ABOUT US

The Bible is God’s Word to all people. The Holy Spirit inspired human authors to write the books of the Bible. God Himself chose every word of Scripture. The Bible, consisting of the Old and New Testaments, is the verbally inspired word of God and is both infallible and inerrant in the original writings. It is completely sufficient for spiritual growth, totally authoritative in every issue it communicates, and always relevant to life. We can trust it for all matters in this life and the next.

2 Timothy 3:16, 17; 2 Peter 1:20, 21; Matthew 5:18; Mark 13:31; John 8:31, 32; John 16:12, 13; John 20:31; Acts 20:32

Scripture teaches that God created everything out of nothing. God has existed in relationship with Himself for all eternity. We believe that there is one living and true God, eternally existing in three persons; and that these are equal in every divine perfection. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit have distinct but harmonious roles in creation, providence and redemption.

Genesis 1:1, 26; John 1:1, 3; Matthew 28:19; John 4:24; Romans 1:19,20; 2 Corinthians 13:14; Ephesians 4:5, 6

God the Father is great: He is all-powerful, all-knowing, unchanging, and holy. It is in Him that we live, move and exist. God is good. He is our Father. He is loving, compassionate, and faithful to His people and His promises. We believe in God the Father, an infinite, personal spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, power

and love. We believe that He perfectly foreknows all that shall come to pass, that He concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of men, that He hears and answers prayer, and that He saves from sin and death all who come to Him through faith in Jesus.

Luke 10:21,22; Matthew 23:9; John 3:16; 6:27; Romans 1:7; I Timothy 1:1,2; 2:5,6; I Peter 1:3; Revelation 1:6

Jesus Christ lived on this earth and was completely human but at the same time completely God. He is the only plan for bringing people who are enemies of God back into a right relationship with God. He lived a perfect life so that He could be a substitution for us in satisfying God’s demands for perfection. He defeated death in His resurrection so that we could have life. He is coming again. The Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man without ceasing to be God, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. This was so that He might reveal God and redeem sinful man. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through His death on the cross as a representative, vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice and that our justification is made sure by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended into heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God where, as our High Priest, He fulfills this ministry as Advocate and Intercessor. We believe Jesus is coming again to judge the living and the dead.

Isaiah 7:14; 53; Matthew 1:18-23; 3:17; 8:29; 14:33; 16:16; 28:5-6; Luke 22:70; 24:46- 47; John 1:1, 14; 10:30; 11:25-27; 17:1-5; Acts 1:9, 10; 2:22-24; 7:55-56; Romans 1:3- 4; 3:23-26; 8:1-3; 8:24; 10:4; 1 Corinthians 8:6; 2 Corinthians 5:19-21; Galatians 4:4- 5; Ephesians 1:7; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 1:15; 2:9; 1 Timothy 2:5-6; 3:16; 1 Peter 1:3-5; 2:24; Ephesians 1:7; Hebrews 7:25

We believe that the Holy Spirit is a full and equal member of the Trinity. He convicts the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment in order to show people in the world that they need Jesus. He is the Supernatural Agent in regeneration, making believers new creations in Christ and bringing them into God’s family as His children. In so doing, He indwells, protects, and seals them unto the day of redemption at the end of time. The Holy Spirit is an abiding Helper, Teacher and Guide. He lives inside every Christian from the moment they place their faith in Jesus. He is the believer’s source of power for life, ministry and growth. To tap into that power, believers must continually yield their lives to Him in faith.

John 14:16; 15:26 ,27; John 16:9-14; Romans 8:9; I Corinthians 3:16; 6:19; Galatians 5:22-26; Ephesians 1:13-14, 5:18

We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that through Adam’s sin the race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God. Man is totally depraved and of himself utterly unable to remedy his lost condition.         All human beings are born with a sinful nature and are sinners by choice. They are justly therefore under condemnation. This judgment includes physical, spiritual and eternal death. We believe that those who repent, forsake sin and trust Jesus as Savior are delivered from condemnation and receive

eternal life. They are also regenerated by the Holy Spirit and become new creatures in Christ upon salvation.

Genesis. 1:26; 5:2; Genesis 3; Genesis 2:17; 3:19; Psalm 51:7; Proverbs 28:13; Ecclesiastes 2:11; Jeremiah 17:9; John 1:14; 3:14-16; 5:24; 5:30; 7:13; 8:12; 10:26; Romans 8:1; 9:22; 2 Corinthians 5:17

The blood of Jesus Christ, shed on the cross, provides the only way of salvation through the forgiveness of sin. Our disobedient nature and actions have eternally separated us from our Creator. No matter how hard we try, we can never earn our way back into God’s presence. Our only hope is to trust Jesus as God’s provision for our disobedience. Salvation is a gift from God, and it cannot be earned through our own efforts. It is received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Good works in no way accomplish or aid in salvation. Salvation is accomplished as man is saved through faith in Jesus. Saving faith is a confidence in the finished, redeeming work of Jesus Christ through His perfect life, atoning death, and victorious resurrection. Salvation is through faith alone, by grace alone, in Christ alone according to Scripture alone, for the glory of God alone. Saving faith entails turning from sin and self-effort (repentance) and trusting Christ as Lord and Savior (faith). Placing one’s faith in Jesus, brings a person into God’s family as His child and thus securing the eternal and abundant life Jesus promises all believers. A believer’s salvation is through the most trustworthy being in the universe – Jesus Christ! A Christian didn’t do anything to earn salvation, and therefore can’t do anything to lose it. Salvation is maintained by God’s trustworthiness and love in and through Jesus Christ. A believer’s life should reflect God’s salvation but does not in any way secure it.

Genesis 3:15; Exodus 3:14-17; 6:2-8; Matthew 1:21; 4:17; 16:21-26; 27:22-28:6; Luke 1:68-69; 2:28-32; John 1:11-14,29; 3:3-21,36; 5:24; 10:9,28-29; 15:1-16; 17:17; Acts 2:21; 4:12; 15:11; 16:30-31; 17:30-31; 20:32; Romans 1:16-18; 2:4; 3:23-25; 4:3ff.; 5:8- 10; 6:1-23; 8:1-18,29-39; 10:9-10,13; 13:11-14; 1 Corinthians 1:18,30; 6:19-20; 15:10; 2 Corinthians 5:17-20; Galatians 2:20.

Election is the gracious purpose of God, according to which He foreknows, predestines, calls, regenerates, justifies, sanctifies, and glorifies sinners. It is consistent with the free agency of man. It is the glorious display of God’s sovereign goodness and is infinitely wise, holy, and unchangeable. We believe that all the redeemed, once saved, are kept by Godʼs power and are thus secure in Christ forever. We believe that from all eternity God determined in grace to save a great multitude of guilty sinners from every tribe, language, people and nation. To this end, He foreknew them and chose them. We believe that God justifies and sanctifies those who by grace have faith in Jesus, and that he will one day glorify them—all to the praise of His glorious grace. In love God commands and implores all people to repent and believe, having set His saving love on those whom He has chosen and having ordained to come to faith in Jesus as their Redeemer.

Genesis 12:1-3; Exodus 19:5-8; 1 Samuel 8:4-7,19-22; Isaiah 5:1-7; Jeremiah 31:31ff.; Jonah 2:6-9; Matthew 16:18-19; 21:28-45; 24:22,31; 25:34; Luke 1:68-79; 2:29-32; 19:41-44; 24:44-48; John 1:12-14; 3:16; 5:24; 6:44-45,65; 10:27-29; 15:16; 17:6,12,17-18; Acts 20:32; Romans 5:9-10; 8:28-39; 10:12-15; 11:5-7, 26-36.

We believe that each believer is baptized and indwelled with the Holy Spirit at conversion. We believe that believers are given all that is needed for life and godliness through the presence of the Holy Spirit in their lives. The Holy Spirit sanctifies believers and grows them to maturity in Christ. We believe that it is the privilege and responsibility of believers to minister and serve according to the gifts and grace of God that is given to them. All believers are to share their faith, make disciples, and partner with other believers for the fulfillment of the Great Commission. Christians are commanded in Scripture to fully follow Jesus and to live the Christian life in the context of the local church. As the Trinity lives in community, believers are called to live life in the community of the Church.

Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Romans 12:1–8; 1 Corinthians 12:13; 1 Corinthians 13; 2 Corinthians 5:17-20; Ephesians 1:13-14; Ephesians 4:11-13; 1 Peter 4:10–11; 2 Peter 1:3-4

The church is the body of Christ in the world today. She is the hands and feet of Jesus, to go and to do His work in the world. We believe in the universal church,

a living spiritual body of which Christ is the head and all regenerated persons are members. The universal church is made up of all believers in all places and from all times. The Bible tells us the local church is a body of baptized believers who come together for worship, fellowship, discipleship, ministry, and mission. Local churches are to partner together in love and unity, intent on the ultimate purpose of glorifying God by loving Him and by making Him known to the world.

Matthew 16:15-19; 18:15-20; Acts 2:41-42,47; 5:11-14; 6:3-6; 13:1-3; 14:23,27; 15:1-30; 16:5; 20:28; Romans 1:7; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 3:16; 5:4-5; 7:17; 9:13-14; 12; Ephesians 1:22-23; 2:19-22; 3:8-11,21; 5:22-32; Philippians 1:1; Colossians 1:18

God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appropriate end.          He will do this through Jesus. According to His promise, Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth, the dead will be raised and Christ will judge all men in righteousness. We believe in the personal and visible return of the Lord Jesus Christ to earth and the building of His kingdom. Man was created to exist forever. He will either exist eternally separated from God because of sin in hell or in heaven with God through forgiveness and salvation.

Heaven and hell are places of eternal existence. What one decides about Jesus in this life will determine where that person will spend eternity. If one rejects Him, eternal separation from God in Hell results. When a person receives Jesus by faith, eternity with God in heaven is the gift one receives.

Matthew 16:27; 18:8-9; 19:28; 24:27,30,36,44; 25:31-46; 26:64; Mark 8:38; 9:43-48; Luke 12:40,48; 16:19-26; 17:22-37; 21:27-28; John 14:1-3; Acts 1:11; 17:31; Romans 14:10; 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18; 5:1ff; 2 Thessalonians 1:7ff; 2; 1 Timothy 6:14; 2 Timothy 4:1,8; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 9:27-28; James 5:8; 2 Peter 3:7ff; 1 John 2:28; 3:2; Jude 14; Revelation 1:18; 3:11; 20-22