WE BELIEVE
the Bible is the word of God. It is divinely inspired and the supreme and final authority for faith and life.
(II Timothy 3:16, 17)
WE BELIEVE
in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into heaven, and His present life for us as high priest and advocate.
(I Corinthians 15:4; Acts 1:9-11; I John 2:1,2)
WE BELIEVE
in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
(II Corinthians 13:14)
WE BELIEVE
in “the second coming;” the personal return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
(I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Matthew 24:29-31)
WE BELIEVE
that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary and is true God and true man.
(Luke 2:26-32; Colossians 1:15-18; Hebrews 2:14-18)
WE BELIEVE
that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God, a relationship in which they are secure.
(Acts 16:31; Romans 8:38,39; Hebrews 3:5)
WE BELIEVE
that man was created in the image of God; that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death, but also spiritual death which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, and in the case of those who reach moral responsibility, become sinners in thought, word, and deed.
(Romans 3:23; Romans 5:12)
WE BELIEVE
that after a person is saved by faith in Jesus Christ he should publicly confess Christ and be baptized. We practice baptism by immersion only.
(Ephesians 2:8,9; Romans 6:3,4; Matthew 10:32,33)
WE BELIEVE
that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood.
(Colossians 1:14; Romans 3:23-26)
WE BELIEVE
in the bodily resurrection of the just and of the unjust: The everlasting blessedness of the saved and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost.
(I Thessalonians 4:16, 17; Revelation 20:11-15)