Our Beliefs

We believe and teach that Jesus Christ is the second Person of the Trinity, yet shares equally in all the attributes of deity with the Father and the Holy Spirit.  We teach and believe in His virgin birth, in His incarnation, in His perfect and sinless humanity, in His substitutionary, satisfactory, propitiatory, atoning death on Calvary, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, in His present intercessory ministry, and in His personal return for the Church. (John 10:30; Isaiah 7:14; John 1:1, 14; Romans 3:24; Romans 5:8; 1 Corinthians 15:20; Acts 1:9)

We believe and teach that man was a direct creation of God, made in His image and likeness; that by personal disobedience to the revealed will of God, man became a sinful creature, the father of a fallen race, which is universally sinful in both nature and practice, thus alienated from the life and family of God, under the righteous judgment and wrath of God, and has within himself no possible means of salvation. (Genesis 1:27; 3:6; Psalm 51:5; Romans 3:23; 5:12, 19; Galatians 3:11)

We believe and teach in salvation by grace totally apart from any human merit.  Salvation is a free gift of God. Salvation is bestowed by a gracious God upon unworthy man conditioned solely upon personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His finished work on Calvary.  (Ephesians 2:8, 9; John 3:16; Titus 3:5, 6)

Sanctification is the ongoing process of yielding to God’s Word and His Spirit in order to complete the development of Christ’s character in us. We believe and teach that separation from sin is clearly called for throughout the Old and New Testaments.  From a deep gratitude for Christ’s mercy to us, we should live in such a manner as to demonstrate our love to God and so as not to bring reproach upon our Lord and Savior.  God commands us to separate ourselves from worldly and sinful practices and continually pursue a life of obedience, righteous and holiness.  (Romans 12:1, 2; 1 John 2:15-17; 2 Corinthians 6:14-17; Titus 2:11-12; 1 Peter 1:13-16)

We believe and teach that all who that place their faith in Jesus Christ are immediately placed by the Holy Spirit into one united spiritual body, the church, the bride of Christ, of which Christ is the head.  The church began at Pentecost and is made up of all born again believers in this present age, being completed at the coming of Christ for His bride at the rapture.  (1 Corinthians 12:12, 13; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 5:23, 32; Colossians 1:18; Acts 2:1, 21, 38-47; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)

We believe and teach in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life and the unsaved to judgment and eternal punishment. (Matthew 25:46; John 5:28, 29; 11:25-26; Revelation 20:5-6, 12-13)

The spirit of the redeemed at death go immediately to be with the Lord, where in a conscious state they await the first resurrection when the spirit and body shall be reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord. (Luke 23:42; 2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23, 3:21; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17; Revelation 20:4-6)

The spirits of the unsaved at death remain in conscious punishment and torment until the second resurrection, when with bodies united they shall appear at the Great White Throne Judgment, and shall be cast into the Lake of Fire, not to be annihilated, but to suffer everlasting conscious punishment and torment. (Matthew 25:41-46; Mark 9:43-48; Luke 16:19-26; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9; Jude 6-7; Revelation 20:11-15)

We believe and teach in the “blessed hope”, the personal, imminent return of Christ Who will rapture His Church prior to the seven-year Tribulation period. At the end of the Tribulation, Christ will personally and visibly return with His saints to establish His earthly kingdom. (1 Thessalonians 1:10; 4:13-18; Titus 2:13; Revelation 3:10; 19:11-16; 20:1-6)