TRUTH HOLD
Confronting The Hard Issues of Today
Boldly Preaching The Gospel
Encouraging & Equipping Christians
Discerning & Holding To Truth of God's Word
Standing For Christ, Standing For Truth
OUR MISSION:
Our mission is to share the truth of God's Word and the Gospel with as many as possible. To encourage and equip those who believe, and to fulfill the Great Commission by showing the truth to
those who are dead in their trespasses. Our mission is to fulfill God's command as Christians to go into all the world and preach the Gospel. (Mark 16:15) We aim to confront all the hardest issues of today Biblically, looking at how Christians should respond to various circumstances in a God-glorifying way, aiming to be as discerning as we can be in all things! WHAT WE BELIEVE:
We believe there is only one true God (the triune God of the Bible - 3 persons; The Father, The Son, The Holy Spirit, each one fully God) equal in every divine perfection and executing distinct yet harmonious offices in the great work of redemption. God is Creator, Sustainer, and Sovereign of the universe, having made all things in six literal days. He is infinite in every excellence, inexpressibly glorious in holiness, and worthy of all possible honour, confidence, and love. We believe He Created the world in 6 literal days and rested on the 7th. There is only ONE God who lives and breathes, and that is the God of the Bible. THE HOLY SCRIPTURES:
We believe the Bible to be God's perfect, inerrant and infallible Word, and that He revealed all necessary for life in those 66 books. We believe all of Scripture was given by inspiration of God, and is complete, fully accurate, the truth, the final Authority, and only rule in all matters of faith and practice. JESUS CHRIST:
We believe that Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, possessing all the essence and attributes of Deity, that He came into this world by miraculous virgin birth, receiving a human body and a real human nature yet unchangeably sinless, both God and man, that He lived a perfect life of righteousness and died an actual substitutionary sacrifice for His elect people, thus accomplishing propitiation, reconciliation, redemption, and atonement for them. Jesus rose bodily, visibly, and victoriously on the third day attesting to God’s acceptance of His sacrifice, He ascended into heaven and is enthroned in glory acting as our Intercessor, Great High Priest, and Advocate before the Father, and according to His promise He is coming again, personally and visibly to raise the dead, both righteous and unrighteous, and to judge all men by the eternal punishment of unbelievers and the everlasting
blessedness of the righteous. THE HOLY SPIRIT:
We believe in the personality and absolute Deity of the Holy Spirit. His relation to the unbelieving world is to restrain evil and to convict of sin, righteousness, and judgement. His work among believers is to regenerate, seal, indwell, comfort, pray, endue, teach, guide, and sanctify. MAN:
We believe that God made our first father Adam by direct creation (not by evolution) in the image of God, perfectly holy and upright, that he sinned and brought upon himself and all his offspring, guilt, condemnation, and death, incurring the wrath of God, thus fallen man is dead in trespasses and in sin, totally unable to keep God’s laws, to understand the Gospel, to repent of sin or trust in Christ apart from divine grace. SALVATION:
We believe that the salvation of man is divinely initiated and accomplished by the sovereign grace of God, wholly apart from the worth or works of man. It is the urgent duty of all sinners to repent and believe the Gospel and nothing prevents their salvation but their own inherent depravity and willful unbelief. However only those called by grace do believe in Christ as their only and all-sufficient Saviour and Lord, and by the instrument of faith are justified, their sins totally pardoned and the righteousness of Christ imputed to them, solely on the merits and finished work of Christ on the cross. Salvation is the free gift of God and is forever. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9)
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. (Romans 1:16)
SANCTIFICATION:
We believe that the progressive sanctification of the believer is a necessary fruit of true saving faith and distinguishes genuine faith from false or superficial profession. We are to grow in grace and in holiness and in the knowledge of God’s Word and will, and although our daily walk cannot alter our eternal destiny, it does affect our communion with God, the enjoyment of our salvation, and our usefulness to the church and to the lost. Through the Gospel and our union with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection, and the indwelling Spirit, we have all the means necessary for holy living, crucifying the flesh, and the putting on of Christ. THE LOCAL CHURCH:
We believe that the local church is a company of believers called together for the worship of God, the observance of the ordinances of believer’s baptism and the Lord’s Supper, the preaching of the Word, fellowship, prayer, and the evangelization of the lost. We acknowledge no head but Christ and no authority but His Word. The local church is autonomous, free from outside ecclesiastical control, and the government is vested in the body of believers who compose it. Its Scriptural officers are pastors or elders or bishops and deacons.
