WE BELIEVE:

• We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.
  
• We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
  
  
• We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the conception of His Body by the Holy Spirit and His birth by the virgin Mary, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
  
• We believe in the power and presence of the Holy Spirit, that He personally dwells within and guides those who are true believers, and empowers them for service, giving unto them various gifts and producing within their lives fruits of Christian character.
  
• We believe that man was created by God and not by accidental, spontaneous, or self-propagated occurrence, action, method, or process; that he was created in the image and likeness of God possessing personality and holiness, and that he is a free moral agent possessing the power of choice, and that the purpose of his creation was to glorify God.
  
• We believe the Biblical teaching about the fall of man and that because of his fall, death passed upon all men and sin entered into the world; therefore condemnation rests upon each person who has reached the age and development with which comes accountability before God, and he is forever lost, except he be born again.
  
• We believe that salvation is wholly of grace, but conditioned solely on repentance toward God and acceptance of Christ by faith. When the sinner meets these requirements, God justifies and regenerates them. Justification is a judicial act absolving from punishment and restoring to divine favor. Regeneration is the impartation of divine life effecting a change in the believer’s nature. By the operation of the Holy Spirit through the Word, he is given a disposition to obey God. This experience is witnessed to by the Holy Spirit.
  
• We believe in the oneness of the Church of Christ, composed of all Spirit-regenerated believers, and that these believers both living and dead shall be caught up together at His second coming.
  
• We believe the Christian Ordinances are outward rites appointed by Christ to be administered in each church, not as a means to salvation but as visible signs of the facts and realities of salvation.
  
• We believe in water Baptism, and that it is to be administered to believers only. We recommend immersion as the mode.
  
• We believe the Lord's Supper is an ordinance instituted by Christ for observation by His follower until He returns. It consists of partaking of the consecrated emblems of bread and wine, and symbolizes the death and suffering of Christ for the remission of our sins and our continual dependence upon Him for our sustenance. The Lord's table should be open to all believers who are in right relationship with God, regardless of denomination.
  
• We believe that at the return of the Lord, the bodies of the righteous dead will be raised and the living believers will be changed so that both will have literal, spiritual, and immortal bodies like unto Christ's own glorious body.
  
• We believe sanctification is the work of grace begun by the Holy Spirit at the moment of regeneration and continues progressively until physical death. We believe it is not instantaneous or subsequent to salvation in our daily experience. The old nature is not eradicated until after death, but we must constantly guard against its influence in our lives.