Our Beliefs

We believe there is one true, holy God, eternally existing in three Persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - each of Whom possess equally all the attributes of deity and the characteristics of personality. God is the Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer of the universe. 

God the Father operates throughout history to fulfill His redemptive purposes. He is the author of the plan of salvation. 

God the Son, Jesus Christ, is both fully God and fully man. He was born of a virgin, lived a life in perfect obedience to the Father, was without sin, and voluntarily atoned for the sins of all by dying on the cross. He rose from the dead, ascended to heaven, and sat down at the right hand of the Father where He is the Mediator between God and man. 

God the Holy Spirit was sent into the world by the Father and the Son to convict, correct, guide, and comfort. At the point of salvation, He permanently indwells every believer and becomes their source of comfort, strength, wisdom, and assurance of salvation. 

The basis of our belief is the Bible, composed of the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments. We believe Scripture originated with God and was written and recorded by men divinely inspired by God. The Bible speaks with the authority of God and reflects the backgrounds, cultures, lifestyles, and vocabularies of the human authors. The message of the Bible is God's instructions for living and shows us the way to salvation through Jesus Christ. 

The central purpose of God's revelation in Scripture is to call all people into fellowship with Him. Originally created to be in fellowship with God, humans defiled God and chose to go their own way. They were separated from God and suffered the corruption of their nature. Sin entered the world early in human history and all individuals since have suffered and are in need of the saving grace of God. 

The salvation of humanity is wholly the work of God's free grace though the blood of Jesus, not the result of human works or goodness. Every individual must personally accept salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. 

Heaven and hell are real places of eternal existence. God gives each human being free will to choose his or her destiny - either heaven by accepting the free gift of Christ or hell by rejecting it. 

A person who genuinely accepts salvation through Jesus Christ cannot lose his or her salvation. The true believer is secure in that salvation for eternity. Salvation is maintained by the grace and power of God, not by the self-effort of the Christian. 

We believe in baptism by immersion in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We believe that baptism does not save an individual, but rather is an outward show of the inward change made by Christ where we die to our flesh and are raised to walk in new life. 

We commemorate the death of Jesus through the observation of communion just as Jesus and the disciples did at the Last Supper. We believe that the bread is a representation of the body of Christ that was broken for us. We believe that the cup is the representation of the blood of Christ that brought us redemption. 

We believe that Jesus has tasked the church with spreading the good news. We believe we are called, through acts of servanthood, to spread the love of Christ into both our immediate community and to the world beyond. 

We believe that the family unit was ordained by God and that a biblical household consists of one man and one woman united in marriage.