WHAT WE BELIEVE
This Church is a congregation of baptized believers in Jesus Christ, having been baptized in the name of the Holy Trinity, united by covenant for the worship of Almighty God, associated in the faith and the fellowship of the Gospel to practice its precepts, to better understand it, to teach it to our children and all who would learn to train ourselves and our children in order that we may be better members of the Body of Christ, and to spread the Gospel to the ends of the earth.
Articles of Faith
The Bible
We believe that the Bible is the divinely and spiritually inspired Word of God without error; that it is the only guide for faith and practice of Christians; that it is the final authority in all spiritual matters (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:21).
Sin
We believe that through Adam, as well as by their own volition, all men have sinned and need a Savior (Romans 3:21-26; 5:12-21).
Salvation
We believe that salvation comes by the grace of God after repentance and through the new birth, which is experienced by exercising personal faith in the death of Jesus Christ. We further believe in the freeness of salvation to all who will believe (Ephesians 2:8; John 3:3; Revelation 22:17).
The Godhead
We believe in the Holy Trinity God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, each co-equal, and eternal (1 John 5:7; 1 Timothy 2:5; John 1:1-4).
The Person of Christ
We believe in the virgin birth of Jesus as set forth in the Gospels (Matthew 1:18).
The Ordinances
We believe the Ordinances of a New Testament Church are Baptism and the Lord’s Supper; that baptism is symbolic and rightly observed only when the candidate is immersed in water; that the Lord’s Supper should be observed only as a memorial of the suffering and death of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that only those who have been baptized scripturally should partake of it (Matthew 3:16-17; 26:28; Romans 6:4; 1 Corinthians 11:25-26).
Of a Gospel Church
We believe that the New Testament Church is a body of baptized believers banded together in a spiritual democracy; that each congregation is autonomous, and that Christ and He alone is the Head of the Church.
The Second Advent
We believe in the “hour which ye think not” Christ will make His personal and visible return (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17).