WE BELIEVE

We Believe

The sum of all our theological beliefs is Jesus Christ.

Everything we believe - all the details of our doctrine - spring from knowing God through His Son Jesus Christ. He's the reason we exist, the goal we aim for, and the explanation of life!

Our Statement of Faith

1. We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are verbally inspired of God, inerrant in the original writing and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and practice. (II Tim. 3:16-17; II Pet. 1:19-20)

​2. We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. (Deut. 6:4-5; I Cor. 8:6; I John 5:7; Matt. 28:19)

​3. We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit and born of Mary, a virgin, and is true God and true man (Matt. 1:18-20; Luke 1:26-38; John 1:1,2,14,18, 14:7-11, 20:28; Gal. 4:4). We believe in the literal Genesis account of the creation of man in the image of God, 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 sinners in thought, word, and deed. (Gen. 1:26-27; Rom. 5:12 and 3:23) 

​4. We believe in accordance with Scriptures that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who, through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, receive Him as personal Savior and Lord are justified on the grounds of His shed blood and are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God. (I Cor. 15:1-4; 2 Cor. 7:10; Heb. 10:9-12; Eph. 2:8-9; John 1:12-13 and 3:5)

​5. We believe in the eternal security of the believer, and that it is impossible for one born into the family of God ever to be lost. (John 1:12 and 10:27-28)

​6. We believe in the bodily resurrection of our Lord, in His ascension into heaven and in His present role as High Priest and Advocate. (I Cor. 15:1-20; John 20:24-29; Acts 1:10-11; Heb. 1:13, 4:14-16, 7:25; I Tim. 2:5)

​7. We believe in that “blessed hope,” the personal, premillennial, pretribulational and imminent return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, at which time the church will be "gathered together unto Him." (Titus 2:13; Acts 1:10-11; I Thess. 4:13-18)

​8. We believe in the literal fulfillment of the prophecies and promises of the Scripture which foretell and assure the future regeneration and restoration of Israel as a nation. (Ezek. 37:11-14,21-28; Rom. 11:26-27)

​9. 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. (John 5:24-30; Dan. 12:2-3; Rev. 20:4-6,11-15, 21:8; II Thess. 1:7-10; John 14:1-6)

​10. We believe in the local church as the visible reality of the body of Christ that a New Testament church is a local autonomous assembly of born again, baptized believers united in organization to practice New Testament ordinances (believer's baptism and the Lord's Supper), to meet together for worship, prayer, teaching and a united testimony and to actively engage in carrying out the great commission. (Eph. 5:23-32; Matt. 16:18, 28:18-20; I Tim. 3:15; Acts 2:41-47; Rom. 5:3-5; I Cor. 11:23-28).

​11. We believe that we should be separated unto God by being filled with the Holy Spirit, Who indwells each and every believer and Who comforts, teaches, equips and guides all believers in Jesus Christ and His Word. We also believe that we should be personally separated from certain alliances and practices of this sinful world system; and as a church we should be separated from any activity, church, association, fellowship, council, union or covenant of churches where apostasy, liberalism, immorality or any other kind of rejection of Jesus Christ and His Word is tolerated, aided or sanctioned. (I Cor. 6:19,20, 12:4-11; II Cor. 6:14-18; John 14:15-26; Eph. 5:18; 1 John 2:15-17)

Our Baptist Distinctives

The foundational doctrines of the evangelical Christian faith:
Throughout history, those who have been identified as Christians, in the Biblical sense of the word, have had certain beliefs in common. These basic doctrines are fundamental to the Christian faith, and those who deny any of these teachings cannot be identified as true born-again Christians.

THE FOUNDATIONAL DOCTRINES:
1. The Bible as the inerrant Written Revelation of God

2. The Trinity

3. The Deity, Virgin Birth, Sinlessness, Substitutionary Death, Bodily Resurrection, High Priestly Work, and Bodily Return of Jesus Christ

4. Salvation by God's Grace through Repentance for our sins and Faith in Jesus Christ

BAPTIST DISTINCTIVES
Baptist distinctives are those significant principles and doctrines which Baptists hold and have held through the centuries and which, in their entirety, distinguish Baptists from other historic evangelical movements.

The Distinctives:

1. The Supreme and Final Authority of the Bible in ALL Matters of Faith and Practice

2. Soul Liberty

3. The Sovereignty of God

4. A Regenerate, Baptized Church Membership

5. Sovereign, Independent, Organized Local Churches

6. Two Local Church Offices: Pastors and Deacons

7. Two Local Church Ordinances: Believer’s Baptism (by Immersion) and The Lord's Supper

8. Separation of Church and State

9. The Priesthood of all Believers

10. Christ as the Head of the Church
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