Statement
of Faith
We
believe in all the basic doctrines of historic Christianity.
We believe that the Scriptures are without error, that the
bible, both the Old and the New Testament are the inspired,
infallible Word of God.
We believe that there is only one God, who eternally existent
in three distinct persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
We believe that God is the personal, transcendent, and sovereign
Creator of all things.
We
believe that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human,
that He was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, provided
for the atonement of our sins by His substitutionary death
on the cross, was bodily raised from the dead, ascended
back to the right hand of the Father, and ever lives to
make intercession for us.
We believe in the personal, visible, and pre-millennial
second coming of Jesus Christ to the earth. He will return
with His saints and set up a kingdom of which there will
be no end.
We believe after Jesus ascended to Heaven, He poured out
His Holy Spirit on the believers in Jerusalem, enabling
them to fulfill His command to preach the Gospel to the
entire world, an obligation shared by all believers today.
We believe that all people are, by nature, separated from
God and responsible for their own sin, but that salvation,
redemption, and forgiveness are freely offered to all by
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. When a person repents
of sin and accepts Jesus Christ as personal Savior and Lord,
trusting Him to save, that person is immediately born again
and sealed by the Holy Spirit, all his/her sins are forgiven,
and that person becomes a child of God, destined to spend
eternity with the Lord.
We believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit mentioned in
the Scriptures, and that they are valid for today if they
are exercised within the scriptural guidelines. We as believers
are to covet the best gifts, seeking to exercise them in
love that the whole Body of Christ might be edified. We
believe that love is more important than the most spectacular
gifts, and without this love all exercise of spiritual gifts
is worthless.