WE BELIVE:
  • In the Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life through His death and the power of His resurrection
  • The Bible to be God’s word and the revelation of His will to man and accept it as our rule for faith and conduct
  • Christian fellowship, mutual edification and evangelical effort, in the form of local churches, is God’s ordained order for His people.
  • Believe each church is to assemble together for worship, fellowship, counsel, and instruction in the Word of God, and the work of the ministry.
  • Believe each church should exercise the gifts and offices provided for in the New Testament to obtain the Christian goal, “Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect.
  • Believe God has called and anointed us to emphasize the fullness of the Gospel through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Statement of Fundamental Truths

The scriptures inspired. The Bible is the inspired Word of God, a revelation from God to man, the infallible rule of faith and conduct, and is superior to conscience and reason, but not contrary to reason

(2 Timothy 3:15-17).

The one true God. The one true God has revealed himself as the eternally self-existent, self-revealed “I AM” and has further revealed Himself as embodying the principles of relationship and association, i.e., Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

(Deuteronomy 6:4, Mark 12:29, Isaiah 43:10, Matthew 28:19)

Conditions of Salvation. The grace of God, which brings salvation, has appeared to all men, through the preaching of repentance toward God and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ; the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit, and being justified by hope of eternal life

(Titus 2:11, Romans 10:13-15, Luke 24:47, Titus 3:5-7).

 

Evidence of salvation. The inward evidence to the believer of his salvation is the direct witness of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:16). The outward evidence to all men is a life of righteousness and true holiness.

 

The church. The church is the body of Christ, the habitation of God through the Spirit with divine appointments for the fulfillment of her great commission. Each believer, born of the Spirit, is an integral part of the church, which is written in heaven.

(Ephesians 1:22, Ephesians 1:23, Ephesians 2:22, Hebrews 12:23)

Baptism in water. The ordinance of baptism should be observed as commanded in the scriptures by all who have repented and believed in Christ as Savior and Lord. In so doing, they declare to the world that they have died with Jesus and been raised with Him to walk in newness of life.

(Matthew 28:19, Acts 10:47-48, Romans 6:4)

The Lord’s supper, consisting of the elements, bread and the fruit of the vine, is a memorial of Jesus' suffering and death (1 Corinthians 11:26), a prophecy of His second coming (1 Corinthians 11:26), and is enjoined on all believers until He comes.

The scriptures teach a life of holiness without which no man shall see the Lord. By the power of the Holy Spirit we are able to obey the command, “Be holy, for I am holy.” Sanctification is the will of God for all believers, and should be pursued by walking in obedience to God’s Holy Spirit. 

Sanctification is experienced in basically three ways:

Instant or positional sanctification. This is what happens to every person who puts their trust in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. When we are saved through faith in Jesus, we are sanctified in the eyes of God through the blood of the cross. As God the Father looks at us, He sees the holiness of Jesus, which is imputed to us, and does not see our sin (Hebrews 10:10, Hebrews 14).

Progressive or practical sanctification. This is the process by which we strive to live on a day to day basis by considering ourselves dead to sin and alive to God in holy living through the power of God’s divine nature within our lives (Romans 6; Philippians 2:12, Philippians 2:13, 2 Peter 1:3, 2 Peter 1:4).

Final sanctification. This is when we are totally set free from the presence of sin within our life after seeing Jesus our Lord and being made like Him because of seeing Him as He really is in all His glory (1 John 3:2).