Doctrinal Statement

 We believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are complete word-for-word and inerrant in the original writings, and are the supreme and final authority in faith and life.
Ps. 119:89; Is. 40:18;  Matt. 5:18; I Thes. 2:13; 2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Pet. 1:20–21.

 We believe one God eternally exists in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Gen. 1:26; 3:22; 11:7; Is. 48:16; Matt. 3:16-17; 28:19; John 14:6-17; 15:26; 17:21; 1 Cor. 3:6; 12:4-6; Eph. 2:18; 4:4-6; Col. 1:27; 1 Pet. 1:2; 1 John 4:2.

 We believe Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin, Mary, and is true God and true man.
Matt. 1:23, 25; Luke 1:34-35; John 1:1, 14; Phil. 2:5-8; Heb. 1:3; 2:16.

 We believe man was created in the image of God, but man sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death, and now in Adam, all human beings are born with a sin nature.
Gen 1:26; Rom. 5:12-14; I Cor. 5:22; 2 Cor. 5:14.

 We believe the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and all who believe in Him are redeemed and justified on the basis of His spiritual death.
Acts 16:31, Rom. 3:22-27; 5:8-11; 2 Cor. 5:14-21; Heb. 1:3; 9:12-13; 10:4-10; 1 Pet. 3:18; 1 John 2:2; 4:10.

 We believe God resurrected the crucified body of our Lord, and that He ascended into heaven and sits in present session as our high priest and advocate.
Luke 24:5-7; Acts 2:24, 34-35; Rom. 1:3-4; 4:24-25; 1 Cor. 15:3-8; Eph. 1:20; 4:8-10; Heb. 1:3, 13; 7:17, 24-26; 8:1; 10:12; 1 Pet. 3:21-22; 1 John 2:1; Rev. 1:6.

 We believe the “blessed hope” is confidence in the personal, pretribulational and imminent return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Rom. 8:18-25; 1 Cor. 15:20-24; Phil. 3:20-4:5; 1 Thes. 4:13-17; Tit. 2:14; Jas. 5:7-8; I John 2:28.

 We believe all who believe by faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Savior immediately are baptized and sealed by the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God; a relationship in which they are eternally secure.
Rom. 6:3-5; 2 Cor. 1:21-22; Eph. 1:13-14; 4:30; Gal. 5:27; 2 Tim. 2:19; John 10:28-29; Eph. 2:8-9; 1 John 2:24-25; 5:11-12.

 We believe God will bodily resurrect the just and unjust for the everlasting perfect conformity to Christ of the saved and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost along with Satan and other fallen angels.
Matt. 13:49-50; 25:31-46; John 5:28-29; Acts 26:8; Rom 2:16; 6:3-5; 1 Cor. 4:5; 6:3; 15:12-57; 2 Cor. 5:10; Phil. 2:10-11; 2 Tim. 2:19; 2 Thes. 1:5-10; 2 Pet. 2:4; Jude 6; Rev. 20:10-15

 We believe the Church is a spiritual organism made up of all believers in Christ; that in its local manifestation it is an autonomous assembly of believers; and that its only ordinance is the Lord's Supper.
1 Cor. 11:25; 12:12-27; Eph. 4:4-16; Phil. 2:1-2; Heb. 10:25.

 We believe spirituality is an absolute at any point in time, wherein the believer is controlled (filled) by the Holy Spirit, and spirituality can be obtained only by personal confession of sin to God; whereas carnality is also an absolute, which occurs by choice to sin, and means the believer is no longer spiritual.
Rom 7:14-23; 8:5-8; 1 Cor. 2:12-15; Eph. 5:18; Jas. 4:8; 1 John 1:9.

 We believe the Scriptures are to be dispensationally and literally interpreted through the illuminating ministry of God the Holy Spirit.
John 14:26; Rom. 16:25-26; 1 Cor. 2:6-15; Eph. 1:9-10; 3:8-10; Col. 1:25-27; I Tim. 1:4; 2 Tim. 2:15.