DOCTRINAL STATEMENT

THE WORD OF GOD IS THE FOUNDATION OF EVERYTHING WE BELIEVE.

"What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us."

- A.W. Tozer

Believing the system of doctrine contained in the Scriptures, we maintain the following Doctrinal Statement:

THE WORD OF GOD

We believe in the divine inspiration and authority of the Scriptures. By this is meant a miraculous guidance of the Holy Spirit in their original writing, extending to all parts of the Scriptures equally, applying even to the choice of words, so the result is the very Word of God, the only infallible rule of faith and practice. Moreover, it is our conviction that God has exercised such singular care and providence through the ages in preserving the written Word, that the Scriptures as we now have them are essentially as originally given and contain all things necessary for salvation.

TRINITY

We believe in one God, revealed as existing in three persons – the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. These three are One God, the same in substance and equal in power and glory. We believe in the Holy Spirit as a divine Person, a personality distinct from the Father and the Son.

CREATION

We believe that God created out of nothing, by the power of his word, the existing space-time universe in six (twenty-four hour) days.

FALL OF MAN

We believe that, as through Adam and Eve’s temptation and deception by the created, angelic being named Satan, sin entered into the world, and death through sin, so death passed upon all men, for that all sinned.

SALVATION

We believe in the death of Jesus Christ as a true substitute, and that His death was a sufficient expiation for the guilt of all men. We believe that those who receive Christ by faith have been given new life from God. We believe that men are justified by faith alone and are accounted righteous before God only for the merit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

SECOND COMING

We believe in the visible, personal return of our Lord Jesus Christ for His Church, and then with His redeemed to establish a worldwide kingdom of righteousness and peace. We believe in the everlasting conscious blessedness of the redeemed and the conscious punishment of the unredeemed.