What We Believe

The Bible, both the Old and New Testaments, are verbally inspired of God, written by human authors, and are the revelation of God to man, the infallible, authoritative rule of faith and conduct.

The one true God has revealed Himself as the eternally self-existent "I AM," the Creator of heaven and earth and the Redeemer of mankind. He has further revealed Himself as embodying the principles of relationship and association as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

The Lord Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God. The Scriptures declare HIs role in creation, virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, substitutionary work on the cross, bodily resurrection from the dead, ascension to the right hand of God, and His immanent return to Earth to rule as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

As a result of the Fall, we have incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death, which is separation from God.  Therefore, our only hope of redemption is through faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ the Son of God.  Salvation is received through repentance toward God and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ. By the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, being justified by grace through faith, man becomes an heir of God, according to the hope of eternal life.

All believers receive the Holy Spirit (the Spirit of God) when they receive Jesus Christ as Lord of their lives at salvation. However, believers are also entitled to and should expect and earnestly seek the promise of the Father, the baptism in the Holy Spirit. We believe this was the normal experience of Christ followers in the early Christian Church. With the baptism in the Holy Spirit, comes power for life and service.  The baptism in the Holy Spirit is accompanied by the gift of tongues.

Divine healing is an integral part of the gospel. Deliverance from sickness is provided for in the atonement.

The blessed hope of the church is the rapture or the “catching away” of the church. The Bible teaches that at the time of the rapture of the church, living Christians will be changed; those whom have died in Christ will be raised in glory; all Christians will forever be with the Lord, and we should be comforted with this truth.

People will exist forever, death is not the end of our existence. We will either exist eternally separated from God by sin, or eternally with God through forgiveness and salvation. Heaven and Hell are real places of eternal existence.

We believe marriage is defined in the Bible as a covenant, a sacred bond between one man and one woman,
instituted by and publicly entered into before God.