Our Statement of Faith

1. We believe that love for one another as Jesus loves the believer manifests our discipleship, proves our love for God and symbolizes our authority as New Testament Churches. Love is therefore the great commandment of the LORD Jesus Christ upon which all other are dependent. (Matt. 22:35-40; John 13:34; 1 John 4:4-21; 1 John 5:1-3; Rev. 2:4, 5)


2. We believe in the infallible, verbal inspiration of the whole Bible and that the Bible is the all sufficient rule of faith and practice. (Psalm 119:160; 2 Tim. 3:16, 17)


3. We believe in the personal triune God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, equal in divine perfection. (Matt. 28:19)


4. We believe in the Genesis account of Creation. (Gen 1;2)


5. We believe that Satan is a fallen angel, the archenemy of God and man, the unholy God of this world, and that his destiny is the eternal lake of fire. (Isa. 14:12-15; Ezek. 28:11-19; Matt. 25:41; 2 Cor. 4:4; Eph. 6:10-17; Rev. 20:10)


6. We believe in the virgin birth and sinless humanity of Jesus Christ. (Matt. 1:18-20; 2 Cor. 5:21; 1 Peter 2:22)


7. We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ. (John 10:30; John 1:1, 14; 2 Cor. 5:19)


8. We believe the Holy Spirit is the divine Administrator for Jesus Christ in His Churches. (Luke 24:49; John 14:16, 17; Act 1:4, 5, 8; Acts 2:1-4)


9. We believe that miraculous spiritual manifestation gifts were done away when the Bible was completed. Faith, Hope, and Love are the vital abiding Spiritual Gifts. (1 Cor. Chapters 12-14)


10. We believe that Man was created in the image of God and lived in innocency until he fell by voluntary transgression from his sinless state, the result being that all mankind are sinners. (Gen. 1:26; Gen. 3:6-24; Rom. 5:12-19)


11. We believe that the suffering and death of Jesus Christ was substitutionary for all mankind and is efficacious only to those who believe. (Isa. 53:6; Heb. 2:9; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 3:18; 2 Peter 3:9; 1 John 2:2)


12. We believe in the bodily resurrection and ascension of Christ and the bodily resurrection of His saints. (Matt 28:1-7; Acts 1:9-11; 1 Cor. 15:42-58; 1 Thess. 4:13-18)


13. We believe in the pre-millennial, personal, bodily return of Christ as the crowning event of the Gentile age. This event will include the resurrection of the righteous to eternal heaven, and the Millennium will be followed by the resurrection of the unrighteous unto eternal punishment in the lake of fire that the righteous shall enter into the heaven age. (John 14:1-6; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; 2 Thess. 2:8; Rev. 19; Rev 20:4-6; Rev. 20:11-15; Rev 21:8)


14. We believe that the depraved sinner is saved wholly by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, and the requisites to regeneration are repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (Luke 13:3-5; John 3:16-18; Acts 20:21; Rom. 6:23; Eph. 4:30; Titus 3:5)


15. We believe that all who trust Jesus Christ for Salvation are eternally secured in Him and shall not perish. (John 3:36; John 5:24; John 10:27-30; Rom. 8:35-39; Heb. 10-:39; 1 Peter 1:5)


16. We believe that God deals with believers as His children, the He chastises the disobedient, and that He rewards the obedient. (Matt. 16:27; Matt. 25:14-23; John 1:12; Heb. 12:5-11; 2 John 8; Rev. 22:12)


17. We believe that Jesus Christ established His Church during His ministry on earth and that it is always a local, visible assembly of scripturally baptized believes in covenant relationship to carry out the Commission of the Lord Jesus Christ, and each church is an independent, self-governing body, and no other ecclesiastical body may exercise authority over it. We believe that Jesus Christ gave the Great Commission on the New Testament Churches only, and that He promised the perpetuity of His Churches. (Matt. 4:18-22; Matt. 16:18; Matt. 28:19, 20; Mark 1:14-20; John 1:35-51; Eph. 3:21)


18. We believe that there are two pictorial ordinances in the Lord’s churches: Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Scriptural baptism is the immersion of penitent believers in water, administered by the authority of a New Testament church in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Lord’s Supper is a memorial ordinance, restricted to the members of the church observing the ordinance. (Matt. 28:19, 20; Acts 8:12, 38; Rom. 6:4; 1 Cor. 5:11-13; 1 Cor. 11:1, 2, 17-20, 26)


19. We believe that there are two divinely appointed offices in a church, pastors and deacons, to be filled by men whose qualifications are set forth in Titus and 1 Timothy.


20. We believe that all associations, fellowships, and committees are, and properly should be, servants of, and under control of the churches. (Matt. 20:25-28)


21. We believe in freedom of worship without interference from the government and affirm our belief in civil obedience, unless the laws and regulations of civil government run contrary to the Holy Scriptures. (Rom. 13:1-7; 1 Peter 2:13-15)


22. We believe the Bible defines marriage as a union of one man to one woman – his wife. By one man we mean a male in anatomy, and by one woman we mean a female in anatomy. We do not recognize the claims of those who say they are a female trapped in a man’s body or a male trapped in a female’s body. We do not recognize sex change operations as changing the sex of a man or woman. We do not recognize same-sex civil unions or same-sex marriages, regardless of any government approvals of any country, province, state, city, or town. (Leviticus 18:22; Leviticus 20:13; Deuteronomy 23:17, 28; Genesis 19:4-12; Genesis 19:23-28; 1 Kings 14:24; 1 Kings 15:11-; 1 Kings 22:41-46; 2 Kings 23:7; Isaiah 1:9; Isaiah 3:9; Isaiah 13:19; Lamentations 4:6; Ezekiel 16:49-50; Romans 1:26-32; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11; 1 Timothy 1:9-10; 2 Peter 2:6; Jude 1:7)


23. We believe that God has commanded that intimate sexual activity should be engaged outside of marriage between a man and a woman. Therefore, we reject any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, bestiality, incest, fornication, adultery, and pornography as sinful sexual perversion based on the Word of God. (Genesis 2:24, 19:5, 13, 26:8-9; Leviticus 18:1-30; Romans 1:26-29; 1 Corinthians 5:1; 6:9; 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8; Hebrews 13:4)


24. We believe that human life begins at conception and that the unborn child is a living human being. Abortion constitutes the unjustified, unexcused taking of unborn human life. Abortion is murder. We reject any teaching that abortions of pregnancies due to rape, incest, birth defects, gender selection, birth or population control, or the mental well-being of the mother are acceptable. (Job 3:16; Psalms 51:5, 139:14-16; Isaiah 44:24; 49:1, 5; Jeremiah 1:5; 20:15-18; Luke 1:44)