We hold to a Statement of Faith which we believe is a faithful summary of what the Bible teaches…

THE BIBLE
We believe the sixty six books of the Bible to be the complete Word of God; fully inspired and without error in the original manuscripts written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and that it has supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct and is sufficient for all that God requires for us to believe and do.   (Psalm 12:6, Isaiah 40:8, Mathew 4:4, Mark 13:31, John 20:31, 2 Timothy 3:16, 2 Peter 1: 20-21 Revelation 22:18-19)

GOD
We believe in one God, Creator of all, holy, sovereign, eternal, existing in three equal Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.  (Genesis 1-2, Deuteronomy 6:4-5, 2 Corinthians 13:14)

JESUS CHRIST
We believe in the absolute and essential deity and humanity of Jesus Christ. We believe in His eternal existence with the Father in pre-incarnate glory, in His virgin birth, sinless life, substitutionary death, bodily resurrection, triumphant ascension, mediatorial ministry and personal return.    (Matthew 1:18-23, John 1:1-18, Romans 5:12-19, 1 Corinthians 15:1-8, 1 Timothy 2:5, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, Hebrews 4:15)

THE HOLY SPIRIT
We believe in the absolute and essential deity and personality of the Holy Spirit who convinces of sin, of righteousness and of judgment; who regenerates, sanctifies, illuminates and comforts those who believe in Jesus Christ. (John 7:37-39, 14:16-17, Romans 8:9, 1 Corinthians 12:13)

SATAN
We believe that Satan exists as an evil personality, the originator of sin, with limited power, the archenemy of God and man.    (Genesis 3:1-15, Job 1:6-2, 2 Corinthians 11:13-15, 1 Peter 5:8-9)

HUMANITY
We believe that people were divinely created in the image of God; that they sinned, becoming guilty before God, resulting in total depravity, thereby incurring physical and spiritual death. (Genesis 1:26-31, 3:1-13,  Romans 5:12,21, 6:23)

SALVATION
We believe that salvation is by the sovereign, electing grace of God; that by the appointment of the Father, Christ voluntarily suffered a vicarious, expiatory and propitiatory death; that justification is by faith alone in the all-sufficient sacrifice and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and that those whom God has effectually called shall be divinely preserved and finally perfected in the image of the Lord.  (John 3:18-20, 6:35-40, Romans 3:19-26, 8:28-30, 1 Peter 1:18-23)

FUTURE THINGS
We believe in the personal, bodily and glorious return of the Lord Jesus Christ to earth and the establishment of his kingdom; we believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust; in the eternal felicity and blessedness of the redeemed and in the judgment of the unrepentant in the conscious, eternal punishment of hell.   (Matthew 25:46, Mark 14:62,  John 5:28-29, John 14:3, Acts 1:11, Philippians 3:18-21, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, 2 Thessalonians 1:6-10, 2 Timothy 4:1, Titus 2:11-14, Revelation 20:4-15, Revelation 21:1-5, Revelation 20-22)

THE LOCAL CHURCH
We believe that a church is a company of baptized believers, called out from the world, separated unto the Lord Jesus, voluntarily associated for the ministry of the Word, the mutual edification of its members, the propagation of the faith and the observance of the ordinances. We believe it is a sovereign, independent body, exercising its own divinely awarded gifts, precepts and privileges under the Lordship of Christ, the Great Head of the church. We believe that its officers are elders/pastors and deacons.  (2 Timothy 2:19, Romans 12:3-8, Ephesians 4:1-16,  1 Timothy 3:1-15, 1 Peter 2:9-10)

ORDINANCES
We believe that there are two ordinances for the church regularly observed in the New Testament in the following order:

• • • Baptism, which is the immersion of the believer in water, whereby they obey Christ’s command and set forth their identification with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection. (Acts 2:41, 8:35-39, Romans 6:14)
    • The Lord’s Supper, which is the memorial wherein the believer partakes of the two elements, bread and wine, which symbolize the Lord’s body and shed blood, proclaiming His death until He comes. (Luke 22:19, 1 Corinthians 10:17, 11:24-26)
       

SPIRITUAL GIFTS
We believe that the Holy Spirit administers spiritual gifts to the church. The Holy Spirit glorifies neither Himself nor His gifts by ostentatious displays, but He does glorify Christ by implementing His work of redeeming the lost and building up believers in the most holy faith (John 16:13-14; Acts 1:8; 1 Corinthians 12:4-11; 2 Corinthians 3:18).

We believe, in this respect, that God the Holy Spirit is sovereign in the bestowing of all His gifts for the perfecting of the saints today, and that speaking in tongues and the working of sign miracles in the beginning days of the church were for the purpose of pointing to and authenticating the apostles as revealers of divine truth, and were never intended to be characteristic of the lives of believers (1 Corinthians 12:4-11; 13:8-10; 2 Corinthians 12:12; Ephesians 4:7-12; Hebrews 2:1-4).

CULTURAL ENGAGEMENT
We support the work of Christian organizations and institutions that confess the final authority of Scripture and Lordship of Jesus Christ, and are committed to the implementation of the social and cultural implications of God’s commandments for the well-being of man and his environment. We especially support those organizations that condemn the murder of defenseless human beings at the earliest stages of their development and that reject unbiblical definitions of gender, sexuality, and marriage.