These are part of our core beliefs in accordance with Scripture.
The Word of God
We accept fully the writings of the Old and New Testaments as the divinely inspired Word of God. (Prov. 30:5, Heb. 4:12, John 1:1;14, 2 Tim. 3:16-17) The King James Version is our one and only infallible and authoritative rule of faith and practice.
The Godhead
We believe there is one God eternally existent in three persons: God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (1 John 5:7, 2 Cor. 13:14, Mat. 3:16-17)
We believe in the Deity of Christ, His virgin birth, His shed blood for remission of sin, His bodily resurrection, his ascension into heaven there to be our Intercessor. (Col. 2:9, John 1:14, Isa, 7:14, Mat. 26:28, 1 Cor. 15:20, Acts 1:9-11, Heb. 7:25)
We believe that the Holy Spirit convicts of sin, makes believers children of God through the new birth and the baptism into the mystical Body of Christ, assuring them of heaven, and by His indwelling enables Christians to live a Godly life. (John 16:8-9, 1 Cor. 12:13, Eph. 1:14)
Depravity of Man
We believe that all men are by nature and choice sinful and lost and have within themselves no possible means of salvation without Christ. (Eph. 2:1-3, Rom. 3:23, Rom. 5:12)
Salvation
We believe in Salvation by Grace through Faith, that Salvation is the free gift of God, not by any virtue or works of man, but received only by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; and all true believers possess the gift of eternal life, a perfect righteousness, son-ship in the family of God, and the divine guarantee that they shall never perish. (Eph. 2:8-9, Gal. 2:16, Rom. 4:5, Rom. 5:1, John 3:16)
The Adversary
We believe in the existence of Satan, the deceiver and god of this present world, that he was defeated and judged at the cross, and therefore his final doom to the lake of fire is certain. (1 Peter 5:8, Rev. 20:10)
The Rapture
We believe in the Second Coming of Christ; that His return from heaven will be personal, visible and glorious, the time being unrevealed, but imminent; that when He comes He will first by resurrection of the dead and the translation of the living remove from earth His waiting Church; then pour out the righteous judgments of God upon the unbelieving world, afterwards descend with His church and establish His glorious and literal kingdom over all the nations for a thousand years.
We believe to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. That those that are unsaved at death descend immediately into Hell until the Great White Throne judgement which time their bodies shall be raised from the grave, judged, and cast into the lake of fire for all eternity. (1 Thes. 4:16-17, Rev. 13:5, Mat. 24:21, Rev. 20:1-15).
We believe in the priesthood of all believers, that Christ is our Great High Priest, and through Him every born-again person has access into God’s presence without the need of a human priest; that the believer has the privilege and responsibility to personally study and interpret the Scriptures guided by the Holy Spirit to grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord. (Heb. 4:16, 1 Pet. 3:9, 2 Pet. 3:18)
The Church
We believe that the church is God’s instrument and representative that He is working in and through to fulfill His will here on earth. The church is an organized body of born again baptized believers practicing scriptural ordinances and actively engaged in fulfilling the Great Commission. We believe the two Scriptural Ordinances given to the local New Testament church are Baptism by Immersion of believers only, and the Lord’s Supper to be partaken of by obedient Christians. (Mat. 28:19-20, 1 Tim. 3:15, Col. 1:18, Mat. 16:18, 1 Cor. 11:24-26, Mat. 28:19, Rom. 6:3-5)
Israel
We believe that God is not done with Israel and after the rapture, God will start dealing with them again in the seven year tribulation that will ultimately result in them accepting Him as their Messiah when God returns to earth to establish His earthly reign. (Rom. 11, Jer. 30:7, Zech. 14:4).