What We Believe
● We believe in the one true and living God whose person and work manifests himself in three separate and distinct roles which is, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. (1 Jn 5:7; Pet 1:2)
● Jesus Christ the Word is one in the same and we believe he is coeternal and coequal with God. He was there in the beginning of the world speaking it into existence through the Word. (Jn 1:1-3; Jn 1:14; Col 1:15-17; He 1:3)
● We hold the 1611 King James Bible both Old and New Testaments to be the divinely inspired word of God translated into the English language; therefore, it is the perfect rule and guide for faith and practice in the Lord’s church. (1 Pet 19-21; Ps 12:6,7; He 1:1,2; Ps 119:104,105)
● Core to our belief is the doctrine of election. God chose a people in covenant with Christ before the foundation of the world according to the good pleasure of His sovereign will. This innumerable chosen host of people is secured out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation. (Eph 1:4-6; 2Tim 1:9; Ge 22:17; He 11:12; Rev 5:9)
● Total depravity is something common to all mankind. This depraved nature was given us in the first man Adam as he transgressed and sinned against God and his law. As a result, every human being subsequently inherited both sin and death even though they were not guilty of committing the same sin as Adam. (Ge 2:16,17; Ro 5:12; Ro 5:14,18)
● In consideration of man’s sin sick condition, we subscribe to the belief, he has no power, ability, or free will to recover himself from this fallen state. The only way that man can be made just with God is through the saving grace of the spotless lamb of God, Jesus Christ. Therefore, all God chose before the foundation of the world Jesus with purpose died to procure. (Ro 3:24; Ro 5:8-11; Ro 8:28-30; Eph 2:13-16; He 1:3; Col 1:13,14; Col 2:13-15; Titus 3:3-5)
● Therefore, God’s people are saved by His amazing grace plus nothing. Man did all the sinning and God did all the saving. (Ro 3:23-; Eph 1:6,7; Eph 2:8-10)
● We believe in the direct operation of the Holy Spirit. Which means at some point in an individual’s life between conception and death all the elect (chosen by God) will be directly and personally called by His regenerative power. In scripture this is commonly known as the new birth. (Jer 31:3,33,34; Jn3:3,5-8; Jn 6:44,65; Titus 3:5; Eph 2:1 Col 2:13)
● Since God foreknew every last heir of promise in election, and Jesus died to cleanse and reconcile that same number to God and the Holy Spirit seals them by the new birth, then we conclude God’s children are everlastingly safe in the hands of a sovereign mighty God and will never fall away or be removed from his undying love for his family. (Jn 3:16; Jn 10:27-29; Ro 8:35,39)
● Upon a public profession of faith in Jesus Christ as the eternal son of God, his finished work of salvation by dying for the sins of his elect family, and hence rising again for their justification, a professing believer is submitted to the ordinance of baptism. The proper mode of baptism is by full submersion in water depicting the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. (Mt. 3:16; Acts 8:36-38)
● In remembrance of what the death of Christ accomplished for his family we adhere to the ordinance of the Lord’s supper using unleavened bread and wine a proper representation and emblem of his sinless body and the cleansing power of his blood. Only baptized believers in good standing with their home church of like faith and order are proper recipients of this ordinance. (Mt 26:26-28; Mk 14:22- 26; Lk 22:14-23; 1 Cor 11:23-26)
● Lastly but not limited too we believe in the resurrection of the dead, with both the just and the unjust appearing before God in the final judgment where the punishment of the wicked will be everlasting and the joys of the righteous eternal. (Jn 5:28,29; 1 Cor 15:52; Mt 25:31- 34)