We believe in the verbal and plenary inspiration of the Scriptures. We accept that the Scriptures are inerrant and should serve as the Christian’s only authority for faith and practice (2 Tim. 3:16, 17).

We believe that God exists equally in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (Gen. 1:1; Jn. 1:1; Acts 5:1-4; 1 Jn. 5:7).

We believe in the virgin birth, sinless life, physical death, and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ (Matt. 1:23; 2 Cor. 5:21; 1 Cor. 15:2-4).

We believe in the eternal salvation freely provided by God, to all who personally trust in Jesus Christ alone for the forgiveness of their sins and life everlasting (Jn. 6:47; 14:6; Acts 4:10-12; Eph. 2:8).

We believe that the Holy Spirit indwells all true believers, empowering them to do the will of God on earth, and sealing them until the day of their redemption (1 Cor. 6:19; Eph. 4:30). We believe that the baptism of the Holy Spirit refers to a believer’s salvation and does not represent a second work of grace evidenced by speaking in tongues. We believe that the teaching gifts of tongues and the interpretation of tongues are not valid manifestations of public ministry in the local church (1 Cor. 13:8-10).

We believe that the Local Church is God’s divinely chosen institution for this time, given the responsibility of evangelizing the lost and edifying the saved (1 Cor. 12:1-26; Eph. 4:11-16). The Church’s leadership is Biblically defined as that of pastors and assisted by deacons (1 Tim. 3:1-13; Tit. 1:5-9). Its ordinances are baptism by immersion, and the Lord’s Supper or communion (Matt. 28:19 cf. Col. 2:12; 1 Cor. 11:23-32).

We believe that angels exist as the ministering agents of God, while Satan and his demons exist to hinder and corrupt the work of God on this earth (Heb. 1:13, 14; 2 Cor.4:3,4).

We believe in the rapture of all believers prior to the Great Tribulation Period (1 Thess. 4:13-17). We believe in the personal, visible, and premillennial return of the Lord Jesus Christ (Rev. 19:1-20:9).

We believe that all who are saved will spend an eternity of conscious blessedness with God in heaven; and all those who reject the message of the Gospel in this life will suffer an eternity of conscious torment in hell (2 Cor. 5:1; 2 Thess. 1:7- 9).