OUR BELIEFS
We Believe The Bible…
The Bible is God’s Word given by divine inspiration, the record of God’s revelation of God's self to humanity. It is trustworthy, sufficient, and the supreme authority and guide for all doctrine and conduct. It is the truth by which God brings people into a saving relationship with God and leads them to Christian maturity.
We Believe in the Trinity…
We believe in the one living and true God, perfect in wisdom, sovereignty, holiness, justice, mercy, and love. Further, we believe God exists eternally in three coequal persons who act together in creation, providence, and redemption.
The Father: Who reigns with providential care over all life and history in the created universe. The Father hears and answers prayer. Further, the Father initiated salvation by sending Jesus Christ (the Father’s Son). Further, God is Father to those who by faith accept Jesus as Lord and Savior.
The Son: Jesus Christ, who became man, who was conceived of the Holy Spirit, and born of the Virgin Mary. Being fully God and fully man, He revealed God through His sinless life, miracles, and teaching. He provided salvation through His atoning death in our place and by His bodily resurrection. He ascended into heaven where He rules over all creation.
The Holy Spirit: Inspired men to write the Scriptures. Through the Word, the Holy Spirit convicts individuals of their sinfulness and of the righteousness of Christ, draws them to the Savior, and bears witness to their new birth. At regeneration and conversion, the believer is baptized in the Holy Spirit. The Spirit indwells, seals, and gives spiritual gifts to all believers for ministry in the church and society. The Holy Spirit empowers, guides, teaches, fills, sanctifies, and produces the fruit of Christlikeness in all who yield to the Holy Spirit.
We Believe in Regeneration and Salvation…
We believe that the Scriptures teach that in order to be saved, sinners must be regenerated, or born again; that regeneration consists in giving a holy disposition to the mind that it is effected in a manner above our comprehension by the power of the Holy Spirit in connection with divine truth, so as to secure our voluntary obedience to the Gospel; and that its proper evidence appears in the holy fruits of repentance and faith, and newness of life.
We believe in the Church…
We believe the Church is the body of which Christ is the head and all who believe in Him are members. Christians are commanded to be baptized upon profession of faith and to unite with a local church for mutual encouragement and growth in discipleship through worship, nurture, service, and the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world. The ordinances of the church are baptism and the Lord’s Supper.