Beliefs

We believe there is one and only one true God, the Maker of heaven and earth; inexpressibly glorious in holiness, and worthy of all possible honor; that in the unity of the Godhead there are three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Exodus 20:2-3; I Corinthians 8:6; Revelation 4:11; I John 5:7.

 
We believe in the Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ: His virgin birth, His sinless life, His substitutionary death on the cross for our sins, His bodily resurrection from the grave, His ascension to the right hand of God the Father where he ever liveth to make intercession for the believers. Acts 1:11; I Thess 4:16-17; John 3:16; John 1:13; Hebrews 1:18; Colossians 1:15-19; Acts 4:12; Matthew 1:18

 
We believe that the Holy Spirit is a divine person, with God the Father and God the Son and of the same nature; that He convicts of sin; that he bears witness to the truth of the Gospel in preaching and testimony; that He is the agent in the New Birth; that He seals, endues, guides, teaches, witnesses, sanctifies and helps the believer.  John 14:16,17; Matt 28:19 ; Hebrews 9:14; John 14:26; Luke 1:35; 1:13, 14 ; Mark 1:8 ; John 1:33; Acts 11:16; Luke 24:49; Romans 8:14,16,26,27.

We believe that all persons everywhere have offended a holy God in ways they cannot completely understand. The Bible teaches that the heart (the inner person that no one can see except God and you) is deceitful and can’t even understand the depths of its own deceitfulness. The heart is deceitful (Jeremiah 17:9). Furthermore, and all persons  have been blinded to truth by an external force, the god of this age (2 Corinthians 4:4). The final result of this condition is that when a person dies, they will spend an eternity in hell, a place where a just and righteous God sends his enemies (Revelation 20: 14, 15).

We also believe that Jesus Christ, the sinless son of God, died on a cross 2000 years ago to be a bearer of the sins of the world (2 Corinthians 5:21). The problem with all persons everywhere is  sin, and Jesus Christ’s sacrifice on the cross is the answer. People must turn from their  sin (Acts 20:21). To turn from sin means that you change your mind about sin, realizing that sin is the problem that has made of all persons enemies of God(1 Thess 1:9). All persons must turn from a lifestyle of  sin to an alternative lifestyle of faith in the Lord and Savior of the world, Jesus Christ (Acts 20:21; John 3:16; 14:6).

 
We believe that charismatic sign-gifts attested the authority of the apostles and prophets as revealers of truth; and that all such gifts have ceased for the remainder of the church age. 2 Cor 12:12; Heb 2:3,4 Rom 15:19.

 
We believe the Bible to be the verbally inspired word of God in whole and part, and as such is the sufficient and final authority in all matters for the believer. 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:19-21.

 
We believe Christians should and must grow in their obedience to and knowledge of their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Eph 4:17-24; 2 Peter 3:18; Philippians 3:12-15.

We believe each member should serve their church in some active regular way.1 Cor 12:12-20; Eph 4:4-7, 16.

We believe in water baptism by immersion as a symbol of union with Jesus Christ and his church. Acts 2:38-41; 8:12, 36-38; 9:18; 10:47; 16:15; 18:8; 19;5.

We are pre-millinnial, pre-tribulational in our  doctrine of last things. Pre-millennial, Daniel 2:31-45, Psalm 2, Pre-tribulational, 1 Thess 1:10; 5:9.

We believe in the historic Fundamentals of the Faith.  When we speak of being “fundamentalists” we mean that we subscribe to the 1895 Niagara Conference Fundamentals.
What are the historic Fundamentals of the Faith?

• Doctrine of the virgin birth of Christ
• Jesus Christ is totally God and yet totally man
• Literal physical resurrection Jesus Christ
• He really did die, he really was raised from the dead physically His death on the cross was a substitutionary atonement.
• Inerrancy of scriptures.
• Creation of the universe according to the Genesis account.
• Miracles
• Substitutionary Atonement
• Depravity of man, need for redemption
• Salvation by grace through faith
• Literal physical Second Coming of Christ.
• He will receive and reward his saints.
• He will punish those who have rejected him with eternal torments in a place called hell.

We are Baptists.
In affirming that we are Baptists, we are not suggesting that we are the only ones who love Jesus Christ; that we are the only ones who hold to the inerrancy of the Scriptures or to the above fundamentals of the faith. In no way do we intend to suggest that we are superior, that our way is the only way to interpret certain doctrines of Scripture in order to remain true to the fundamentals of the faith above. We do however, affirm a commitment to the following distinctives:

• B – biblical authority, sufficiency and inerrancy, 2 Tim 3:16,17.
• A – autonomy of the local church, 1 Tim 3:15; 1 Cor 5:13; Acts 6:1-6; Matt 18:17 No other church or outside organization can exercise ecclesiastical or doctrinal control over the local church
• P – priesthood of all believers, Heb 4:14-16; Eph 2:18 Rev 1:5,6; 1 Pet 2:9.
• T – two ordinances, baptism and communion, Acts 2:41,42
• I – individual soul liberty, Rom 14:5.
• S – saved, water-immersed membership, Acts 2:41,47.
• T – two officers, pastor(elder/overseer) and deacon, Phil 1:1.
• S – separation of church and state, Matt 22:21.