we believe
our doctrinal statement
The Bible
We believe that the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments are verbally inspired of God and are inerrant in the original writing and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life.
(II Timothy 3:16-17; II Peter 1:19-21)
God
We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, equal in essence, while distinct in personality and function.
(Exodus 20:2-3; Matthew 28:19;
I Corinthians 8:6)
Jesus Christ
We believe that Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of Mary, a virgin, and is true God and true man.
(John 1:1, 14; Luke 1:35; Isaiah 7:14; Galatians 4:4)
Holy spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit is the agent of the new birth through conviction and regeneration and that He seals, indwells, and baptizes every believer into the Body of Christ at the moment of conversion. We believe that the Holy Spirit fills, empowers, and distributes service gifts to believers, but that sign gifts were primarily restricted to the Apostolic Period.
(John 3:5; Ephesians 1:13; Romans 8:9; I Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 5:18; 4:11-12; Romans 12:6-8; Hebrews 2:3-4; Ephesians 2:20; I Corinthians 13:8-13)
creation
We believe in God’s direct creation of the universe without the use of pre-existent material and apart from any process of macro-evolution whatsoever, according to the Genesis account in six literal days.
(Genesis 1:1-31; Exodus 20:11; Colossians 1:16-17; Hebrews 11:3)
man
We believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death but also that spiritual death which is separation from God, and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature and are sinners in thought, word, and deed.
(Genesis 1:26-27;
Genesis 3:1-6;
Romans 5:12,19; Romans 3:10-13;
`Titus 1:15-16)
Salvation
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died as the substitutionary sacrifice for all men. The blood atonement He made was unlimited in its potential. Simple faith in this sacrifice is the only way of Salvation for mankind.
(Isaiah 53:4-11; II Corinthians 5:14-21; I John 2:1-2; II Peter 2:1; I Timothy 4:10; John 3:5-8; 16:8-13)
We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God.
(John 1:12-13; 3:3-16; Acts 16:31; Ephesians 2:8-9)
eternal security
We believe in the eternal security of the believer, that it is impossible for one born into the family of God ever to be lost, because he is forever kept by the power of God.
(John 6:39,40; 10:28-29; Romans 8:35-39; Jude 1; I Peter 1:5)
church
We believe that the local church is the agency through which God has chosen to accomplish His work in the world. A New Testament Baptist church is an organized body of baptized believers, immersed upon a credible confession of faith in Jesus Christ, having two offices (pastor and deacon), congregational in polity, autonomous in nature, and banded together for work, worship, edification, the observance of the ordinances, and the worldwide fulfillment of the Great Commission. We believe that the local church, under Christ’s headship, is to be free from any external hierarchy and should not join itself with any ecumenical endeavor, neo-orthodoxy, new-evangelicalism, or any such efforts that would lead to a compromise of the Truth.
(Acts 2:41-47; Ephesians 3:10; Matthew 28:18-20; I Timothy 3; I Peter 5:1-3; Ephesians 1:22; Romans 16:17; II Corinthians 6:14-17; I Timothy 6:3-5)
ordinances
We believe that the scriptural ordinances of the church are baptism and the Lord’s supper and should be administered by the local church; that baptism, by immersion, should be administered to believers only as a symbol of their belief in the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and as a testimony to the world of that belief and of their death, burial, and resurrection with Him; and that the Lord’s supper should be partaken of by believers to show forth His death “till He come.”
(Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 2:41-47; 8:26-39; I Corinthians 11:23-28; Colossians 2:12)
Second coming
We believe in “that blessed hope”—the personal, premillennial, pre-tribulational, and imminent return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, when the church will be “gathered together unto Him.”
(Titus 2:13; John 14:1-3; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; I Corinthians 15:51-58; II Thessalonians 2:1-3)