1. God the Father
   We believe in God the Father, perfect in holiness, boundless in Love, infinite in wisdom, and measureless in power. We believe that He concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of men, that He hears and answers prayers, and that He saves from sin and eternal death all who come to Him though Jesus Christ, His Son.
   

   Genesis 1:1 Exodus 20:2,3 Deut. 4:35

   Isaiah 45:6,18 Isaiah 46:9 Matthew 3:16,17

   I Corinthians 8:6 Ephesians 1:3-10 Ephesians 4:3-6

   
   
2. God the Son
   We believe in God the Son, Jesus Christ, pre-existent with the Father, begotten by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary: that He became man without ceasing to be God, that His mission was to reveal the Father and to reconcile man by His substitutionary atonement for the sins of mankind by His death on the cross. We believe in His sinless nature and life, that His teachings are infallible and without error. We believe in His bodily resurrection, His ascension to Heaven, His perpetual intercession for His people and His glorious second advent according to promise.
   

   Isaiah 7:14 Isaiah 9:6 Daniel 3:25 Jude 14,15

   Matthew 1:18-25 Matthew 28:6 Luke 1:35 Rev. 20:2-6

   John 1:1,2,14 John 8:56 John 14:3,9 I Peter 2:22

   II Cor. 5:19 Galatians 4:4,5 I Thess. 4:16-18

   
   
   
3. God the Holy Spirit
   We believe in the full deity and the personality of the Holy Spirit and that He was sent to convict the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgement. We furthermore believe that He is the Supernatural Agent in regeneration, baptizing all believers into the body of Christ at the moment of salvation and indwellls, comforts, convicts, and seals the believer unto the day of redemption. (John 16:8-11; Romans 8:9; 1 Cor. 12:12-14; Ephesians 1:13-14)

(C) Spritual Gifts
We believe that the sign gifts of the Holy Spirit, such as speaking in tongues and the gift of healing, were temporary signs to the unbelieving Jew. We believe the"sign gifts" are no longer in effect. We believe that speaking in tongues was never the common or necessary sign of the baptism or filling of the Holy Spirit and that ultimate deliverance of the body from sickness or death awaits the consummation of our salvation in the resurrection, though God frequently chooses to answer the prayers of believers for physical healing (1 Cor. 1:22; 13:8; 14:21,22).

(D) The Personality of Satan
We believe that Satan is a real person, who though having been created in a state of perfection and enjoying a heavenly abode with God, through pride lost his original state and led a rebellion of other angels in his revolt, and that he is the author of sin and the cause of the Fall of Man. We believe he is the open and declared enemy of God and man; that he is disguised as an angel of light; and that he shall be eternally punished in the lake of Fire (1 Chron. 21:1; Job 1:6-12; Isaiah 14:12-17; Rev. 12:3,4; Ezek. 28:12-15; 2 Cor 11:14; Matt. 4:2-11; Rev. 20:1-3, 10).

(E) Dispensationalism
We believe that the Scriptures interpreted in their natural, literal sense reveal divinely determined dispensations or rules of life which define man's responsibilities in successive ages. These dispensations are not various ways of salvation, but rather are divinely ordered stewardships by which God directs man according to His purpose. Three of these dispensations--the law, the church, and the kingdom--are the subjects of detailed revelation in Scripture (Genesis 1:28; 1 Cor. 9:17; 2 Cor. 3:9-18; Galatians 3:13-25; Ephesians 1:10; 3:2-10; Colossians 1:24-27; Rev. 20:2-6).

(F) The Total Depravity of Man.
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam's sin the human race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God; and that man is totally depraved, and, of himself, utterly unable to remedy his lost condition (Gen. 1:26-27; Rom.3:22-23; 5:12; 6:23; Eph. 2; 1-3; 4:17-19).

(G) Salvation.
We believe that salvation is the gift of God brought to man by grace and received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ's substitutionary death on the cross, His burial, and His resurrection from the dead, Whose precious blood was shed on Calvary for the forgiveness of our sins (John 1:12, Eph. 1:7; 2:8-10; 1Pet. 1:18-19).

(H) Repentance and Faith
We believe that repentance and faith are solemn obligations and also inseperable graces wrought in our souls by the quickening Spirit of God; thereby, being deeply concvicted of our guilt, danger, and helplessness, and of the way of salvation of Christ, we turn to God from our sin with unfeigned contrition, confession, and supplication for mercy--at the same time receiving the Lord Jesus Christ as our only all-sufficient Savior.

(I) The Eternal Security and Assurance of Believers

1. We believe that all the redeemed, once saved, are kept by God's power and are thus secure in Christ forever (John 6:37-40; 10:27-30; Rom. 8:1, 38-39; 1 Cor. 1:4-8; 1 Pet.1:4-5)
2. We believe that it is the privilege of believers to rejoice in the assurance of their salvation through the testimony of God's Word, which, however, clearly forbids the use of Christian Liberty as an occasion to the flesh (Rom. 13:13-14; Gal. 5:13; Titus 2:11-15)

1. We believe that the local church of Christ is a congregation of baptized believers associated by a covenant of faith and fellowship of the Gospel, observing the ordinances of Jesus Christ, governed by His laws, and excercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word (1 Cor.12:12-14; 2 Cor. 11:2; Eph. 1:22-23; 5:25-27).
2. We believe that the establishment and continuance of local churches is clearly taught and defined in the New Testament Scriptures (Mt.16:18, Acts 14:27; 20:17, 28-32; 1 Tim. 3:1-13; Titus 1:5-11).
3. We believe in the autonomy of the local church; that it has the absolute right of self-government, free from any interfence of any hierarchy of individuals or organizations; that the one and only superintendent is the Lord Jesus Christ; and that in all matters of membership, policy, government, discipline, and benevolence, the will of the local church is final (Acts 13:1-4; 15:19-31; 20:28; Rom. 16:1,4; 1 Cor. 3:9, 16; 5:4-7, 13: 1 Peter 5:1-4).
4. We recognize water baptism and the Lord's Supper as the only Scriptural ordinances of obedience for the church in this age. Further we believe that water baptism is only by immersion and confers upon the recipient no saving grace but rather it is a solemn and beautiful emblem of faith in the crucified, buried, and risen Saviour and that it (baptism) is a prerequisite to the privileges of church membership and access to the Lord's Supper. Further, we believe the Lord's Supper does not involve transubstantiation and that it does not confer saving grace to the recipient but rather is a commemoration of the members of the local church of the death of the Lord Jesus Christ (Matt. 28:19-20; Acts 2:41-42; 1 Cor. 11:23-26).

1. We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life and the unsaved to judgement and everlasting punishment (Matt 25:46; John 5:28,29; 11:25,26; Rev. 20:1-6).
2. We believe that the souls of the redeemed are, at death, absent from the body and present with the Lord, where in conscious bliss they await the first resurrection, when spirit, soul and body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord (Luke 23:43; 2 Cor. 5:8; Phil 1:23; 3:21; 1 Thess 4:16-17; Rev. 20:4-6).
3. We believe that the souls of unbelievers remain, after death, in conscious punishment and torment by fire until the second resurrection, when with soul and body reunited they shall appear at the Great White Throne Judgement, and shall be cast into the Lake of Fire, not to be annihilated, but to suffer everlasting conscious punishment and torment. We believe the fire spoken of in the Bible to be a real literal flame that burns yet does not consume (Matt 25:41-46; Mark 9:43-48; Luke 16:19-26; 2 Thess. 1:7-9; Jude 6-7; Rev. 20:11-15).

1. We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman. We believe that any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, bestiality, incest, fornication, adultery, and pornography are sinful perversions of God's gift of sex. Any employee of the church becoming pregnant or causing pregnancy as a result of consensual intercourse, outside of marriage relationship, shall be terminated from employment (Gen. 2:24; Gen. 19:5, 13; 26:8-9; Lev. 18:1-30; Rom. 1:26-29; 1 Cor. 5:1; 6:9; 1 Thess. 4:1-8; Heb. 13:40).
2. We believe that the only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one woman (Gen. 2:24; Rom. 7:2; 1 Cor. 7:10; Eph. 5:22,23).