We believe the Scriptures, the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, in their original form, to be plenary and verbally inspired, without error. The Scriptures are God’s complete and closed revelation to and the only authoritative Word of God today. God has and will preserve His Word throughout all generations. 2 Timothy 3:16, 2 Peter 1:20-21; Romans 16:25-26; Matthew 5:18.
We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:19-20; Matthew 3:16-17; Isaiah 45:5-6; John 17:3.
We believe in the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ (that He is, indeed, coequal with the Father), His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death for all mankind through His shed blood, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, His intercessory work, and His personal return in power and in glory. Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 21:27; 24:39; Romans 8:34; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 John 2:2; Colossians 2:9; Revelation 5:9.
We believe that God created the world in six literal days, including man as represented by the historical Adam who was created in the image of God and is not the product of any evolutionary process. Adam, by his own free will, sinned, which has caused the entire human race to be born with a sinful nature. This sinful nature, which we choose to exercise, results in the condemnation and wrath of God. Genesis 1.26; Romans 5:12.
We believe that to escape God's just condemnation and wrath, man must choose to experience spiritual birth by repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. A sinner is declared righteous by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. We believe in the the eternal security of the believer in Christ. John 1:12; 3:3; Romans 3:21-28; Titus 3:5; John 10:27-29; Ephesians 4:30; Romans 8:35-39; Hebrews 13:5.
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, Who convinces the sinner of his need of salvation, regenerates the repentant sinner, and places the believer into the body of Christ at the moment of salvation. He also seals, indwells, fills, guides, and teaches the believer. John 14:16-17, 26, 16:8-11, 13; Ephesians 4:30; 5:18; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20.
We believe that the church of Jesus Christ is the living spiritual body of which He Himself is the Head. While the church is the universal body of all New Testament believers, it is represented the local church which the Lord Jesus Christ has established to edify His people and equip them to evangelize the world. The local church is autonomous and entrusted with the administration of the ordinances: first, baptism by immersion after salvation as an outward sign of an inward work of grace; and secondly, the Lord’s Supper as a remembrance of the atonement of Christ till He comes. Matthew 28:19; 1 Corinthians 11:23-24; Ephesians 4:4-16; Colossians 2:12.
We believe in the pre-tribulational, pre-millennial rapture of the church, the body of Christ. We believe in the period of great tribulation of seven years following the rapture. The Great Tribulation (Daniel’s seventieth week) will end with the coming of Christ in power and glory to the earth to set up His kingdom and rule for a thousand years. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost: the saved unto the resurrection of life (eternal joy with the Savior), and the lost unto the resurrection of damnation (eternal death in Hell following the Great White Throne Judgment). We believe that Satan is a literal being and that Hell is a literal place of eternal, physical torment. Daniel 9:27; John 5:28-29; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 20:1-6, 10-15; 21:27.
We believe that God ordained marriage as a union of one man and one woman for life and that sexual intimacy is legitimate only within marriage. We believe that one's biological gender is God's design. Genesis 1:27; 2:22-25; Matthew 19:4-6.
To guard the purity of the truths mentioned above, we believe that the Scriptures command personal separation unto God from worldly attitudes, motives, goals, friendships, speech, amusements, styles, dress, and all areas of life. It also commands ecclesiastical separation from false religious teachers and from persistently disobedient brethren. Ecclesiastical separation includes a rejection of liberalism, Neo-Orthodoxy, New Evangelicalism, and the charismatic movement. Obedience to these commands brings the joy of full, unhindered fellowship with our Father. Romans 12:1-2; 16:17; 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1; 2 Thessalonians 3:6, 14-15.
We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:19-20; Matthew 3:16-17; Isaiah 45:5-6; John 17:3.
We believe in the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ (that He is, indeed, coequal with the Father), His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death for all mankind through His shed blood, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, His intercessory work, and His personal return in power and in glory. Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 21:27; 24:39; Romans 8:34; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 John 2:2; Colossians 2:9; Revelation 5:9.
We believe that God created the world in six literal days, including man as represented by the historical Adam who was created in the image of God and is not the product of any evolutionary process. Adam, by his own free will, sinned, which has caused the entire human race to be born with a sinful nature. This sinful nature, which we choose to exercise, results in the condemnation and wrath of God. Genesis 1.26; Romans 5:12.
We believe that to escape God's just condemnation and wrath, man must choose to experience spiritual birth by repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. A sinner is declared righteous by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. We believe in the the eternal security of the believer in Christ. John 1:12; 3:3; Romans 3:21-28; Titus 3:5; John 10:27-29; Ephesians 4:30; Romans 8:35-39; Hebrews 13:5.
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, Who convinces the sinner of his need of salvation, regenerates the repentant sinner, and places the believer into the body of Christ at the moment of salvation. He also seals, indwells, fills, guides, and teaches the believer. John 14:16-17, 26, 16:8-11, 13; Ephesians 4:30; 5:18; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20.
We believe that the church of Jesus Christ is the living spiritual body of which He Himself is the Head. While the church is the universal body of all New Testament believers, it is represented the local church which the Lord Jesus Christ has established to edify His people and equip them to evangelize the world. The local church is autonomous and entrusted with the administration of the ordinances: first, baptism by immersion after salvation as an outward sign of an inward work of grace; and secondly, the Lord’s Supper as a remembrance of the atonement of Christ till He comes. Matthew 28:19; 1 Corinthians 11:23-24; Ephesians 4:4-16; Colossians 2:12.
We believe in the pre-tribulational, pre-millennial rapture of the church, the body of Christ. We believe in the period of great tribulation of seven years following the rapture. The Great Tribulation (Daniel’s seventieth week) will end with the coming of Christ in power and glory to the earth to set up His kingdom and rule for a thousand years. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost: the saved unto the resurrection of life (eternal joy with the Savior), and the lost unto the resurrection of damnation (eternal death in Hell following the Great White Throne Judgment). We believe that Satan is a literal being and that Hell is a literal place of eternal, physical torment. Daniel 9:27; John 5:28-29; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 20:1-6, 10-15; 21:27.
We believe that God ordained marriage as a union of one man and one woman for life and that sexual intimacy is legitimate only within marriage. We believe that one's biological gender is God's design. Genesis 1:27; 2:22-25; Matthew 19:4-6.
To guard the purity of the truths mentioned above, we believe that the Scriptures command personal separation unto God from worldly attitudes, motives, goals, friendships, speech, amusements, styles, dress, and all areas of life. It also commands ecclesiastical separation from false religious teachers and from persistently disobedient brethren. Ecclesiastical separation includes a rejection of liberalism, Neo-Orthodoxy, New Evangelicalism, and the charismatic movement. Obedience to these commands brings the joy of full, unhindered fellowship with our Father. Romans 12:1-2; 16:17; 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1; 2 Thessalonians 3:6, 14-15.