Statement of Faith

We believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the infallible Word of God, the source and rule of all our faith and practice. They are fully inspired by God and therefore serve as the authoritative guide for Christian understanding, life and ministry.

We believe in one God, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We believe God the Father is the Creator of heaven and earth. He made man for fellowship with Himself and intended that all creation should live to the praise of His glory.

We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, that He is all man and all God, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, 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 the ministry of the Holy Spirit is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ, and during this age to convict men, to draw men to salvation, to regenerate the believing sinner, and to indwell, guide, instruct, and empower the believer to godly living and service.

We believe the baptism of the Holy Spirit is available to all who believe in Jesus Christ, enabling them to exercise power in ministry and mission. This promise of the Father that the Holy Spirit would be sent in power was not only to the early disciples but continues through the generations to come. We believe that water baptism and the Lord's Supper are ordinances to be observed by the Church.

We believe salvation, the gift of God, is provided solely by His grace through faith in Christ. By turning from sin in repentance, looking in faith to Christ and His death on the cross, man receives eternal life and is born again. There is no other name except Jesus Christ by which men may be saved.

We believe that the true Church is composed of all such persons who through saving faith in Jesus Christ have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit and are united together in the body of Christ of which He is the Head.

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ commanded all believers to proclaim the Gospel of the Kingdom throughout the world and to disciple men of every nation. The fulfillment of that Great Commission requires that all worldly and personal ambitions be subordinated to a total commitment to "Him who loved us and gave Himself for us." We believe in the bodily resurrection of the dead; of the believer to everlasting joy with the Lord, of the unbeliever to judgment and everlasting punishment.

We believe that Jesus Christ will come again to the earth -- personally, visibly and bodily -- to consummate history and the eternal plan of God.