Believe Statement:

1.The Trinity

We believe that there is only one true and living God, eternally existent in three distinct persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

a.The Creator and Creation

We believe that God alone is Creator and that human beings have been formed in the image of their Creator.

b.The Deity of Christ

We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ. We believe in the incarnation of Christ; in His virgin birth; that His miracles literally took place; that He lived a sinless life; that He is the only mediator between God and human beings; that He is the believer's high priest and intercessor; that it is only through Jesus Christ that we can reach God; and that He alone is Savior and Lord.

c.The Holy Spirit

We believe in the personality and deity of the Holy Spirit; that He baptizes all believers into the Body of Christ at the time of their regeneration; and that He indwells all believers. We believe that the Holy Spirit calls men and women to the Savior; that He gives assurance to believers of their adoption into God's family; that He alone sovereignly bestows spiritual gifts; that He empowers believers for service; that He guides, illumines and gives understanding to believers; and that He joins the believer in intercessory prayer.

2.The Bible

We believe that the Bible is the divinely inspired Word of God, and is entirely trustworthy and that its message conveys the true knowledge of God. The Bible is the true center of Christian fellowship. Prayerful dependence upon God's Holy Spirit helps us to understand the Bible.

3.The Substitutionary Death and Blood Atonement

We believe in the substitutionary death and blood atonement of Jesus Christ to pay for the full penalty of sin; that the sacrifice of Jesus Christ was once for all time; that through His sacrifice God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

4.Bodily Resurrection

We believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

5.The Sinful Condition

We believe that all people have sinned and are in need of salvation.

6.The New Birth

We believe that salvation is by the grace of God for all who personally receive Jesus Christ into their life as Lord and Savior. Upon accepting Jesus, the believer is given a new nature. This is called the "New Birth" or "being born-again."

7.The Return of Jesus Christ

We believe in the imminent return of Jesus Christ for his own.

8.The Future of All People

We believe in the resurrection of the saved and the lost; the saved to eternal life with God, and the lost to eternal separation from the presence of God; that there is a literal heaven and a literal hell.

9.The Devil and His Own

We believe in the reality and personality of Satan; the reality of a host of unseen spirit beings in subjection and allegiance to him; that believers are to actively resist the devil and his host.

10.The Church

We believe that Jesus Christ alone is the head of the Church; that the Church is built upon Christ; that local churches are companies of born-again believers who have joined themselves together in common shared biblical faith, doctrine, fellowship, practices and purposes; that local churches are fully autonomous having called-out ministers to equip, instruct, preach, teach, edify and encourage; that thanksgiving, praise, worship and prayer are to focus on God.

11.Believer's Baptism

We believe that water baptism is an outward symbol that the individual has decided to follow Jesus in His death, burial and resurrection through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. We do this in obedience to the Great Commission given by our Lord Jesus.

12.Communion

We believe in partaking of the bread and cup in accordance with our Lord's command regularly in remembrance of him; and that Communion is open to all who personally know Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.

13.The Priesthood of All Believers

We believe in the Priesthood of all Believers, and that all believers are called by God into body-life ministry within the local church.