Statement of Faith

  1. The Bible is a supernatural revelation from God, concerning Himself, His being, nature, character, will and purposes; and concerning man, his nature, need and duty and destiny.  The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are without error or misstatement in their moral and spiritual teaching and record of historical facts.  They are without error or defect of any kind in the autographs. (2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Pet. 1:21)

  2. There is one God, eternally existing and manifesting Himself to us in three Persons--Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Isaiah 44:6-8; 45:5; Gen. 1:26-27; 3:22; Matt. 28:19; Luke 9:35; 2 Cor. 13:14)

  3. Jesus was supernaturally conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin, Mary.  He was put to death by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate. God physically raised Jesus from the dead, and His disciples witnessed this when He showed Himself to be alive, appearing to them in the space of forty days.  After this the Lord Jesus ascended into heaven, and the Father made Him to be head over all things, including the Church. (Luke 24; John 2:19; 1 Cor. 15)

  4. The Lord Jesus, before His incarnation, existed in the exact form of God, and of His own choice, laid aside His divine glory and took upon Himself the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men.  He is a divine person possessed of all the attributes of deity and should be worshipped as God by angels and men. (John 1:1; Phil. 2:5-11) “In Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” (Col. 2:9)

  5. By His death on the cross, the Lord Jesus made a perfect atonement for sin, by which the wrath of God against sinners is appeased and a ground furnished upon which God can deal in mercy with sinners.  He redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse in our place.  He who Himself was absolutely without sin had our sin counted to Him that we might have His righteousness, the righteousness of God, counted to us. (1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 2:2; 3:4, Isaiah 53:4-6; 2 Cor. 5:21; John 19:30)

  6. The Lord Jesus is coming again to this earth, personally, bodily, and visibly. (1 Thess. 4:16-17; Heb. 9:28; Rev 1:7)

  7. The Holy Spirit is a person distinct from the Father and the Son, and possesses all of the divine attributes. He is God.  (Mt. 28:19; 2 Cor. 3:16-18)

  8. Man was created in the image of God, after his likeness, and therefore has transcendent, intrinsic worth. (Gen. 1:27)  The unjustified destruction of any human being from conception to natural death (e.g., through abortion, embryonic stem cell research, cloning, doctor-assisted suicide, etc.) is wrong. (Ex. 21:22)

  9. The whole human race fell in the fall of the first Adam.  All men, apart from spiritual regeneration, are lost, darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, hardened in heart, morally and spiritually dead through their trespasses and sins.  They cannot see nor enter the Kingdom of God until they are born again of the Holy Spirit. (Jn. 6:28-29; 8:44; 15:5; Phil. 1:29; Rom. 3:10-12; 8:7; Jn. 1:13; 1 Cor. 2:14; Eph. 2:8-9)

  10. Men are justified on the simple and single ground of the shed blood of Christ and upon the simple and single condition of faith in Him who shed His blood, and are born again by the quickening, renewing, cleansing work of the Holy Spirit, through the instrumentality of the Word of God. These alone become children of God and receive eternal life. At death their spirits depart to be with Christ, and at the second coming of Christ their bodies shall be raised, transformed into the likeness of the body of His glory. (Jn. 3:16; Rom. 3:20-28; Eph. 2:8-9; Rom. 4:1-6; Gal. 2:21)

  11. All those who persistently reject Jesus Christ in this present life shall be raised from the dead, judged according to their deeds, and punished for their rebellion against God.  Throughout eternity they will exist in a state of conscious isolation from God, in endless torment and anguish. (Mt. 8:12; Lk. 16:19-31; Rev. 20:14-15; 21:8)

  12. The Church is the body and bride of Christ, which Christ loves and for which He has given Himself. (Eph. 5:25-27; Rev. 21:2; 2 Cor. 11:2)

  13. There is a personal devil, a being of great cunning who can exert vast power only so far as God allows him to do so.  He shall ultimately be judged and condemned, tormented day and night forever. (2 Pet. 2:4; Jude 6; Mt. 25:41)

  14. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life and to perform good works that are the necessary evidence of their genuine faith in Christ.