Statement of Faith

The Holy Bible is the record of God’s revelation of Himself to man. It is complete and without error. It is the true center of Christian union, perfect for instruction, and the standard for all conduct (Psalm 19:7-11; Psalm 119:11, 89, 105; 2 Timothy 3:15-17).

There is only one true God. He is the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe. He is infinite in all perfections and is deserving of our highest love and obedience. God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being (Deuteronomy 6:4; John 1:3; Colossians 1:16, 17; Matthew 6:9; John 8:36; John 14:26; 1 Corinthians 15:24-28).

God, as Father, reigns with providential care over His universe, His creatures, and the flow of the stream of human history according to the purposes of His grace. He is all powerful, all loving, and all wise. God is Father in truth to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus Chrsit. He is fatherly in His attitude toward all men (Genesis 1:1; 2:7; Exodus 3:14; 6:2-3; 15:11; 20:1; Leviticus 22:2; Deuteronomy 6:4; 32:6; 1 Chronicles 29:10; Psalm 19:1-3; Isaiah 43:3, 15; 64:8; Jeremiah 10:10; 17:13; Matthew 6:9; 7:11; 23:9; 28:19; Mark 1:9-11; John 4:24; 5:26; 14:6-13; 17:1-8; Acts 1:7; Romans 8:14-15; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Galatians 4:6; Ephesians 4:6; Colossians 1:15; 1 Timothy 1:17; Hebrews 11:6; 12:9; 1 Peter 1:17; 1 John 5:7).

Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God. In His incarnation, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin. Jesus perfectly took upon Himself a human nature, completely without sin. He made provision for the redemption of men from sin by His death on the cross. He was raised from the dead, and He ascended into heaven. He now resides in Heaven at the right hand of the Father as the living and ever-present Lord but will return in power and glory (Matthew 26:63-64; 1:18-20; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Romans 3:25-26; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4; Revelations 19:16; 1 Corinthians 15:24-28).

The Holy Spirit dwells in all believers as the promised Comforter and spiritual teacher and guides all believers in righteousness and matters of faith. The Holy Spirit is the agent God uses to convict man of sin, bring mankind to repentance, and seals the believer unto the day of redemption (Ephesians 4:30; Ephesians 1:13; Acts 2:4; John 14:16, 26).

Man was created by the special act of God in His own image. In the beginning, man was innocent of sin, but by his free choice, sinned against God, and, by so doing, brought sin into the human race. This inherited sin nature separates man from a relationship with God apart from God’s grace and redemption (Genesis 1:27; Genesis 2:7; Genesis 3).

Salvation is offered to all who confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. It is a change of heart wrought by the Holy Spirit through conviction of sin, to which the sinner responds in repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Salvation and an eternal relationship with God are solely the result of faith through the grace of God and not of works. Those whom God has accepted in Christ, and sanctified by His Spirit, will never fall away from the state of grace. (John 1:12; Romans 10:9-10; Ephesians 2:8-9; John 10:28-29)

A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is a local autonomous body of baptized believers under the Lordship of Jesus Christ (called the body of Christ) who are associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the Gospel, observing the two ordinances of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper, committed to His teaching, exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word, and seeking to extend the Gospel to the ends of the earth. Its Scriptural officers are pastors and elders. (Matthew 16:15-19; 18:15-20; Acts 2:41-42, 47; 5:11-14; 6:3-6; 13:1-3; 14:23, 27; Acts 15:1-30; 16:5; 20:28; Romans 1:7; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 3:16; 5:4-5; 7:17; 9:13-14; 12; Ephesians 1:22-23; 2:19-22; 3:8-11, 21; 5:22-32; Philippians 1:1; Colossians 1:18; 1 Timothy 3:1-15; 4:14).

Christian baptism is a symbolic act of obedience by the immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in an act of obedience symbolizing the believer’s faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Savior, the believer’s death to sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus.

The Lord’s Supper is how members of the church, through partaking of the bread and the fruit of the vine, memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipates His second coming.

(Matthew 3:13-17; 26:26-30; 28:19-20; Mark 1:9-11; 14:22-26; Luke 3:21-22; 22:19-20; John 3:23; Acts 2:41-42; 8:35-39; 16:30-33; 20:7; Romans 6:3-5; 1 Corinthians 10:16, 21; 11:23-29; Colossians 2:12)

The first day of the week commemorates the resurrection of Christ from the dead and is recognized as the Lord’s Day, a Christian “Sabbath” to be observed as a special day of resting as much as possible and as a person’s conscience will allow. If possible, we are to be employed in exercises of worship and spiritual devotion, both public and private, and to refrain from worldly amusements, and from secular employments except for works of necessity and works of mercy (Exodus 20:8-11; Matthew 12:1-12; 28:1; Mark 2:27-28; 16:1-7; Luke 24:1-3, 33-36; John 4:21-24; 20:1, 19-28; Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:1-2; Colossians 2:16; 3:16; Revelations 1:10).

We affirm the biblical teaching of Genesis 1:27 that “God created man in His own image; in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” We affirm that God created all of humanity with the specific gender identities of either biological male or biological female, and that He continues this process through biological reproduction, and these biologically determined genders, alone, determine true gender identity, and that God makes no mistakes.

God instituted marriage as the bonding together of one man (biological male) and one woman (biological female) in a single exclusive union. It is to be a representation of the relationship between Jesus Christ and His church (Ephesians 5:23-32). Since God is the One that created the institution of marriage and set its boundaries, we affirm that unions outside those boundaries do not constitute a “biblical marriage”.

We affirm God reserves sexual intimacy to be solely between that biological male (man) and that biological female (woman) who are united in marriage to each other (1 Corinthians 6:18; 7:2-5; Hebrews 13:4). We affirm that any and all forms of sexually immoral conduct, including but not limited to adultery, fornication, homosexuality, bisexuality, bestiality, incest, polygamy, prostitution, use of pornography, pedophilia, premarital sexual intimacy, cross dressing, and any attempt to change one’s biological gender or disagree with one’s biological gender are sinful and offensive to God (Matthew 15:18-20; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10).

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