Our Doctrinal Statement

THE HOLY SCRIPTURES

We believe the Holy Scriptures to be the verbally inspired Word of God.  The Scriptures are inerrant, infallible, and have been preserved to every generation.  The King James Version is the preserved Word of God for English speaking people.  The Bible is our sole and final authority for faith and practice.  

GOD

We believe in only one true and living God, the Triune God, existing eternally in three persons:  Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  God is self-existent, co-eternal in being, co-identical in nature, and co-equal in power and glory.  We believe God created the universe in six literal days—24-hour periods.  God is our Creator.  

THE PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was conceived by the Holy Spirit and was the virgin born son of Mary.  Christ is God in the flesh, and He became man without ceasing to be God.  He led a sinless life and accomplished man’s salvation through His substitutionary sacrifice on the cross.  Our justification is made sure by His physical resurrection from the dead.  He ascended to Heaven, where He is now exalted at the right hand of God as our High Priest, Intercessor, and Advocate.  

THE PERSON OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

We believe that the Holy Spirit executes God’s plan for conviction of sin and salvation.  The Holy Spirit regenerates, seals, indwells, fills, and bestows spiritual gifts for Christian service.  We believe that the Bible repudiates the charismatic emphasis upon experience-oriented tongues and ecumenical practices as being any ministry of the Holy Spirit.  We believe that the sign gifts, such as speaking in tongues, were temporary.   

SATAN

Satan is a person who waged a spiritual warfare, along with the fallen angels, against God’s plan.  Satan is the enemy of God and man, the author of sin, and the cause of the fall of man.  His power is supernatural, but limited; and he cannot act without God’s permission.  He will be eternally punished in the Lake of Fire.  

THE FALL OF MAN

We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but fell into sin and death by choice.  Man is universally sinful by nature and is devoid of the righteousness required by law.  Within man, there is no remedy for his lost condition and no possible salvation.  Salvation is through Christ alone.   

SALVATION

We believe that salvation is of grace and only through the saving power of the Lord Jesus Christ. Every man chooses to accept or reject God’s grace.  Men are justified by faith and are accounted as righteous before God through the acceptance of the redemptive and substitutionary death of Christ on the cross—plus nothing, minus nothing.   

SECURITY OF THE BELIEVER

We believe that once saved, all the redeemed are eternally secure through the finished work of Christ.  Salvation is reconciliation and man cannot be taken out of God’s possession.  

HEAVEN AND HELL

We believe in a literal Heaven and Hell.  Those who are saved will spend eternal life with God, and those who are unsaved will live in judgment and everlasting punishment, and will be cast into the Lake of Fire.  

BIBLICAL SEPARATION

We believe that Christians should live in such a way that will not bring reproach upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Those who are saved should separate from apostasy, worldly and sinful pleasures and practices, and live in a way that exudes modesty, Christlikeness, and avoids any appearance of evil.  

CHRIST’S RETURN

We believe that our Lord will return in a literal, visible, imminent, pretribulational, and premillennial way.  Christians will be caught up to be with the Lord before the seven years of tribulation.  At the end of the tribulation, Christ will return with the saints to establish a thousand-year reign on the earth.