STATEMENT OF FAITH

What we believe about...

THE SCRIPTURES

We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as verbally inspired by God, as inerrant in the original writings; and as the supreme and final authority in faith and life.  II Timothy 3:16, 17; II Peter 1:21

GOD

We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  John 14:16; Matthew 28:19

JESUS CHRIST

We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, was born of the Virgin Mary, and is fully God and fully Man, and is the only mediator between God and man.   Matthew 1:18-25; I Timothy 2:5; John 1:1-14

We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into Heaven, and in His present life there for us as High Priest and Advocate.   Matthew 28; Hebrews 4:14; I John 2:1

MAN

We believe that man was created in the image of God; that man sinned and thereby incurred physical and spiritual death, the latter being separation from God.   Romans 6:23; Genesis 1:27; Genesis 3

SALVATION

We believe in the voluntary death of the Lord Jesus as a substitutionary sacrifice for our sins, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood.   I Peter 1:18 -19; Revelation 1:5

We believe that all who receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith, are born again of the Holy Spirit, and thereby become the children of God. All such are indwelled by the Holy Spirit, and baptized by that Spirit into Christ’s spiritual body of the Church, of which Christ is the Head.   I Corinthians 12:12-13; John 3:3-7; Ephesians 5:19-23

We believe in the eternal security of all those who trust in our Lord Jesus Christ and are truly born again.  John 3:16; John 10:28-29; Romans 8:35-39