Doctrinal Statement

 

SCRIPTURES

 

We believe in the verbal, plenary inspiration of the entire Bible, both the Old and New Testaments. We accept the Authorized Version (KJV) as the divinely preserved and perfect Word of God for the English-speaking world.

We believe the Bible is the final authority for faith and practice. 

 

TRINITY

 

We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

 

 

JESUS CHRIST

 

We believe that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God, eternally existing yet born of a virgin. Being God, He lived a sinless life, making His death on the Cross both sufficient and substitutionary for the sins of the whole world. After making atonement for the sins of the world with His own blood, He ascended into Heaven with a glorified body where He is seated at the right hand of the Father as Head of the Church, making intercession for the saints as our High Priest.

 

SALVATION

 

We believe that man is lost in sin and must be born again to enter the Kingdom of God. We believe that for lost and sinful men, regeneration by the Holy Ghost is absolutely essential. The salvation of a man’s soul is by grace alone through personal faith in the finished work of Christ on the Cross.

We believe in the eternal security and preservation of every true believer.

We believe in the eternal existence of the soul, that at death the soul of the believer goes to heaven and the soul of the unbeliever goes to hell into eternal torment.

 

CHURCH

 

We believe that the local church is a group of believers baptized in water; assembled together for edification, exhortation, and evangelism as commanded by Christ in the Great Commission;

 

SECOND COMING

 

We believe the Lord Jesus Christ Himself is coming again in the air at any moment to rapture His Church and to reward their service. The unbelievers left behind will go through a seven-year period called the Tribulation, after which Christ shall return visibly to the earth with His saints to set up His Kingdom of one thousand years of righteous rule. After this, the unbelievers of all the ages will stand at the Great White Throne to be judged and cast into the Lake of Fire, separated from God forever, while believers will spend eternity in the fullness of joy in Heaven with the Lord.