Our Beliefs

We believe in the divine inspiration and authority of scriptures.  By this we mean that the Holy Spirit miraculously guided the writers in their original writings and that this miraculous guidance extends to all parts of the Scriptures equally, applying even to the choices of the words, so that the result is the very Word of God; the only inerrant infallible rule of faith and practice.  Moreover, it is our conviction that God has exercised singular care and providence through the ages in preserving the written Word, that the Scriptures as we now have them are in every essential particular as originally given, and contain all that is necessary to salvation and an ordered life toward Christian maturity.  II Timothy 3:16-17; II Peter 1:20-21

 

    We believe that by one man sin entered  into human experience and that original sin is the birthright of every human being resulting in the total depravity of each individual which necessitates his rebirth in Christ.  Genesis 3:6-24; Ephesians 2:1-3; Romans 3.

 

    We believe in the death of Jesus Christ as a true substitute for sinners and that His death was sufficient atonement for the guilt of all who receives Him.  We believe that His sacrifice made salvation available for every human being.  John 8-38; Ephesians 2:8;

Titus 3:5; Romans 4:16

 

     We believe that Jesus Christ literally died, was buried, and rose bodily from the grave on the third day for our justification and that He is coming in like manner as He went away to receive believers to Himself.  Acts 1:11; Acts 15:16; Zechariah 4:9; Revelation 11:15;

Luke 1:31-32

 

     We believe that human beings are justified by faith alone and are accounted righteous before God only by the merit of our Lord Jesus Christ in whom we have eternal security.  Matthew 3:1-13; Mark 1:14-15; Romans 8:35-39; John 10:27-30

 

     We believe that Jesus Christ was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life and is personally coming to receive His own to Himself before beginning His millennial reign.

 

     We believe in everlasting conscious blessedness of the saved, in a place called Heaven and the everlasting conscious punishment of the unsaved, in a place called Hell.  Daniel 12:1-2; John 5:28-29; Mark 9:43-48; I Thessalonians 4:14-17; Revelation 20:11-15;

I Corinthians 15:51-54

 

     We believe in one God who is revealed as existing in three equal persons; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.  Psalm 83:18; Matthew 28:19