We believe in the Holy Scripture; we accept
completely the writings of the Old and New Testaments as the Word of God,
totally inspired in all parts, our infallible and authoritative rule of
faith and practice.
We believe there is one God eternally existent in
three Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
We believe that the Holy Spirit convicts of sin,
makes believers children of God through new birth, assuring them of
Heaven, and by His indwelling enables Christians to live a godly life.
We believe that all men are by nature and choice
sinful and lost, and have within themselves no possible means of
salvation.
We believe in salvation by grace through faith; that
salvation is the free gift of God, not by any virtue or works of man, but
is received only by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; that all true
believers possess the gift of eternal life, a perfect righteousness,
sonship in the family of God, and divine guarantee that they shall never
perish.
We believe in the second coming of Jesus Christ; that
His return from Heaven will be personal, visible, and glorious, the time
being unrevealed but always imminent. When He comes we will first, by the
resurrection of the dead and the translation of the living, remove from
the earth His waiting Church; then pour out the righteous judgments of God
upon the unbelieving world. Then afterwards He will descend with His
church and establish His glorious and literal kingdom over all the nations
for a thousand years.
We believe in the priesthood of all believers; that
Christ is our Great High Priest and through Him every born again person
has direct access into God’s presence without the need of a human
priest; that the believer has the right and responsibility to personally
study and interpret the scriptures, guided by the Holy Spirit.
We believe that the spirits of the saved at death go
immediately to be with Christ in Heaven; that at His second coming their
works will be judged and rewards determined; that the spirits of the
unsaved at death descend immediately into Hades until the final day of
judgment, at which time their bodies shall be raised from the grave,
judged, and cast into Hell, the place of final and everlasting punishment.