What We Believe

We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as being verbally inspired and inerrant in the original writings and of supreme and final authority in faith and life.

We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary and is true God and true man.

We believe that man was originally created in the image and after the likeness of God. Man fell because of sin, and, as a consequence, lost his spiritual life. Man, therefore, in his natural state, is condemned to an eternal death.

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the basis of His death.

We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, and in His ascension into heaven, and His present life for us as High Priest and Advocate.

We believe in the blessed hope: the personal, premillennial, and imminent return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God, a relationship in which they are eternally secure.

We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost along with Satan and the other fallen angels.

We believe that 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 ordinances are baptism by immersion and the Lord's Supper.