What We Believe

GOD

• God’s sovereignty rests at the foundation of all true Christian theology. God rules in the universe He created. He is always successful in what He desires to accomplish.
  
  
• God is a Trinity. There is one God in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The unity of God can be understood by reason, but the triunity of God is given by Scriptural revelation and is believed by God-given faith.
  
  
• The purpose of the Bible is to reveal God. Many people have notions of who God is, but only the Bible reveals God as He truly is.

MAN

• Adam (the first man) was created good, but by his fall into sin alienated himself from God. All men, with the exception of Jesus Christ, have fallen in Adam.
  
  
• Man, in his natural state, is a depraved sinner. He has neither the will nor the ability to come to God. However, he is still liable to divine justice for his sin and for his rejection of God.
  
  
• The end of man’s sin, without salvation, is eternal separation from God.

SALVATION

• Salvation is completely by God, based on His grace, and is in no sense by depraved man’s will nor by his works.
  
  Salvation includes:
  
  
• Election by the Father. Before time, God chose certain depraved persons to eternal life in Christ Jesus.
  
  
• Redemption by the Son. Christ, by His life, death, and resurrection, paid in full the sin penalty due the chosen persons (the elect) and insured their regeneration.
  
  
• Regeneration by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit applies the work of the Son to the elect through the new birth at God’s appointed time. Each of the elect receives the new birth sometime between his conception and his physical death. Faith is the gift of God and is a fruit of regeneration.
  
  

THE CHURCH

• The Lord Jesus Christ set up His church during the days of His earthly ministry.
  
  
• The Lord guaranteed perpetuity to His church until His Second Coming.
  
  
• Each local church is autonomous. There is no higher ecclesiastical institution than the local assembly. However true New Testament churches should exercise loving fellowship with each other and should cooperate in the propagation of the gospel.
  
  

THE FUTURE

• The hope of the church is the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
  
  
• The blessed hope of Christ’s return has a sanctifying effect on the present life.
  
  
• The Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ will bring everlasting joy to the blood-bought children of God, and everlasting punishment to the wicked.