Statement of Faith

   We believe:

1. In one holy, loving, all-powerful, and gracious Creator God who exists in three Persons of the Godhead: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
2. That the Bible is the inspired and infallible Word of God, the full and final authority for all matters of faith and practice. 
3. In the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, atoning death, bodily resurrection, heavenly ascension, priestly intercession and that He will soon return to judge the living and the dead, in the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come, some into eternal damnation and others into the resurrection of eternal life.
4. That Jesus Christ suffered and died on the cross for human sin and that His death is the only sacrifice for the sins of the entire world and that it is only efficient in the lives of those individuals who, through repentance and faith in Him, lay hold of eternal life, and that He was raised bodily on the third day, and that He ascended to heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father. 
5. In the Holy Spirit, who brings sinners to repentance, who gives eternal life to believers, and who lives in them to conform them to the image of Jesus Christ and, in the indwelling and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues as the initial physical sign. 
6. That Christians are composed of born again baptized believers in the Lord Jesus Christ who voluntarily gather in regular fellowship edifying the Body of Christ, perfecting the Saints and spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world and who live lives of faith that make evident the Good News that people of all nationalities can enter the kingdom of God by repenting of their iniquities and accepting and putting their trust in Jesus Christ. 
7. That scriptural baptism is by full immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. 
8. That salvation comes not by works, but only by God’s grace through faith and trust in Jesus Christ and that the Bible teaches that without holiness no man shall see the Lord and that the doctrine of sanctification is a definite, yet progressive work of grace, commencing at the time of regeneration and continuing until the consummation of salvation. 
   
   (Revised 3-20-2009)