and alienated from God (Rom 3:23) and therefore in order to receive eternal life, one must be born again (Jn 3:3) by confessing that Jesus is Lord and believing in one's heart that God has raised Him from the dead (Rom 10:9), that all are justified on the single ground of faith in the shed blood of Christ, and that only by God's grace through faith alone are we saved (Eph 2:8-9).

We believe that all believers should be water baptized in obedience to the command of our Lord Jesus Christ as a sign of their spiritual death, burial and resurrection unto the new life in Christ (Matt 28:18-20).

We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life (Rom 8:9,23-24).

We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the unsaved; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are unsaved unto the resurrection of damnation (Rev 20:4-5,12-15).