STATEMENT OF FAITH
We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as verbally inspired of God, and inerrant in the original writings, and that they have been divinely preserved and handed down to this generation as found in the Reformation Textus Receptus in the Greek, and the Authorized Version of 1611, in the English as well as other languages, and are of supreme and final authority in faith and life. We believe the King James Bible is inspired. II Timothy 3:16.
We believe that the Genesis account of Creation is to be accepted literally, not allegorically or figuratively; that man was created directly in the image of God and was not a matter of evolution or evolutionary changes of species; that all animal and vegetable life was made directly, and as God ordained, should bring forth only “after their kind.”
We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Ghost, born of Mary, a virgin, and is true God and true man.
We believe that man was created in God’s own image, that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death, but also spiritual death, which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, and are eternally lost without the quickening power of the Holy Ghost to bring him to the knowledge of his ruined condition and a saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood.
We believe in the “Eternal Security” of the believer; that it is impossible for one born into the family of God ever to be lost.
We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into heaven, and in His present life there as High Priest and Advocate.
We believe that God’s authority in this world is in the local church body by the Holy Ghost, and that God does not put His stamp of approval on anything or anyone outside this authority, which is His church.
We believe that a scriptural church is a visible assembly of baptized believers, covenanted together under New Testament law for the purpose of carrying out the Great Commission, with an unbroken history from the personal ministry of Jesus Christ on earth to this present day.
We believe that a New Testament church should be an independent, fundamental, Bible-believing, Bible-preaching, Bible-living Baptist church. Independent in that it is self-governing, not ruled by any unscriptural denominational hierarchy. Fundamental in adhering to the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. Bible-believing, Bible-preaching, and Bible-living meaning that all 66 Books, from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21, are the very words of God, every jot and every tittle, and are profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.
We believe in the actual fulfillment of the prophecies and promises of the Scriptures which foretell and assure the future regeneration and restoration of Israel as a nation.
We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Ghost and thereby are the children of God.
We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting punishment of the lost.
We believe that our Lord will return in the Rapture for all those washed in His shed blood, and that we shall ever be with Him.
We believe that our Lord Jesus Christ will set up here on this earth a rule of peace for 1000 years (Pre-millennium) following the Great Tribulation.
We believe that scriptural baptism is by immersion, administered by a New Testament church, to those only who are born again, who have accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour. There is no evidence of infant baptism in the Scriptures, nor is there evidence of pouring or sprinkling as the mode for baptizing. Baptism has no saving grace whatsoever, but is a picture of our belief in the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord. It is also a picture of what Christ has done in us: we die to old self, our sins are buried and out of God’s sight forever, and we rise to a new life with Christ. Baptism is also the means to which a believer is united with His New Testament Church.
We believe that the Lord’s Supper is a memorial ordinance, restricted to faithful church members. We practice closed communion.
We believe that God’s people should be a separated people, following the commandment of our Lord in II Corinthians 6:14-7:1. This does not mean an “holier than thou” attitude, but rather, this one thing we seek to do: lay aside every weight and sin that doth so easily beset us, and run with patience the race that is set before us (Hebrews 12:1), not as though we had already attained, either were already perfect, but we press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus (Philippians 3:12-21).
We believe that the modern charismatic movement is not of God and therefore we are not in anyway connected with that movement; neither are we in any way associated with the National Council of Churches, the World Council of Churches, the Roman Catholic Church, or any other ecumenical movement; nor do we associate with churches of like faith who are associated with aforementioned movements. We oppose modernism, liberalism, and formalism.
We believe that civil government is of divine appointment, for the interests, order and good of human society; and that magistrates are to be prayed for, conscientiously honoured and obeyed; except only in things opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the only Lord of the conscience and the Prince of the kings of the earth; that church and state should be separated in that: the state owing the church protection and full freedom; no ecclesiastical group or denomination should be preferred above another by the state; the state should not impose taxes for the support of any form of religion, nor prohibit the worship of Almighty God in any manner; a free church in a free state is the Christian ideal. The church should not resort to the civil power to carry on its work. The Gospel of Christ contemplates spiritual means alone for the pursuit of its ends.