Our Beliefs
We believe that love one for
another as Jesus loves the believer manifests our
discipleship, proves our love for God and symbolizes our
authority as New Testament churches. Love is therefore
the great commandment of the LORD Jesus Christ upon
which all others are dependent (Matt. 22:35-40; John
13:34,35; John 15:12; 1st John 4:7-21; 1st John 5:1-3;
Rev. 2:4,5)
We believe in the infallible,
verbal inspiration of the whole Bible and that the Bible
is the all sufficient rule of faith and practice (Psalm
119:160; 2nd Tim 3:16,17)
We believe in the personal triune God: Father. Son, and
Holy Spirit equal in divine
perfection (Matt. 28:19)
We believe in the Gensis
account of Creation (Gen 1:2)
We believe that Satan is a fallen angel, the archenemy
of God and man, the unholy god of this world, and that
his destiny is the eternal lake of fire (Isa. 14:12-15;
Ezek. 28:11-19; Matt. 25:41; 2nd Cor. 4:4; Eph. 6:10-17;
Rev. 20-10)
We believe in the virgin birth and sinless humanity of
Jesus Christ (Matt. 1:18-20; 2nd Cor. 5:21; 1 Peter
2:22)
We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ (John 10:30;
John 1:1,14; 2nd Cor. 5:19)
We believe the Holy Spirit is the divine Administrator
for Jesus Christ in His churches (Luke 24:49; John
14:16, 17; Acts 1:4,5,8; Acts 2:1-4)
We believe that miraculous spiritual manifestation gifts
were done away when the Bible was completed. Faith, Hope
and Love are the vital abiding Spiritual Gifts (1st Cor.
Chapters 12-14)
We believe that man was created in the image of God and
lived in inncency until he fell by voluntary
transgression from his sinless state, the result being
that all mankind are sinners (Gen. 1:26; Gen. 3:6-24;
Rom. 5:12,19)
We believe that the suffering and death of Jesus Christ
was substitutionary for all mankind and is efficacious
only to those who believe (Isa 53:6 Heb 2:9 1st Peter
2:24 1st Peter 3:18 2nd Peter 3:9 1st John 2:2)
We believe in the bodily resurrection and ascension of
Christ and the bodily resurrection of his saints (Matt
28:1-7 Acts 1:9-11 1st Cor. 15:42-58 1st Thess 4:13-
We believe in the premillennial, personal, bodily return
of Christ as the crowning event of the Gentile age. This
event will include the resurrection of the righteous to
eternal heaven, and the Millennium will be followed by
the resurrection of the unrighteous unto eternal
punishment in the lake of fire and that the righteous
shall enter into the heaven age (John 14:1-6 1st Thess
4:13-18 2nd thess 2:8 Rev 20:4-6 Rev. 20:11-15 Rev.
21:8)
We believe that the depraved sinner is saved wholly by
grace through faith in Jesus Christ, and the requisites
to regeneration are repentance toward God and faith in
the Lord Jesus Christ (Luke 13:3-5 John 3:16-18 Acts
20:21 Rom. 6:23 Eph 2:8,9) and that the Holy Spirit
convicts sinners, regenerates, seals, secures, and
indwells every believer (John 3:6 John16:8 Rom. 8:9-11
1st Cor. 6:19,20 Eph. 4:30 Titus 3:5
We believe that all who trust Jesus Christ for salvation
are eternally secure in Him and shall not perish (John
3:36 John 10:27-30 Rom 8:35-39 Heb. 10:39 1st Peter 1:5
We believe that God deals with believers as His
children, that He chastises the disobedient, and that He
rewards the obedient (Matt 16:27 Matt 25:14-23 John 1:12
Heb. 12:5-11 2nd John 8 Rev. 22:12
We believe that Jesus Christ established His church
during His ministry on earth and that it is always a
local, visible assembly of scripturally baptized
believers in covenant relationship to carry out the
Commission of the Lord Jesus Christ, and each church is
an independent, self governing body, and no other
ecclesiastical body may exercise authority over it. We
believe that Jesus Christ gave the Great Commission to
the New Testament churches only, and that He promised
the perpetuity of His churches (Matt 4:18-22 Matt. 16:18
Matt 28:19,20 Mark 1:14-20 John 1:35-51 Eph. 3:21)
We believe that there are two pictorial ordinances in
the Lord's churches: Baptism and the Lord's Supper.
Scriptural baptism is the immersion of penitent
believers in water administered by the authority of a
New Testament church in the name of the Father , Son and
Holy Spirit. The Lord's Supper is a memorial ordinance,
restricted to the members of the church observing the
ordinance (Matt28:19,20 Acts 8:12,38 Rom 6:4 1st Cor.
5:11-13 1st Cor. 11:1,2,17-20.26)
We believe that there are two divinely appointed offices
in a church, Pastors and deacons, to be filled by men
whose qualifications are set forth in Titus and 1
Timothy
We believe that all associations, fellowships, and
committees are and properly should be servants of and
under control of the churches (Matt 20:25-28)
We believe in freedom of worship without interference
from the government and affirm our belief in civil
obedience, unless the laws and regulations of civil
government run contrary to the Holy Scriptures (Rom
13:1-7 1st Peter 2:13-15)