Beliefs

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1. THE SCRIPTURES

We believe in the verbal and plenary inspiration of the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testament Scriptures which are inerrant in the original autographs and are supreme, sufficient, and final authority in faith and life.

2. GOD

We believe in one God—eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, existing as three Persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

3. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and is true God and true Man. Jesus Christ died on the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice for sin, bodily rose from the dead, ascended into heaven, now intercedes for believers, and is coming again for His church.

4. THE HOLY SPIRIT

We believe that the Holy Spirit is the person of the Godhead who in this present age convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, who regenerates and baptizes into the body of Christ those who believe, and who indwells and seals them unto the day of redemption. We believe the Holy Spirit is the Divine Teacher who guides believers into all truth, and it is the privilege of believers to be filled with, and their duty to walk in, the Holy Spirit. We are not in accord with the public or private use of sign gifts today.

5. CREATION

We believe that God created the heavens and the earth including all life, each after its own species, by direct act and not by the process of evolution.

6. MANKIND

We believe that man was created perfect in the image of God, that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death, but also spiritual and eternal death, which is separation from God, and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature and are sinners in thought, word, and deed.

7. SALVATION

We believe that all who exercise personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ are by grace born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God and are now justified by the blood of Christ, and that from that moment of belief are secured unto the day of redemption.

8. THE CHURCH

We believe that the Church of Jesus Christ was begun at Pentecost, is composed solely of believers, and is the Body and Bride of our Lord.

9. THE ORDINANCES

We believe that the Scriptural ordinances of the local church are Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.

10. FUTURE EVENTS

We believe in the imminent “Blessed Hope,” the rapture of the Church before the tribulation, and in the personal, pre-millennial coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to the earth with all His saints.

11. THE ETERNAL STATE

We believe in the resurrection of the just to conscious blessedness in heaven with the Lord, and the unjust to everlasting conscious punishment in the lake of fire with the devil and his angels.

12. THE PERSONALITY OF SATAN

We believe that there is a personal, created being called Satan who is full of all subtlety, who seeks continually to frustrate the purposes of God and to ensnare the sons of men, and who was conquered by Christ on the cross and condemned to everlasting punishment.

13. SEPARATION

We believe that the holiness of God demands that separation is a doctrine as well as a practice, and that the separation principle runs through the entire Bible. We believe that true spiritual fellowship is the result of common faith and practice.

14. MISSIONS

We believe that missions is the obedience of churches and individuals to Christ’s Great Commission.