We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam’s sin the race fell, inherited a sinful nature, became subject to physical and spiritual death, became alienated from God and is totally unable to remedy its lost condition. (Gen. 1:26, 2:17, 6:5; Ps. 14:1-3, 51:5; Rom 3:22-23, 5:12; Eph. 2:1-3, 12)

4. The Person and Work of Christ

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became a man, without ceasing to be fully God, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, in order to reveal God to many and redeem sinful men. We believe that our redemption is made sure for us by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead. (John 1:1-2; Luke 1:35; Romans 2:24-25, 4:25; 1 Pet. 1:3-5; Hebrews 10:5-14)

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to heaven and was accepted by His Father and that His acceptance is a final assurance to us that His redeeming work was perfectly accomplished. He is now exalted at the right hand of God, where as the High Priest for His people, He fulfills the ministry of Representative, Intercessor and Advocate. (Hebrews 1:3; Acts 1:9-10; Romans 8:34; Hebrews 9:24, 7:25; Eph. 1:22-23; 1 John 2:1-2)

5. Salvation

We believe that, because of universal death through sin, no one can enter into the kingdom of God unless they are born again; that no degree of\ reformation, no attainments in morality, no culture, no baptism or other ordinances, however administered, can help the sinner to take even one step toward heaven; but a new life implanted by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential to salvation, and only those thus saved are sons of God. We believe that our redemption has been accomplished solely by the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, who was made to be sin for us; and that no repentance, no feeling, no faith, no good resolutions, no sincere efforts, no submission to the rules and regulation of the church can add in the very least degree to the value of the blood or to the merit of the finished work of redemption accomplished for us by Jesus Christ. (Lev. 17:11; Isaiah 64:6; Matt. 26:28; John 3:7-18; Rom. 5:6-9; For. 5:21; Gal. 6:15; Eph. 1:7; Phil. 3:4-9; Gal. 3:12; Titus 3:5; James 1:18; 1 Pet. 1:18-19, 23)

We believe that salvation is the gift of God brought to man by grace and received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; that repentance is a vital part of believing, and is in no way, in itself, a separate and independent condition of salvation. (John 1:12, 3:16, 18:36, 5:24; Acts 16:31; Rom. 1:16-17, 3:22-26, 4:5, 10:4; Gal. 3:22; Eph. 2:8-10)

We believe that when a person places his personal trust in Christ that he becomes a child of God, that he passes immediately out of spiritual death into spiritual life, that thus having a right relationship with God he is accepted before the Father just like Christ, His Son, is accepted, loved as Christ is loved, linked to Him and one with Him forever. Though the saved one grows in his experience of his spiritual possession in Christ, he is, as soon as he is saved, absolutely complete in Christ and is, therefore, in no way required or instructed by God to seek a so-called “second blessing,” or “second work of grace.” (John 5:25, 17:23; Acts 13:39; Rom. 5:1; 1 For. 3:21-23, Eph. 1:3; Col. 2:10; 1 John 4:17, 5:11-12).

We believe that all true believers once saved, are kept secure forever and can never be lost. (John 5:24, 6:37-40, 10:27-30; Rom. 8:1, 29-30, 38-39; 1 John 4:17, 5:11-12)

We believe that it is the privilege of Christians to rejoice in their security but that our security and liberty is never to be turned into an occasion to indulge in the sin of the flesh. (Luke 10:20; Rom. 13:13-14; Gal. 5:13; Titus 2:11-15; Heb. 10:22; 1 John 5:11-13)

6. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit

We believe that the Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Trinity who convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, regenerates and indwells all believers in the present age, baptizes them into the Body of Christ at the moment of salvation, seals them unto the day of redemption and distributes spiritual abilities for service in the Body. Each Christian is responsible to maintain a daily walk with the Spirit. (Rom. 8:4; 1 For. 12:12-14; Eph. 1:13-14, 5:18; John 16:8-11; 1 John 2:2-27)

7. The Church

We believe that the Church of Jesus Christ began on the day of Pentecost and is composed of all born again believers regardless of membership or non- membership in the organized churches of the earth. We believe that all genuine believers are unified by their common life and bond in Christ formed by the baptism of the Holy Spirit and that the saved are to keep the unity formed by the Spirit in humility, love, and peach toward all Christians. (Matt. 16:16-18; Acts 2:42-47; Rom. 12:5; 1 Cor. 12:12-27; Eph. 1:20-23, 4:3-10; Col. 3:14-15)

We believe that the two ordinances of the church are water baptism and the Lord’s Supper and that participation in these Dows not give merit or grace to the believer. We believe that the Lord’s Supper is the sign of the New Covenant which Christ instituted. It is not a sacrament that gives grace and, therefore, necessary for salvation but is a memorial through which the believer testifies to and celebrates his redemption from slavery to sin. It shall be the policy of this church to serve the Lord’s Supper approximately twelve (12) times a year; at the discretion of the pastor and Council of Elders. (Matt. 28:19; Luke 22:19-20; John 3:22-25; Acts 10:47-48; 16:32-33; 18:7-8; Rom. 6:1-6; 1 Cor. 11:26, 12:12-13)

We believe in baptism by water as a step of obedience after regeneration and as an outward symbol of the work of the Holy Spirit in identifying the believer with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection. All members are urged to partake in the Believers’ Baptism. (Matt. 28:19-20; Acts 2:41-42; Acts 16:31-33)

8. Satan

We believe that Satan is a real person who is the open and declared enemy of God, all men and especially Christians, (Job 1:6-7; Matt. 4:2-11; Is. 14:12-17; Ezek. 28:11-19; Eph. 6:1-17; 1 Pet. 5:8-9) and whose destiny is everlasting punishment. (Rev. 20:10)

9. The Blessed Hope

We believe in the “Blessed Hope,” the personal in imminent return of our Lord Jesus Christ for His redeemed ones; and in His subsequent return to earth with His saints to establish His millennial kingdom. (John 14:1-3; 1 Cor. 15; Phil. 3:20-21; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; Titus 2:11-14)

10. The Eternal State

We believe that at death the spirits and souls of those who have trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation pass immediately into His presence and there remain in conscious bliss until the resurrection of the glorified body when Christ comes for His own, where upon soul and body are reunited. The spirits and souls of the unbelieving remain after death conscious of condemnation and in misery until the final judgment of the Great White Throne at the close of the\ millennium, when should and body reunited shall be cast into the lake of fire, not to be annihilated, but to be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power. (Luke 16:19-26, 23:43; 2 Cor. 5:8; Phil. 1:2; 2 Thess. 1:7-9; Rev. 20:11-15)