Faith Statement

WE BELIEVE AND TEACH

That the SCRIPTURES of the Old and New Testaments are verbally inspired of God and inerrant in the original writings, and that they are the Word of God and the final authority for faith and conduct.

That there is ONE GOD who is sovereign, the creator of all things and man, eternally existing in three persons in a threefold relationship: that of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

That JESUS CHRIST was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary and is God enfleshed, the God-man, that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures as a SUBSTITUTIONARY SACRIFICE, and that all who believe in Him are freely justified on the ground of His shed blood and stand before God accepted in the character and merit of Jesus Christ.

The bodily RESURRECTION of our Lord Jesus Christ and His ascension into heaven.

That MAN was created in the image of God, that he sinned, and thereby incurred not only physical death but also the spiritual death which is separation from God, and that man must willingly accept God's free gift of Salvation, and that all who by faith receive the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior are born again of the Holy Spirit and receive a new nature.

That the CHURCH is a spiritual organism made up of all believers in Christ, and that its ordinances are baptism and the Lord's Supper.