Beliefs

God the Father, creator of all, orders and plans all things according to His purpose and grace. The Father initiates relationship, salvation, and reconciliation with all mankind, which He ordained from before the beginning of the world. He has sent Jesus to redeem people, and He is preparing a place for those that He adopts into his eternal family through His Son. God does all this for the sake of His own glory, the recognition of God’s name in heaven and on earth.

Jesus Christ is the only Son of God. Through Him all things were made. He was prophesied in Scripture to be the Messiah and fulfillment of God’s plan for salvation. By the power of the Holy Spirit, He was born of the virgin Mary and exists with both human and divine nature. He lived a sinless life to be our substitute, ushered in the Kingdom of God on earth, and gave us the example of how to live as ambassadors of God. He is the savior and redeemer of mankind through His death on the cross and His resurrection. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead.

The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity and truly divine in all His attributes. He was sent into the world by the Father and the Son to apply to mankind the saving work of Christ. The Holy Spirit convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. It is the Holy Spirit who brings about the work of regeneration and sanctification in the believer. At the point of salvation, He permanently indwells every believer and is their source of assurance, strength, and wisdom, guiding and empowering them for Christ-like living. He uniquely endows each believer with gifts for the building up of the church body. The Holy Spirit guides believers in understanding and applying the Scriptures, which He inspired.

God has spoken in the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, through the words of human authors. As the verbally inspired Word of God, the Bible is without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of His will for salvation, and the ultimate authority by which every realm of human knowledge and endeavor should be judged. Therefore, it is to be believed in all that it teaches, obeyed in all that it requires, and trusted in all that it promises.

God created mankind in His image and likeness, male and female, to walk in relationship with Him and to glorify, love, worship, and obey Him. God declared that humanity is the pinnacle of his creation. He blessed mankind and charged them with multiplying throughout the earth, stewarding creation and making disciples of Jesus. Mankind sinned when tempted by Satan, and in union with Adam, humans are sinners by nature and choice, enemies with God and under wrath save for reconciliation through the grace of Jesus.

Jesus Christ, as our representative and substitute, shed His blood on the cross as the perfect, all-sufficient sacrifice for our sins. His atoning death and victorious resurrection constitute the only ground for salvation. It is through living and active faith in Jesus’ grace for us that we are saved from condemnation and hell and adopted into the eternal family of God.

Jesus has ordained His church as the representative of His kingdom here on earth. It is made up of everyone God has adopted into His family, all who call on the name of Jesus Christ in faith and follow him accordingly. We are to gather together regularly for the purpose of strengthening the body of believers and carry out God’s plan of redemption. By God’s design, the church is made up of diverse personalities and gifting, making the whole better than the sum of its parts. To that end, we are called to make disciples, to love one another, to submit to one another out of reverence for Christ, and to teach and admonish one another with the wisdom that comes from the Word of Christ dwelling in us richly.

At a time known only to God, the Lord Jesus will return personally, bodily, and in glory. At that time the dead will be raised and God will judge the world, assigning the unbeliever to condemnation and eternal conscious punishment and the believer to eternal blessedness and joy with the Lord. He will establish a new heaven and a new earth to reign as King forever.

If a person is saved by grace, through faith, and it is a gift of God, not by their own works – then it is equally impossible for that person’s works to undo the gift, grace, and work of God. All those that God calls, He justifies, and He does not lose any that are His. A Christian, who has believed in their heart, confessed with their mouth, and placed their faith in Jesus Christ, cannot, through any doing of their own, become un-saved.