THE SCRIPTURES
We believe that the Holy Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, are
verbally, plenarily, and inerrantly inspired of God and that they
constitute the absolute authority in all matters of faith and life.
2 Tim. 3:16,17; 2 Pet. 1 :21; Matt.
24:35; Psalm 119:89
THE GODHEAD
We believe in the Trinity, a triune Godhead, being eternally
existent in three Persons: God the Father, God the Son and God
the Holy Spirit; equal in all their attributes.
Deut. 6:4; Gen. :1,2,26; John 1 :1-13; Matt.
28:19; 2 Cor. 13:14; Rev. 1:8,17,18
MAN'S CREATION AND FALL
We believe that man was made in the image of God, a special
creation of God and not a product of evolutionary development.
However, man disobeyed his Creator and incurred spiritual death,
total corruption and divine condemnation. Because of this, man
is a sinner by nature and practice and is in need of Divine
redemption.
Gen. 1:26,27; 2:16; 3:6; Rom. 5:12,18; Rom.
3:10,23; John 3:18,36
THE PERSON AND WORK OF CHRIST
We believe in the deity and humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ,
one Person possessing two natures, making Him very God and very
man. In His deity, He is Creator and Sustainer of the universe;
in His humanity, He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, virgin
born of Mary, lived a sinless life, died a substitutionary death
for sinners, arose bodily from the grave, ascended into heaven,
and is now seated at the right hand of the Father, where He ever
intercedes as a Mediator for the righteous.
John 1:1,4; Luke 1 :31-35; Phil. 2:7,8; Col.
1: 16,17; 2 Cor. 5:21; 1 Pet. 2:24; Eph. 1 :7; Heb. 9:12; 1 Cor.
15:1-8,20; Heb. 1:3
THE HOLY SPIRIT
We believe that the Holy Spirit is the Third Person of the
Godhead, who convicts, regenerates, indwells, baptizes and seals
all believers in Christ and fills those who are yielded to Him.
We believe that the Holy Spirit sovereignly bestows gifts to all
believers for the purpose of maturing and strengthening the Body
of Christ but that some gifts are permanent while others were
temporary, given only in the apostolic age until the completion
of the New Testament.
John 6:44; 16:8,11,13,14;Titus 3:5; John 3:5;
1 Cor.12:13; Eph.1:13; 4:30; 1 Cor. 13:8; Eph. 5:18
SALVATION
We believe that salvation is the free gift of God which can only
be appropriated when an individual recognizes he is a sinner and
turns to Jesus Christ as the only sufficient payment for man's
sins, placing his personal faith in His finished work on the
cross. Since salvation is wholly of grace and cannot be earned
in whole or in part by our works, the believer is eternally
secure in Christ.
Rom. 5:15; 6:23; Eph. 2:8,9; John 1 :12; Rom.
10:9-13; Titus 3:5; Acts 16:31; John 5:24
THE CHURCH
We believe in the historic Baptist belief that a scriptural
church is a democracy of believers meeting in some local place
with Pastors and Deacons as the only recognized biblical
officers; sovereign and autonomous in deciding matters of church
policy and affiliation; and composed only of individuals who
profess to have been born again and have been immersed in water,
according to the Scriptures, upon their confession of faith in
our Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour.
Acts 2:1,41,42; Phil. 1:1; Titus 1 :5; 1 Tim.
3:1-15
LAST THINGS
We believe that our Blessed Hope is the imminent return of the
Lord to rapture His Church. This event is followed in order by
the seven year Tribulation period, the Second Coming of Christ
to the earth to rule for one thousand years, and the Great White
Throne judgment of the lost. This sequence of events will issue
in the conscious states of everlasting punishment for the
unsaved and everlasting blessing for the redeemed.
1 Thess. 4:13-18; Rev. 19:11-16; 20:1-6; 1
Thess. 1:10; 5:9; Titus2:13; 2 Thess.1:7-9
DISPENSATIONALISM
We believe that the Scriptures, interpreted in their natural,
literal sense, demonstrate that God has progressively revealed
Himself in successive dispensations and that the present
dispensation is that of the Church. While the revelation of God
may have differed through the ages, the means by which man must
be saved has always been the same: through faith. We believe
that a careful study of the Scriptures reveal a distinct as well
as separate plan for Israel and the Church, contrary to the
teaching of many modern movements.
John 1 :17; 2 Cor. 3:6-18; Gal. 3:13; Eph. 1
:10; Col. 1 :14-27; Gen. 17:8; Deut. 30:3; 2 Sam.7; Jer. 31 :33
CHRISTIAN LIFE AND SERVICE
We believe that the fulfillment of the Great Commission is the
responsibility of every believer, that he is to be a personal
soul-winner, that he is to disciple new converts, and that he is
to enlist them in the life of the local church. In the
accomplishment of this commission, we believe that one must be
personally separate from sin and be separate from religious
apostasy and ecclesiastical ecumenism which denies the
fundamentals of the faith.
Matt 28:19,20; 1 Cor. 5:11; 6:19,20; 2 Cor
6:14-18
SATAN
We believe that Satan is a spiritual being, the author of sin
and the cause of the fall of Adam; that he is the open and
declared enemy of God and man; and that he shall be eternally
punished in the Lake of Fire.
Job 1 :6,7; Isaiah 14:12-17; Matt. 4:2-11;
Rev. 20:10
DESTINY OF THE REDEEMED & LOST
We believe that the souls of the redeemed are, at death, absent
from the body and present with the Lord, where in conscious
bliss they await the first resurrection, when spirit, soul, and
body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord; and
that the souls of unbelievers remain, after death, in conscious
misery until the second resurrection, when with soul and body
reunited, they shall be made to appear at the Great White Throne
Judgment, and shall be cast into the Lake of Fire, not to be
annihilated, but to suffer everlasting punishment.
2 Cor. 5:8; Phil. 1 :23; 3:21; 1 Cor.
15:51-53; Rev. 20:4,5,11-15; Luke 16:19-26; 2 Thess. 1 :7-9
THE ORDINANCES
We believe that there are only two ordinances to be participated
in by the local church. They are: Baptism and The Lord's Supper.
We believe that baptism is to be administered only to those who
have made a conscious decision for Christ and therefore reject
infant baptism as a legitimate ordinance. We believe the mode of
baptism is full immersion in water, and therefore reject
sprinkling and pouring as a legitimate means of baptism. The
very word "baptize" is a transliteration of a Greek word meaning
"immerse or submerge." The symbolic nature of baptism points to
a "burial" and history points to immersion as the
form in the early Church. We reject the doctrine of
"transubstantiation" or "consubstantiation" for the Lord's
Supper and also the Reformed theology of the presence of Christ
in the elements. The Lord's Supper is to be a symbolic
remembrance of our Lord's suffering and death on the cross for
our sins and imparts no grace, saving or otherwise to the
individual, but rather is to be considered a "memorial".
Acts 2:41,42; 8:36-39; Matt. 26:26-29; 1
Cor. 11:23-26
BIBLE TRANSLATIONS
In a day when there is much confusion over the versions of the
Bible, we accept and use only the "authorized" or King James
Version of the Holy Scriptures We believe that in accordance
with Psalm 12:6,7 and Matt. 24:35, God has preserved His Word
through the Masoretic Hebrew Text for the Old Testament and the
Textus Receptus Greek Text for the New Testament and that the
King James Version of the Bible is a true and faithful
translation of these two providentially preserved texts.
MODERN RELIGIOUS TRENDS
We believe that the modern Charismatic Movement (i.e., tongues,
prophecies, healers, signs and wonders, etc.) is NOT biblical
and we do not accept it as being from God. We also believe that
the Ecumenical drive to unite all religions into one super
church is totally unscriptural.
2 Cor. 6:14-18
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