Doctrinal Statment

The Holy Scriptures

We believe that the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the verbally and plenary inspired Word of God. The Scriptures are inerrant, infallible and God-breathed. They are the final authority for all matters of faith and practice. The sixty-six books of the Old and New Testament are the complete and divine revelation of God to man. As for our church and all who preach and teach from it’s pulpit, we choose to use the King James version. (2 Tim. 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21)


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 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 Corinthians 9:17; 2 Corinthians 3:9-18; Galatians 3:13-25; Ephesians 1:10; Colossians 1:24-25,27; Revelation 20:2-6.)


The Godhead

We believe in one God that reveals Himself eternally in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - each coeternal in being, identical in nature, equal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections. (Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14; John 1:1; 14:10,26.)

 

The Person and Work of Jesus Christ

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man, without ceasing to be God, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin so he might reveal God and redeem sinful men.  (Isaiah 7:14; 9:6; Luke 1:35; John 1:1-3,14; 2 Corinthians 5:19-21; Galatians 4:4-5; Philippians 2:5-8.)

  • We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished the work of redemption through His willful death upon Calvary’s Cross as a representative, vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice. Our justification is made sure by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead.  (Acts 2:18-36; Romans 3:24-25; 1 Peter 2:24; Ephesians 1:7; 1 Peter 1:3-5.)
  • We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to heaven, and is now exalted at the right hand of God, where as our High Priest, He fulfills the ministry of intercessor and advocate. (Acts1:9-10; Hebrews 9:24; 7:25; Romans 8:34; 1 John 2:1-2)


The Person and the Work of the Holy Spirit

  • We believe that the Holy Spirit is a person who convicts the world of sin, and righteousness, and of judgments; and that he is the Supernatural Agent in regeneration, baptizing all believers into the body of Christ, indwelling and sealing them unto the day of redemption. (John 16:8-11; Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 12:12-14; 2 Corinthians 3:6; Ephesians 1:13-14.)
  • We believe that He is the Divine Teacher who assists believers to understand and appropriate the Scriptures and that it is the privilege and duty of all the saved to be filled with the Spirit. (Ephesians 1:17-18; 5:18; 1 John 2:20; 27.)
  • We believe that God is sovereign in the bestowal of Spiritual gifts to every believer. God, through His Holy Spirit, uniquely uses evangelists, pastors, and teachers to equip believers to fulfill the work of the ministry. (Romans 12:3-8; 1 Corinthians 12:4-11; Ephesians 4:7-12.)
  • We believe that the modern reliance on the sign gifts of healing is contrary to the panoply of Scripture. We believe that the miracle of speaking in tongues was used by God as a sign for the Jews and the Jewish nations and are known languages not corporate babbling. It is also not a sign of the infilling of the Holy Spirit or “second blessing.” We also believe that ultimate deliverance of the body from sickness and death awaits the consummation of our salvation in the resurrection, through God frequently chooses to answer prayers for physical healing. (1 Corinthians 1:22; 13:18; 14:21-22; Acts 2.)


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 sinful nature, and became alienated from God; and, that man is totally depraved, and of himself utterly unable to remedy his lost condition. (Genesis 1:26-27; Romans 3; 5:12; 6:23; Ephesians 2:1-2; 4:17-19.)


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.  (1 John 1:12; 2:8-10; 1 Peter 1:4-5.)


Eternal Security

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; Romans 8:1, 38-39; 1 Corinthians 1:4-8; 1 Peter 1:4-5)


 The Church

  • We believe that the local church, which is the body and the espoused bride of Christ, is solely made up of born-again persons. (1 Corinthians 12:12-14; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 1:22-23; 5:25-27.)
  • We believe that the establishment and continuance of local churches is clearly taught and defined in the New Testament Scriptures.  (Acts 14:27; 29:17; 28-32; 1 Timothy 3:1-3; Titus 1:5-11.)
  • We believe in the absolute autonomy of the local church free of any external authority and control.  (Acts 13:1-4; 15:19-31; 20-28; Romans 16:1; 1 Corinthians 3:9; 1 Peter 5:1-4.)
  • We believe that all individuals that express interest in membership must have been baptized (immersion) by a local body of like faith and practice or by the local church he/she wishes to join.  (Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 2:41-42; 18:18; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26.)
  • We believe that the Lord’s Supper is to be recognized by saved born-again believers administered by a local New Testament Church.  We shall recognize the Lord’s Supper as Close and not Closed.  (Exodus 12; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26.)


Separation

We believe that all the saved should live in such a manner as not to bring reproach upon their Saviour and Lord; and, that separation from all religious apostasy, all worldly and sinful pleasures, practices, and associations is commanded of God. (Romans 12:1-2; 14:13; 2 Corinthians 6:14-17; 2 Timothy 3:1-5; 1 John 2: 15-17; 2 John 9-11.)


The Second Advent of Christ

We believe that “blessed hope,” the personal, imminent return of Christ who will rapture His church prior to Daniel’s Seventieth Week (Tribulation).  At the end of the Tribulation, Christ will personally and visibly return with His saints, to establish His earthly Messianic Kingdom, which was promised to the nation of Israel.  (Psalm 89:3-4; Daniel 2:31-45; Zechariah 14:4-11; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; Titus 2:13; Revelation 3:10; 19:11-16; 20:1-6.)


The Eternal State

We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life, and the unsaved to eternal judgment and everlasting punishment. (Matthew 25:46; John 5:28; 11:24-26; Revelation 20:5-6.)


The Personality of Satan

We believe that Satan is a person, the author of sin and the cause of the Fall of Man; that he is the open and declared enemy of God and man; and, that he shall be eternally punished in the Lake of Fire.  (Job 1:6-7; Isaiah 14:12-17; Matthew 4:2-11; Revelation 20:10.)


Creation

We believe that God created the cosmos (Universe) in six literal, 24-hour periods.  We reject the teaching of evolution, the Gap Theory, the Day-Age Theory, and all forms of Theistic evolution as unscriptural theories of origin.  (Genesis 1-2; Exodus 20:11.)


Civil Government

We believe that God has ordained and created all authority consisting of three basic institutions:

  • The home
  • The church
  • The government

Every person is subject to these authorities, but all (including the authorities themselves) are answerable to God and are governed by His Word.  The home, the church, and the government are equal and sovereign in their respective Biblically assigned spheres of responsibility under God.  (Romans 13:1-7; Ephesians 5:22-24; Hebrews 13:17; 1 Peter 2: 13-14.)