What We Believe

The Bible

We believe that every word of the sixty-six books forming the Old and New Testaments was inspired by God and given without error, including statements relating to science and history. We furthermore believe that God has divinely preserved His inspired words for the world today in the Hebrew Masoretic Text of the Old Testament, and the Greek Textus Receptus of the New Testament. Since the King James Version is still regarded as the most accurate and one of the only translations available from those divinely preserved texts, it is the only translation we use in our teaching and preaching. We do not believe additional written or spoken revelation is necessary or should be sought after in our day.
(Ps. 19:7-11, II Tim 3:16-17, II Peter 1:16-21)

God

We believe in one God existing in three Persons as The Father, The Son Jesus Christ, and The Holy Spirit who are co-eternal and co-equal.
(John 16:7-15, I John 5:1-8)

Jesus Christ

We believe in the complete deity of Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His sinless life and miraculous ministry on earth, His death on the cross as a substitutionary payment sufficient for the sins of all mankind, in His bodily resurrection from the dead, and in His exaltation to the right hand of God as Lord, Mediator, and Priest.
(Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:18-25; Hebrews 4:15; 7:26; I Corinthians 15:1-28)

The Second Coming of Christ

We believe in the pre-tribulational, pre-millennial, and imminent return of the Lord Jesus Christ to bring every believer of this age, dead and living, home to heaven with Himself. We also believe in the post-tribulational visible appearance of the Lord with His saints on the earth to set up His millennial kingdom.
(I Thess. 4:13-18, Rev. 3:10, Matt. 24:29-30)

Salvation

We believe in the once-for-all substitutionary sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ for sinners, that salvation is wholly of divine grace apart from any works of merit of the sinner; that it is received by a sinner when he repents toward God and puts his trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as his own personal Savior.
(John 3:16; Romans 10:9-10; Ephesians 2:8-10)

The Church

We believe that the church, the body of Christ, is a spiritual organism made up of all born-again believers of this present age; that it was birthed and empowered by the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; that it was purchased with the blood of Christ; that its mission is to bear the gospel to the ends of the earth.
(Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 2; Ephesians 1:22-23)

Ordinances

We believe every Christian should obey the Lord in baptism by immersion following salvation and should regularly participate in the Lord's Supper in a local church fellowship.
(Matt. 28:18-20; I Cor. 11:17-34)

Eternity

We believe that the afterlife is composed of a literal and eternal Heaven and Hell and that every human will be resurrected, the saved to eternal life, and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment. We believe that the redeemed are at death "absent from the body and present with the Lord.”
(Matthew 25:46; Luke 16:19-31; Revelation 20:1-15)