STATEMENT OF FAITH
Verbal Inspiration
We believe that every word of the Old and New Testaments, in the original manuscripts, was written by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and that the Bible is consequently wholly without error. We believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, and that it is the only infallible rule of faith and practice. IITim. 3:16,17; II Peter 1 :20,21; Heb. 1 :2; J
ohn 10:35; Eph. 6:17; Isa. 8:20; Psa. 119:105. The Trinity
We believe that God is Triune and that there are three eternal, co-equal divine persons in the Godhead and these three are one God. The Person of Christ
We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ and that He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin. John 1 :1,14; Luke 1 :35; I Tim. 3:16; Col. 2:9. The Holy Spirit
We believe the Holy Spirit is co-equal with the Father and the Son; regenerates the believing sinner; indwells, guides, instructs and empowers the believer for Godly living and service; and comforts the children of God. The Holy Spirit guides and gives power to the church, the body of Christ, to fulfill the Great Commission, and convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. (Acts 5: 1-4, John 14:26; Acts 1 :8). Man
We Believe man was created perfect, but through Adam's disobedience, sin entered into the world and his corruption into all his posterity. God takes sin back to the womb where we were shaped in iniquity and conceived in sin (Psalm 51 :5). Therefore, we are lost apart from Christ. Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. (Genesis Chapters 1-3; John Chapter 3, Romans Chapters 3 and 5). Salvation
We believe that the only way to be saved is by faith in the blood sacrifice, vicarious atonement, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ the Son of God. We believe in the eternal security of the saints. John 3:16; John 14:6; Eph. 2:8,9; Acts 4:12; Acts 16:31; Rom. 8:25,26; John 10:28,29; Heb. 7:25; I John 5:12,13. The Church
We believe that the church, which is the Body of Christ, began with the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; that each one who receives the Lord Jesus Christ, is indwelled by the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:1-4; John 7:39; I Cor. 12:13; Rom. 8:9-15; I John 2:27; I John 4:16. The Lord's Return
We believe that Christ shall at any moment return in the air to rapture the saints, and that a Tribulation of seven years will occur; after which He shall come to the earth with the saints and rule for a thousand years. After this, the wicked dead shall be judged and cast into the Lake of Fire. John 14:3; Acts 1 :11; I Thess. 4:16,17; Dan. 9:27; Jude 14,15; Rev. 20:2-6,15. Satan
We believe that Satan is a person, the author of the fall of mankind and that he shall be eternally punished. Gen. 3:15; Job 1:6,7; Rev. 20:2,10. Marriage
We believe Marriage is not an invention of man. God instituted marriage. According to God's plan, man and woman together form the unit of humanity. A man or a woman alone is only part of an entirety. In Scripture marriage is an institution in society that is of divine origin. It is govern by the laws of God. A marriage may take place in a church building, and it is certainly in order to pray and ask God's blessing on a marriage. But a marriage in and of itself a religious ceremony. We believe one of the passages from the Bible which deals with marriage is Genesis 2:23. Moses records that after God created man, and then created woman and brought her to man, that Adam said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." Then we read, "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh." What can we learn from these verses about what God has said makes a marriage? First we see the reason for marriage. God made man and then he made woman from man. So God made them male and female. Because God made them male and female, God set up marriage. In other words, God set up marriage because he had taken one - Adam, and made two - Adam and Eve. That is the reason for marriage.
