Statement of Faith
The Bible
We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God, inerrant in the original manuscripts, infallible, and the sole authority on matters of faith and holiness.
God - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
We believer that there are three persons in the Godhead, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and that they are one, each with the same nature and attributes. We believe that God is Spirit, infinite, eternal, perfect, and unchangeable in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth, that He sovereignly rules all of His creation and that all things exist by Him and for His glory.
We believe that the Father for His own glory has foreordained whatsoever comes to pass, including the salvation of His people whom He chose in Christ from the foundation of the world. We believe that the Son was sent into the world to become a man, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, without sin, He suffered and died to secure the redemption of the people of God, He was raised again the third day, He is now exalted at the right hand of the Father, making intercession for us, and He is the coming Eternal King.
We believe that the Holy Spirit is sent by the Father and the Son to reveal and exalt Christ. He convicts and regenerates the elect. He indwells, seals, and sanctifies them. He gives them spiritual gifts for ministry in the church. He is Christ's teacher and guide.
Angels
We believe that angels are created spirit-beings. The elect angels are empowered to worship God and minister His pleasure.
Satan and Demons
We believe that Satan, a fallen angel, is the responsible agent of sin that opposes the work of Christ in the world. He is doomed to face certain eternal judgment along with demons (fallen angels) who are also working with him to thwart God's purposes in the world.
Man and Sin
We believe that man was created in the image of God, but fell in Adam. Because of Adam's sin, fallen man is justly under Divine condemnation. He is dead in trespasses and sins, incapable of knowing and doing the will of God, and under the wrath of God for his personal sins.
Salvation
We believe that salvation is entirely a work of God. It is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, who died on the cross as a substitute for sinners to satisfy the righteousness of God.
We believe that faith is a gift of God, imparted by God through His Word, having the person and work of Jesus Christ as it's object.
We believe that salvation consists in, Justification, whereby believers are granted the forgiveness of sins and declared to have the righteousness of Christ, Sanctification, whereby they are separated unto God, to be led daily in the paths of righteousness and made increasingly like Christ, and Glorification whereby they will be finally transformed into the very image of Jesus Christ at the return of the Lord.
We believe that those who are saved are kept by the power of God through faith and that they will manifest a transformation of life by obedience to the Word of God and the fruit of the Spirit. True believers are to be of one mind, the mind of Christ, in preferring the eternal over the temporal, denying self to follow Christ, resisting the world, the flesh and the devil, being willing to suffer rather than to sin, desiring to give rather than to receive, and living as unto Christ.
The Church
We believe the church is the body of Christ of which every true believer in this present age is a member and that we become members of the body of Christ at the time of salvation by the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
We believer that the local church consists of those in a given locality who profess faith in Christ and that it exists for the glory of God through the teaching of the Word, for the edification of the saints, for the fellowship of the saints, and for a witness to the world.
We believe that the local church is to observe the ordinances of the baptism of the believer by immersion and the Lord's supper.
We believe that Christ is the head of His church exercising His authority according to scripture through the leadership of spiritual men in the church serving as Elders and Deacons.
The Last Things
We believer in the bodily return of Jesus Christ in glory and in His millennial reign with His saints upon the earth. We believe that God has kept the day of Christ's return unknown that we maybe always watchful, living in the fear of the Lord, purifying ourselves, waiting for God's Son from heaven and “Looking for that blessed hope, and glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.” We believe in the resurrection of all who have died, the wicked to eternal damnation and the righteous to eternal glory. "Even so come Lord Jesus."
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