what we believe
What we believe about love: We believe that love for one 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. (Matthew 22:35-40; John 13:34,35; John 15:12; 1 John 4:7-21; 1 John 5:1-3; Revelation 2:4,5)
What we believe about the Bible: 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; 2 Timothy 3:16, 17)
What we believe about God: We believe in the personal triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, equal in divine perfection. (Matthew 28:19)
What we believe about Creation: We believe in the Genesis account of Creation. (Genesis 1:2)
What we believe about Satan: 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. (Isaiah 14:12-15; Ezekiel 28:11-19; Matthew 25:41; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Ephesians 6:10-17; Revelation 20:10)
What we believe about the Humanity of Jesus Christ: We believe in the virgin birth and sinless humanity of Jesus Christ. (Matthew 1:18-20; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:22)
We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ. (John 10:30; John 1:1, 14; 2 Corinthians 5:19)
What we believe about the Holy Spirit: We believe the Holy Spirit is the divine administrator for Jesus Christ in HIs churches. (Luke 24: 49; John 14:16; Acts 1:4,5,8; Acts 2:1-4)
What we believe about spiritual gifts: We believe that the miraculous spiritual manifestation gifts were done away when the Bible was completed. Faith, Hope, and Love are vital abiding spiritual gifts. (1 Corinthians chapters 12-14)
What we believe about the fall of man: We believe that man was created in the image of God and lived in innocency until he fell by voluntary transgression from his sinless state, the result being that all mankind are sinners. (Genesis 1:26; Genesis 3:6-24; Romans 5:12,19)
What we believe about the vicarious sacrifice of Christ: We believe that the suffering and death of Jesus Christ was substitutionary for all mankind and is efficacious only to those who believe. (Isaiah 53:6; Hebrews 2:9; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 3:18; 2 Peter 3:18; 2 Peter 3:9; 1 John 2:2)
What we believe about the resurrection of Christ: We believe in the bodily resurrection and ascension of Christ and the bodily resurrection of HIs saints. (Matthew 28:1-7; Acts 1:9-11; 1 Corinthians 15:42-58; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)
What we believe about the return of Christ: 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; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 2 Thessalonians 2:8; Revelation 19; Revelation 20:4-6; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:8)
What we believe about the way of salvation: 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; Romans 6:23; Ephesians 2:8,9), and that the Holy Spirit convicts sinners, regenerates, seals, secures, and indwells every believer. (John 3:6; John 16:8,9; Romans 8:9-11; 1 Corinthians 6:19, 20; Ephesians 4:30; Titus 3:5)
What we believe about eternal security of the believer: We believe that all who trust Jesus Christ for salvation are eternally secure in Him and shall not perish. (John 3:36l John 5:24; John 10:27-30; Romans 8:35-39; Hebrews 10:39; 1 Peter 1:5)
What we believe about God's chastisement of believers: We believe that God deals with believers as His children, that He chastises the disobedient, and that He rewards the obedient. (Matthew 16:27; Matthew 25:14-23; John 1:12; Hebrews 12:5-11; 2 John 8; Revelation 22:12)
What we believe about the Church: 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 relation 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. (Matthew 4:18-22; Matthew 16:18; Matthew 28:19,20; Mark 1:14-20; John 1:35-51; Ephesians 3:21)
What we believe about the ordinance of baptism and the Lord's Supper: 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. (Matthew 28:19, 20; Acts 8:12, 38; Romans 6:4; 1 Corinthians 5:11-13; 1 Corinthians 11:1, 2, 17-20, 26)
What we believe about the office of a Pastor and Deacons: 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.
What we believe about Church associations: We believe that all associations, fellowships, and committees are, and properly should be, servants of, and under control of the churches. (Matthew 20:25-28)
What we believe about civil government: 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. (Romans 13:1-7; 1 Peter 2:13-15)
What we believe about marriage: We believe the Biblical definition of marriage is the union between a man and a woman. (Genesis 2:21-24; Matthew 19:4-6; Mark 10:6-9; 1 Corinthians 7:2-4; Ephesians 5:22-31)
What we believe about Gender Identity: We believe God designates each individual their gender. God ordained two genders, male and female. Mankind does not possess the authority to identify themselves differently than their biological sex assigned by God, and any attempt to alter one's gender is sin. (Genesis 1:27; 5:2; Matthew 19:4, Mark 10:6; Job 40:8; Jeremiah 13:23)