Articles of Belief

The Word of God, in it's entirety, is the basis and foundation of this church summarized in the following:

1. We believe in the Old and New Testament as verbally inspired of God, inerrant in the original writings and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life.

2. We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

3. We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, and is true God and true man.

4. 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 by choice sinners in the thought, word, and deed.

5. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as representative and substitutionary sacrifice; and that all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood.

6. We believe in the physical resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into Heaven, and in His present life there for us as High Priest and Advocate.

7. We believe that salvation is by grace through faith, and that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God.

8. We believe that those who are truly born again cannot fall away and perish, but are kept by the power of God.

9. We believe that a true local church of Christ is a congregation of Baptized believers associated by covenant to proclaim the Gospel, observe the ordinances, and to encourage and tell one another to grow in Christ. We believe that each church should be independent, responsible directly to Christ; and that the Scriptural officers of the local church are pastors, and deacons, whose qualifications and duties are set forth in the New Testament.

10. We believe that the only Scriptural mode of baptism is immersion in water, and that this ordinance should be administered only to those who give a  clear confession of their faith in Christ, and show evidence of the new birth in lives We believe that baptism is a prerequisite to church membership.

11. We believe that the Lord's Supper was instituted by Christ; that He gave the bread and fruit of the vine to represent His body and blood; and that this ordinance should be observed only by those who after examining themselves according to the commandment in I Corinthians 11, are assured by the Holy Spirit of their fitness.

12. We believe that the bodily return of our Lord Jesus to catch up His people to meet Him in the air, is imminent. 

13. We believe in the personal and the bodily return of our Lord Jesus to set up His Kingdom upon the Earth.

14. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost.