What We Believe

The Bible

We teach that the Bible is the Word of God supernaturally inspired so that it is inerrant in the original manuscripts and preserved by God in its verbal, plenary inspiration, so that it is a divinely authoritative standard for every age and every life.

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God

We teach that the Godhead exists eternally in three persons — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – and that these three are one God.

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Creation

We teach that God is the absolute and sole creator of the universe, and that creation was by divine feat, not through evolutionary process.

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Jesus

We teach that Jesus Christ in the flesh was both God and man, that He was born of a virgin and that He lived a sinless life, in which He taught and wrought mighty works and wonders and signs exactly as revealed in the four Gospels, and He was crucified, died to pay the penalty for our sins and was raised from the dead bodily on the third day. Later He ascended to the Father’s right hand where He is head of the church and intercedes for believers, and from whence He is coming again personally, bodily, visibly to this earth to set up His millennial kingdom.

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Salvation

We teach that since His death, by His shed blood, the Lord Jesus Christ made a perfect atonement for sin, redeeming us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us — men are saved and justified on the simple and single ground of the shed blood.

We teach that such salvation with its forgiveness of sins, its impartation of a new nature and its hope of eternal life, is entirely apart from good works, baptism, church membership – or man’s effort – and is of pure grace.

We teach that a true believer is eternally secure, that he cannot lose his salvation, but that sin may interrupt the joy of his fellowship with God and bring the loving discipline of his heavenly Father.

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Eternity

We teach that all who receive Christ become joint heirs with Christ, and at death, their spirits depart to be with Christ in conscious blessedness and at the rapture their bodies will be raised to the likeness of the body of His glory and dwell forever in His divine presence.

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Discipleship

We teach that it is the goal of every Christian to grow in spiritual maturity through obedience to the Word of God and indwelling Spirit.

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The Holy Spirit

We teach that the Holy Spirit is a person, is God and possesses all the divine attributes. He indwells all believers, baptizes and seals them at the moment of their salvation, and fills them in response to confession of sin and yielding of one’s life.