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Statement of Faith

We believe:

  • In the word-by-word inspiration, sufficiency and final authority of the Holy Scriptures.
  • In one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
  • In the Lord Jesus Christ as true God and true man; His virgin birth, sinless humanity, vicarious death, bodily resurrection, present advocacy, and His personal, imminent, bodily return for His Church.
  • In the fall of man, resulting in his complete and universal separation from God and his need of salvation.
  • That the Lord Jesus Christ died and shed His blood as a sacrifice for the sins of the whole world.
  • That salvation is a free and everlasting gift of God, entirely apart from works, received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
  • That the Holy Spirit regenerates with divine life and personally indwells the believer upon his faith in Christ for salvation.
  • In the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the unsaved.
  • In the unending life of the saved with the Lord and the unending punish­ment of the unsaved.

We hold and teach the following positions:

  • Believers’ baptism by immersion
  • The pretribulational, premillennial return of Christ for the church
  • The historical-grammatical interpretation of the Bible
  • That a soul once saved can never be lost

We do not practice what are commonly known as the “sign gifts”

We value:

  1. the Word of God as Our Final Authority.
  2. dependence on God evidenced by prayer and living by faith.
  3. willingness to sacrifice for Christ.
  4. a Spirit-controlled life.
  5. Godly relationships and interdependence in ministry.
  6. a sense of urgency in ministry.
  7. effective communication in evangelism and church planting.
  8. the certainty that God desires to use any life.
  9. excellence in what we do.

Learn more about our core values.

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