What We Believe
THE TRIUNE GOD
CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY
SCRIPTURE
SALVATION
THE CHURCH
BAPTISIM
THE LORDS SUPPER
SATAN
THE TRIUNE GOD
We believe in one God, eternally existing in three Persons—Father, Son and Holy Spirit, co-identical in nature, coequal in power and glory. (Deut. 6:4; John 1:1-4; 16:7-15; Luke 1:35; Matt. 3:16-17)
CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY
We believe that Christians should bear a good testimony for the Lord Jesus Christ by living lives that are separated unto God, abstaining from worldly practices. (Rom. 12:1-2; I Cor. 3:16-17; 8:13; II Cor. 6:3,14-18; I Thess. 5:22; I John 2:15)
SCRIPTURE
We believe in the Bible being the inspired word of God,relayed to mankind by revelation: both the Old and New Testaments, consisting of 66 books, inerrant in the original writings. The Bible is God’s sufficient revelation to man and there is no need for any additional revelation from God. (II Tim. 3:16,17; Matt. 5:18; II Peter 1:21,22; John 16:12,13)
SALVATION
We believe that when an age of accountability is reached,( an age where there is a full understanding of right and wrong), that Mankind is held accountable for their sins. That God will make this known, and upon this knowledge that we are to humble our selves, repent, believe in Jesu: that he gave himself a sacrifice for our sins and seek after Salvation. This Salvation is made available only by God and cannot be given by Man. That when you are saved, you know that you have been changed, made in to a new creature!
THE CHURCH
We believe that the Church, which is the body and espoused bride of Christ, is a spiritual union made up of all born again persons of this present age and is distinct from the nation of Israel. (Eph. 1:22-23; 5:25-27; I Cor. 12:12-14; II Cor. 11:2) We believe that the establishment as well as the continuance of local churches is clearly taught and defined in the New Testament Scriptures. (Acts 14:27; 20:17,28-32; I Tim. 3:1-13; Titus 1:5-11)
BAPTISIM
We believe that every new believer should be baptized by immersion in water as a physical picture of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, just as he showed us as a template and as a picture of the believers death to self, and resurrection to new life in Christ. Baptism does by no means confer forgiveness, nor does baptism initiate an infant into some type of protective covenant with God. Baptism is an outward picture of an inward work of grace (Matthew 28: 19-20; Acts 10: 48)
THE LORDS SUPPER
The Lord’s Supper is a symbolic meal of bread and wine that represents the death of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The Lord’s Supper does not confer forgiveness. The Lord’s Supper should only be partaken by those who are repentant believers who are willing to make amends with anyone in the body if there is division. The failure to rightly examine one’s self in this manner could result in weakness, sickness, or even death (Mark 14: 22-25; I Corinthians 11: 23-24).
SATAN
We believe that Satan is a fallen angel; that he is the declared enemy of God and man; that he is the prince of the power of the air, often appearing to man as an angel of light, but that he attempts to frustrate all of God’s purposes through hindering the true proclamation of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Many times he takes a portion of the Truth and wraps it up within a lie to cause misunderstanding and false doctrine. We believe that eventually Satan and those separated and lost from the goodness of God will be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone to be eternally tormented and separated from God. (Job 1:6-7; Isaiah 14:12-17; Ezekiel 28:12-19; Matt. 4:2-11; Jude 6-7; Rev. 20:10)
