1. We believe the Bible is the inspired (God-breathed), infallible, and inerrant Word of God, and has been preserved for His people to guide and direct their lives. This inspiration is both verbal and plenary. The Old and New Testaments are all we need to govern our lives by today. We believe the Authorized King James Version of the Bible is the best translation in English of the Traditional Text, and will use no other translation for public or private ministry. II Timothy 3:16-17; II Peter 1:19-21
2. We believe in one God – eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, existing as three Persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, one in nature, attributes, power, and glory. Genesis 1:1, 26; Proverbs 30:4; Mark 12:20; Matthew 28:19; II Corinthians 13:14; John 1:1-4, 18; Acts 5:3-4
3. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, and that He is both true God and true man.
Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 1:26-35; Philippians 2:6-11; Isaiah 7:14; John 1:14
4. We believe in the literal 6 day, 24 hour account of creation, that the creation of man lies in the special, immediate, and formative acts of God and not from previously existing form of life. Genesis 1:26-27; 2:7-9, 16-17; 3:1-19
5. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice and that He rose again for our justification; and that all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood and are saved by grace through faith wholly apart from human merit and works. Acts 13:39; 16:31; Romans 3:21-28; Ephesians 2:8-10; Titus 3:3-8
6. We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus are born again by the Holy Spirit through the Word of God and thereby become the children of God forever and are eternally secure. John 1:12-13; 3:3-16; 5:24; John 10:28-29; I Peter 1:23; II Peter 1:4-11
7. We believe that the Holy Spirit is a divine Person, equal with God the Father and God the Son; that He was active in creation; that He convicts of sin, righteousness, and judgment; that He is the Agent in the new birth; that He baptizes all believers into the body of Christ at conversion; that He indwells, sanctifies, and helps the believer. Psalms 139:7-12; John 14:16-17; John 16:13-14; Romans 8:9; I Corinthians 6:19
We believe that the sign gifts of the Holy Spirit are completed and are not applicable to the work of the Holy Spirit today. I Corinthians 12:8-10, 28-30, 14:1-40
8. We believe in the imminent “Blessed Hope,” the Rapture of the church before the tribulation, when the “Lord shall descend from heaven” to catch up His bride to meet Him in the air and “so shall we ever be with the Lord.” John 14:1-3; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; I Corinthians 15:15-58
9. We believe in the literal, bodily resurrection of the crucified Lord, His ascension into heaven, His present life there as our High Priest and Advocate, and His personal, bodily, visible return to the earth at the end of the tribulation to establish His millennial Kingdom on earth, and to reign as only Potentate, the King of Kings, and the Lord of Lords. Luke 24:36-43; John 20:24-29; Acts 1:9-11; I Corinthians 15:25; Revelation 1:5-7; 19:11-16; 20:6
10. We believe in the bodily resurrection of all the dead; the saved to a life of eternal glory and bliss in heaven with God; the unsaved to eternal judgment of conscious suffering and woe in the lake of fire. John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:6; 11-15; 21:1-8; Matthew 10:28; 18:8-9; 25:41, 46; Mark 9:43-49; II Thessalonians 1:6-9
11. We believe in personal separation from all practices and influences of the world which hinder a spirit-filled life. We believe in Biblical separation from all forms of ecclesiastical apostasy. Romans 12:1; James 4:4; I John 2:15-17; II Corinthians 6:14; 7:1; Colossians 3:1-17; Romans 6:1-14; Galatians 5:16-25
12. We believe that it is the privilege and responsibility of every believer to be a personal soul winner and to do his utmost to give the gospel of Christ to the whole world. Mark 16:15; Acts 1:8; John 17:18; 20:21; II Corinthians 5:20
13. We believe that the local Church is an organized congregation of immersed believers, associated by covenant, observing the ordinances of Christ, having the offices of pastor and deacon, exercising the gifts, rights, privileges, and the responsibilities given them by His Word, and that it is the absolute right of self-government. We believe that the Church which is His Body includes all New Testament believers. Matthew 18:15-17; I Corinthians 1:2; 7:17; 11:16; I Timothy 3:1-15; I Corinthians 12:28; Ephesians 1:22-23; 2:14-15; 5:23-32
14. We believe that the Scriptural ordinances of the local church are Baptism and the Lord’s Supper; that Baptism, by immersion, should be administered to believers only, as an identifying symbol of their belief in the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and our death to sin and resurrection to a new walk in life, and that it is a prerequisite to local church membership; that the Lord’s Supper is a commemoration of His death and should be preceded by believer’s baptism and the solemn self-examination. Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 8:36-39; 18:8; Romans 6:3-5; Colossians 2:12; I Corinthians 11:23-32