What We Believe

We believe in the Scripture of the Old and New Testaments as verbally inspired of God, inerrant in the original writings, and of supreme and final authority in all matter of life and faith. IITim. 3:16

We believe in one God eternally existing in three equal persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Deut. 33:27, John 1:1, Heb. 9:14

We believe that God the Son became incarnate in the person of Jesus Christ, who was begotten by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, and is true God and true man. Lk. 1:35, I Tim. 2:5
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sin according to the Scriptures as a substitute sacrifice, and that all that believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed Blood. I Cor. 15:3, Rom 3:24
We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into Heaven, and in His present life there for us as High Priest, Intercessor, and Advocate. Acts 1:9-10, 2:32, Heb. 4:14, 

We believe in the rapture of the saved to meet Christ in the air, and in ht personal, visible, imminent, and glorious return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Acts 1:11, I these. 4:13-18, Rev. 19:11-16

We believe that the Holy Spirit is a person, possessed of all the distinctively divine attributes. He is God. He convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgement. He regenerates, seals, and sets apart the believer to a holy life. At regeneration, He baptizes the believer into the body of Christ and comes to indwell him permanently. John 14:16-17, 16:8-11, I Cor. 6:19, 12:12-13

We believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death, but that spiritual death which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, and in the case of those who reach moral responsibility become sinners in thought word, and deed. Gen. 1:27, Psa 51:5, Rom. 3:23, 5:12

We believe that whosoever, by faith and apart from works of any kind, receives the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour is "born from above" and thereby becomes a child of God, "created in Christ Jesus unto good works." Eph 2:8-10

We believe that the Church in its invisible form is universal, the true body and bride of Christ and that all who are born again are members regardless of organizational affiliation. We believe that Christ ordained the observance of water baptism and the Lord's Supper till he returns. Matt. 28:19-20, Luk. 22:19-20, Acts 8:36-38, I Cor. 11:23-26

We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the unending blessedness of the saved, and the unending punishment of the lost. Lk. 16:26,   I Thes. 4:16, Rev. 20:10-15

We believe in the reality and personality of Satan. Job 1:6-7, Matt. 4:1-11, I Peter 5:8

God alone is Lord of the conscience, and He has left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men, which are contrary to His Word or are not contained therein. Church and state should be separate. The state owes to the church protection and full freedom in the pursuit of its spiritual ends. In providing for such freedom no ecclesiastical group or denomination should be favored by the state more than others. Civil  government being ordained by God, it is the duty of Christian to render loyal obedience thereto in all things not contrary to the revealed will of God. The church should not resort to the civil power to carry on its work.  The Gospel of Christ contemplates spiritual means alone for the pursuit of its end. The state has no right to impose taxes for the support of any form of religion. A free church in a free state is the christian ideal, and this implies the right of free and unhindered access to God on the part of all men, and the right to form and propagate opinions in the sphere of religion without interference by the civil power. Matt. 22:17-21, Rom. 13:1-7, I Tim. 2:1-4

Ever Christian is under obligation to seek to make the will of Christ regnant in his own life and in hum society, to oppose in the spirit of Christ ever form off greed, selfishness, and vice to provide for the widowed, the orphaned, the aged, the helpless and the sick, to seek to bring industry, government, and society as a whole under the way of the principles of righteousness, true and brotherly love. To promote these needs, Christians should be ready to work with men of good will in any good cause always being careful to act in the spirit of love without compromising their loyalty to Christ and His truth. All means and methods used in social service for improvement of society and the establishment of righteousness among men and must finally depend on the regeneration of the individual by the saving grace of God in Christ Jesus.     Eph. 2:10, Titus 3:8

It is the duty of every Christian man and woman and every church of Christ to seek to extend the Gospel to the ends of the earth. The new birth of mans' spirit by God's Holy Spirit means the birth of love for others. Missionary effort on the part of all rest thus upon a spiritual necessity of the regenerate life. It is also expressly and repeatedly commanded in the teachings of Christ. It is the duty of every child of God to seek Constantly to win the lost to Christ by personal effort and by all other methods sanctioned by the Gospel of Christ. Matt. 18:19-20, Acts 1:8, II Cor. 5:17-20