Our Beliefs

• The Bible is the Word of God.
• There is one true God who exists in three Persons: God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.
• God created all things for His glory.
• Men and women were originally created in the image of God without sin.
• Man rebelled against God, causing sin and death to enter the world.
• All humans are now born completely sinful.
• Jesus Christ came to earth to reveal God and redeem sinful man.
• Salvation is from God’s grace alone, through Christ’s blood alone, by the Holy Spirit’s work alone.
• At conversion, the Holy Spirit indwells believers and gives spiritual gifts to them for the glory of God.
• The Church is the community of Christians for all time who have been loved and saved by Jesus to serve Him by making disciples of all nations.
• The two church ordinances are believer’s baptism and communion.
• Jesus is returning to establish His Kingdom on earth.
• Heaven is the eternal reality for those who surrender to Christ; Hell is the eternal reality for those who reject Christ.

Jesus Christ is the Gospel. 

The good news is revealed in Christ’s birth, life, death, resurrection and ascension. Christ’s death is the heart of the gospel, His resurrection the power of the gospel, and His ascension the glory of the gospel. Christ went to the cross in the place of the sinful believer and 

died in our place for our sin.

Christ’s death satisfies the demands of God’s holy justice, appeases His holy wrath, demonstrates 

His mysterious love, and reveals His amazing grace. 

Salvation is found for sinful humanity in no one else

 but Jesus Christ. The Church’s responsibility is to sincerely preach this gospel to all men in all nations in the power of the Holy Spirit for the glory of God.

(I Corinthians 15:1–6; John 3:14–17; Romans 3:21–26)

God’s salvation, by way of Jesus Christ, is only effectual to those who genuinely repent of their sins and by God’s grace, put saving faith in Christ. Repentance is turning from sinful self-government, and faith is turning to Jesus Christ, 

surrendering to His Lordship.

While neither repentance nor faith save, they are God’s commanded conditions and responses for men to be saved. Biblical repentance is characterized by a changed life, and saving faith is evidenced by a growth in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, a love for God, and the assurance of salvation by the witness of the Holy Spirit.

God is the one who calls humanity to faith and repentance. Upon conversion, the Holy Spirit unites the believer to Jesus Christ where the believer is the regenerated, redeemed, justified, and empowered.

(Mark 1:14–15; John 3:18–21; Acts 17:30–31, 26:19–20)

God, by His Word and Spirit, creates the Church, calling sinful men out of the whole human race into the fellowship of Christ’s Body. By the same Word and Spirit, He guides and preserves that new redeemed humanity. The Church is not a religious institution or denomination but rather made up of those who have become genuine followers of Jesus Christ and have personally appropriated the gospel. While all those saved for all time make up the universal church, God has also called believers 

in particular places to form local churches for the physical embodiment of the church on earth.

The Church exists to worship and glorify God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit and to serve Him by faithfully doing His will in the earth. All members of the Church universal are to be vitally connected and committed to a local church. In this context, they are to live in this present world as the people of God, demonstrating the reality of the kingdom of God, manifesting the purity of the life of God, and living solely for the glory of God. Believers are to use the gifts the Holy Spirit has given in order to build up the church 

and preach the gospel, ministering and making disciples throughout the world.

(Colossians 1:18; Ephesians 1:22–23; Acts 2:42–47; I Peter 2:9–10; Matthew 28:18–20)