About What We Believe

         1.   The Triune Nature of God

         2.   The Authority and Inerrancy of Biblical Scripture

         3.   The Spiritual Lostness and Depravity of the human race

         4.   The Virgin Birth

         5.   The full Deity and Humanity of Christ

         6.   The Substitutionary Atonement and Bodily Resurrection of Christ

         7.   Salvation by Grace alone through Faith alone in Christ alone

         8.   The Literal Second Coming and Physical Return of Jesus Christ

We believe that “all Scripture is given by inspiration of God,” by which  we understand the whole Bible is inspired in the sense that holy men of  God “were moved by the Holy Spirit” to write the very words of  Scripture ( 2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:21) . 

 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,  having precisely the same nature, attributes, and perfections, and are worthy of precisely the same honor, confidence, and obedience (Matt.  28:18–19; Mark 12:29; John 1:14; Acts 5:3–4; 2 Cor. 13:14; Heb. 1:1–3;  Rev. 1:4–6). 

 We believe that man was originally created in the image and after the  likeness of God, and that he fell through sin, and, as a consequence of  his sin, lost his spiritual life, becoming dead in trespasses and sins,  and that he became subject to the power of the darkness and the devil. We also believe  that this spiritual death, or total depravity of human nature, has been  transmitted to the entire human race of man, and that every child of Adam is born into the  world with a flesh nature which not only possesses no spark of divine life,  but is essentially and unchangeably bad apart from God's Divine Grace. Therefore, all humans are condemned and sinners by birth, by choice, and by practice. (Genesis 1:26; 2:17; 6:5; Jeremiah 17:9; John 3:6; 5:40; 6:35;  Romans 3:10–19; 8:6–7; Ephesians 2:1–3). 

 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 a lost world. To this end He was born of the  virgin, and received a human body and a sinless human nature (Luke  1:30–35; John 1:18; 3:16; Hebrews 2:9-15).

We believe that, on the  human side, He became and remained a perfect man, but sinless throughout  His life; yet He retained His absolute deity, being at the same time  very God and very man, and that His earth-life functioned in a manner so that He represented God before man while at the same time He represented man before God (Luke 2:40; John 1:1–2;  2 Corinthians 5:18-21; Philippians 2:5–8).

We believe that no one can  enter the kingdom of God unless they are born again; and that no degree of  reformation however great, no attainments in morality however high, no  culture however attractive, no baptism or other ordinance however  administered, can help the sinner to take even one step toward heaven because that is works. A new nature imparted from above and a new regenerate life implanted by the Holy  Spirit through Faith in Jesus Christ alone is absolutely essential to salvation, and only  those thus saved are true sons of God. We believe, also, that our redemption  has been accomplished solely by the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, who  was made to be sin and was made a curse for us, dying substitutionary in our place; and that no repentance, no feeling, no faith, no good  resolutions, no sincere efforts, no submission to the rules and  regulations of any church, nor all the churches that have existed since  the days of the Apostles can add and degree to the value  of the blood, or to the merit of the finished work wrought for us by Jesus on the Cross at Calvary,  (Lev. 17:11; Isa. 64:6; Matt. 26:28; John 3:7–18; Rom. 5:6–9; 2  Cor. 5:21; Gal. 3:13; 6:15; Eph. 1:7; Phil. 3:4–9; Titus 3:5; James  1:18; 1 Pet. 1:18–19, 23).

We believe that the new birth of the  believer comes only through faith in Christ and that repentance is a  vital part of believing, and is in no way, in itself, a separate and  independent condition of salvation; nor are any other acts, such as  confession, baptism, prayer, or faithful service, to be added to believing as a condition for receiving  salvation (John 1:12; 3:16, 18, 36; 5:24;  6:29; Acts 13:39; 16:31; Rom. 1:16–17; 3:22, 26; 4:5; 10:4; Gal. 3:22).

 We believe that we are called with a holy calling, to walk not after the  flesh, but after the Spirit, and so to live in the power of the  indwelling Spirit that we will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. But  the flesh with its fallen, Adamic nature, which in this life is never  eradicated, being with us to the end of our earthly pilgrimage, needs to  be kept by the Spirit constantly in subjection to Christ, or it will  surely manifest its presence in our lives to the dishonor of our Lord  (Rom. 6:11–13; 8:2, 4, 12–13; Gal. 5:16–23; Eph. 4:22–24; Col. 2:1–10; 1  Pet. 1:14–16; 1 John 1:4–7; 3:5–9). 

We believe that divine, enabling gifts for service are bestowed by  the Spirit upon all who are saved. (Rom. 12:6; 1 Cor. 12:4–11; Eph. 2:10; 4:11). We believe that it is the explicit message of our Lord Jesus Christ to  those whom He has saved that they are sent forth by Him into the world  even as He was sent forth of His Father into the world. We believe that,  after they are saved, they are divinely reckoned to be related to this  world as strangers and pilgrims, ambassadors and witnesses, and that  their primary purpose in life should be to make Christ known to the  whole world and make disciples (Matt. 28:18–19; Mark 16:15; John 17:18; Acts 1:8; 2 Cor.  5:18–20; 1 Pet. 1:17; 2:11).