THE TRUE GOD
God is a Spirit, infinitely holy,
omniscient, omnipresent, immutable, and the Creator of the universe.
God is a Trinity - one God in three equal Persons - God the Father,
God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.
(Matt. 18:19; John 4:24; Mark 12:30; John 10:30)
THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST
The Lord Jesus Christ is Deity, the
Second Person of the Trinity. He came to earth to seek and to save the
lost. He died on the cross as our Substitute, bearing our sins and
suffering the judgment we deserve as sinners. He rose bodily from the
dead on the third day, and ascended to Heaven forty days later. He is
presently at the right hand of God the Father interceding for His
saints. He was virgin born. (Luke 23:33;
24:5-6; Matt. 1:18-25; Luke 1:26-80; 2:7)
THE HOLY SPIRIT
The Holy Spirit is Deity, the third
Person of the Trinity. He convicts of sin, regenerates, endues
Christians with power to be witnesses, seals believers in Christ,
guides Christians etc. (John 1:2; Eph.
1:13-14; Gal. 2:20; 1 John 3:2)
MAN
Man is born a sinner and can do
nothing to merit anything from God. Man deserves one thing and that is
to go to Hell forever for the judgment of his sin.
(Isa. 45:22)
SALVATION
Man's only hope is to be saved from
his sin. The Lord Jesus Christ came to seek and to save man from his
sin. Salvation is available only as a free gift through the shed blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Salvation is received by grace through
faith, apart from good works. (Isa. 55:1;
Rom. 16:25,26; John 5:40; John 3:19)
ETERNAL SECURITY
We believe that once a person is
saved, he is saved forever, as the Bible says he has eternal life.
Nothing can cancel the fact that a person is saved. Only those who are
genuinely saved have this security. Saved people are subject to the
discipline of God through chastisement.
(John 3:14-16; 6:37-40; 10:27-30; Rom. 8:1,38,39; I Cor. 1:4-8; I Pet.
1:5)
CREATION
We believe that the Genesis record of
creation is literal, and not allegorical or figurative. God personally
created the heaven and the earth in six literal days and miraculously
brought forth all original matter out of nothing.
(Gen. 1:1; Jn. 1:1-3, 14; Heb. 11:3; Gen. 1:21,
24-27; Gen. 2:7; Col. 1:16.)
SATAN
Satan is the arch-enemy of God and of
God's people. As the father of lies, he is the author of modernism,
the ecumenical movement, the cults, the new age movement, and other
fabrications of the truth of the Word of God.
(Gen. 3:1-6; Job 1:6,7; Isaiah 14:12-15; Matt.
4:2-11; Rev. 20:1-10)
THE CHURCH
The church is a called out assembly of
baptized believers who are covenanted together to obey the great
commission by witnessing to the lost, baptizing the converts and
training them in the Word of God to witness to others.
(Matt. 16:18; 28:18-20; Acts 2:41-42, 47; 20:28)
THE ORDINANCES
God has given two ordinances to His local
churches. Only a Scriptural New Testament Church has the authority to
administer the ordinances.
THE GRACE OF
GIVING
We believe that God's method of financing
His earthly work of spreading the Gospel to all nations is by the
tithes and offerings of His people. Everyone is accountable to God for
one-tenth of his income. (1 Cor. 16:1,2;
Heb. 7:2,4; Lev. 27:30; Mal. 3:10)
CHURCH AND STATE
We believe that every human being has
direct relations with God, and is responsible to God alone in all
matters of faith; that each church is independent and autonomous, and
must be free from any interference by any ecclesiastical or political
authority; that, therefore, the church and state must be kept separate
as having different functions, each fulfilling its duties under the
authority of God's Word.
CHRISTIAN LIVING
We believe that every saved person should
manifest Christ in his life through a consistent walk, fully and
constantly yielding his members to the indwelling Holy Spirit, so that
he may always in life and word show forth the praises of Him who
called him out of darkness into His marvelous light. We believe in a
separated life for all believers as set forth in 2 Cor. 6:14-7:1,
including separation from worldly alliances, pleasures, methods of
work, worldly societies, etc.
HEAVEN AND HELL
All saved people will spend eternity with
Jesus in Heaven. All lost people will spend eternity in the lake of
(literal) fire, called Hell. (1 Cor.
15:35-58; Rev. 20:11-15)
LAST THINGS
We believe in the personal, imminient,
pre-tribulational, pre-millenial return of the Lord Jesus Christ to
catch the church up to Himself(rapture). We believe that the church
will stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ in heaven where the
individual Christian's works and motives for service will be tested by
fire for reward or loss. Simultaneously, those yet on earth will be
undergoing the seven years of Tribulation. Christ will return at the
end of the Tribulation to judge the nations and establish his earthly
kingdom for 1000 years. Following this will be the last judgment - the
Great White Throne Judgment where all the unconverted since Adam will
be judged according to their works to determine their degree of
punishment in the lake of fire. God will then renovate the earth with
fire making a New Heaven and a New Earth.
(I Thess. 4:13-17; I Cor. 3:11-15; Romans
14:10-12; II Cor. 5:10; Rev. 6-19; Matt. 24-25; Rev. 19-22)
CONTEMPORARY
MOVEMENTS
We believe that the Charismatic and
Ecumenical Movements are unscriptural, divisive, and detrimental to
the cause of New Testament Christianity. We oppose the National and
World Council of Churches as they reject and seek to undermine the
fundamentals of the Christian Faith through a false unity. We believe
that to walk or work with any of the above groups would require that
we compromise pure Christian doctrine.
(Eph. 5:11; II Tim. 3:1-5; Rom. 12:1,2; I John 4:1-4; II John 9-11; II
Cor. 6:14; 7:1)
