Statement of Faith

There is one God, infinitely perfect, existing eternally in 3 persons: Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Each is equal in Divine perfection and executing distinctly harmonious offices in the great work of redemption. (Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 5:48; 28:19; Exodus 20:2; I Corinthians 8:6; Revelation 4:11)
Jesus Christ is true God, true man. He was conceived by the Holy spirit, born of the virgin Mary. He died upon the cross, the just for the unjust, as a substitutional sacrifice; all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood. He arose bodily from the dead, according to the Scriptures. He is now at the right hand of the Majesty on High, as our great High Priest. He will come again to establish His kingdom of righteousness and peace. (Philippians 2:6-11; Luke 1:36-38; I Peter 3:18; Hebrews 2:9; Acts 2:23, 24; Matthew 26:24)
The Holy Spirit is a Divine person, equal with God the Father and God the Son, and of the same nature. He was active in creation; in relation to the unbelieving world He restains the evil one until God's purpose is fulfilled. He convicts of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment; He bears witness to the truth of the Gospel in preaching and testimony; He is the agent of the new birth; He seals, endues, teaches, witnesses, santifies, and keeps the believer. The Holy Spirit gives spiritual gifts to believers in this dipensation for the purpose of edifying the body of Christ, but that some gifts, bestowed upon the early church, were temporary, given to serve the laying of the foundation of the church prior to the completion and collection of the New Testament canon. These gifts ceased in conjunction with the completion of the New Testament. (John 14:16, 17; Matthew 28:19; Hebrews 9:4; Luke 1:35; Genesis 1:1-3; John 16: 8-11; Acts 5:30-32; John 3:56; Ephesians 1:13, 14; Mark 1:8; John 1:33; Acts 11:16; Luke 24:49; Romans 8:14, 16, 26, 27; 15:19; Hebrews 2:4; I Corinthians 13:8-13; Epesians 2:20; 3:2-5)
The Old and New Testaments, inerrant, infallible as origially given, were verbally inspired by God. They are the complete revelation of His will for the salvation of man. They constitute the Divine and only rule of Chrisitan faith and practice. (II Peter 1:20; II Timothy 3:15-16; Jude 3) We practice the literal, grammatical, historical, dispensational interpretation of scripture. (John 7:17; 16:12-15; I Corinthians 2:7-15; I John 2:20)
Man was originally created in the image and likeness of God. He fell, through disobedience, incurring both physical and spiritual death. All men are born with a sinful nature and are separated from the life of God, and can only be saved through the atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ. The prospect of the impenitent and unbelieving person is existence forever in conscious torment; that of the believer in Christ, everlasting joy and bliss. (Genesis 1:27; Romans 3:25; I Corinthians 15:20-23; Revelation 21:8; 21:1-4) The universal disorder is sin, that sin is any lack of conformity to the moral law of God, wither in act, disposition, or state; (Psalm 51:5; Matthew 5:22, 28; Romans 3:19, 23; 14:23; James 4:17; I John 3:4) that it results from man's choice of self, instead of God, as his chief object of affection and supreme end of being; (Genesis 3:1-6; I John 2:15-17) and that all men, already guilty of original sin, upon reaching moral consciousness, commit actual sins individually. (Romans 3:10-12, 19, 23; I John 1:8)
Salvation has been provided through Jesus Christ alone, for all men, and those who repent and believe in Him are born again of the Holy Spirit, receive the gift of eternal life, and become the children of God. (Titus 3:4-7; John 3:16-18; John 14:6; Acts 16:31) Repentance is a change of mind and purpose toward God and prompted by the Holy Spirit; that it is characterized by Godly sorrow for sin as offensive to God and ruinous to the soul; and that true repentance is inseparably related to true faith. (Luke 13:1-3; 15:7; Acts 8:22, Romans 2:4, II Corinthians 7:10, Acts 20:21) For all those who are truly born again, they are kept by God the Father for Jesus Christ. (Phillipians 1:6, John 10:28, 29; Romans 8:35-39; Jude1)
It is the will of God that each believer should be filled with the holy Spirit and be sanctified wholly, being separated from sin and the world and fully dedicated to the will of God, thereby receiving the power for holy living and effectual service. This is both a crisis and a progressive experience, wrought in the life of the believer, subsequent to conversion. (I Thessalonians 5:23; Romans 6:1-4) It is God's will that believers be separate entirely from worldliness and ecclesiastical apostasy and be separated unto God. (II Corinthians 6:14-7:1; I Thessalonians 1:9, 10; I Timothy 6:3-5; Romans 16:17; II John
The church consists of all those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, are redeemed through His blood, and are born again of the Spirit. Christ is the head of the body, the church, which has been commissioned by Him to go into all the world as a witness, preaching the Gospel to all nations. The local church is a body of believers in Christ who are all joined together in the worship of God, for edification through the Word of God, prayer, fellowship, the proclamation of the Gospel, and the observances of the ordinances of believer's baptism, by immersion, and the Lord's supper. (Ephesians 1:22, 23; Mathew 28:19, 20; Acts 2:41-47)
There will be a bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust; the former to eternal life, the latter unto judgment. I Corinthians 15:20-23; John 5:28, 29; Revelation 20:14, 15,; John 8:21; Romans 6:17, 18; I John 5:19; Romans 6:23; 7:6; Luke 16:25: Matthew 25:34-41)>
The return of Christ will be personal, imminent, pre-tribulational. He, Himself, will return for His church, and at that moment the dead in Christ will be raised in glorified bodies, and the living in Christ shall be given glorified bodies without tasting death, and all shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the air before the seventieth week of Daniel.
(I Thessalonians 4:13-18; I Corinthians 15:42-44, 51-54; Philippians 3:20, 21; Revelation 3:10) This is the believer's hope and is a vital truth that is incentive for holy living. (Hebrews 10:37; Luke 21:27; Titus 2:11-14) The great tribulation, which follows the rapture of the church, will be culminated by the revelation of Christ in power and great glory, to sit upon the throne of David to establish the millennial reign. (Daniel 9:25-27; Matthew 24:29-31; Luke 1:30-33; Isaiah 9:6, 7; Acts 2:29, 30; Revelation 20:1-4, 6)
Israel was sovereignly chosen by God as His covenant people; that Israel is now dispersed because of disobedience and rejection of Christ; that she will be re-gathered in the Holy Land and, after the completion of the church, will be saved as a nation at the second advent of Christ. (Genesis 13:14-17; Romans 11:1-32; Ezekiel 37).

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