Statement of Faith

This church holds the following statement of faith as being a summary of Christian doctrine whose authority consists in its agreement with the word of God.

1. The Scriptures

We believe in the verbal, plenary inspiration of both the Old and New Testaments, inerrant in the original writings, preserved in the Received Text, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and practice. (I| Tim 3:16,17; 1 Pet 1:19-21). We reject corrupt translations based on the Alexandrian text; and insist upon the use of the King James Translations in presenting the program of the church.

2. The Godhead

We believe in the true God, eternally existing in Three Persons; father, Son, and Holy Spirit. These three are one God, having precisely the same nature, attributes, and perfections. (Gen 1:1, 1:26; Mat 3:16, 17; 28:19, 20; In 10:30; I Cor 13:14; Rom 8:9).

3. The Lord Jesus Christ

We believe in: a) His pre-incarnate existence as the eternal Son of God (Heb 1:8): b) His incarnation by means of the Virgin Birth (Isa 7:14; Lk 2:35); C) His death upon the cross as the substitutionary atonement for sin (Matt 20:28; Heb 9:14); d) His literal bodily resurrection from the dead (L 24:36-43; Acts 10:40, 41); e) His present ministry of intercession in Heaven (Heb 1:3,7:25, 8:1-2; 1 Jn 2:1); f) His personal return to earth (Acts 1:11; I Thess 4:16; Col 2:9; Mt 26:64).

4. The Holy Spirit

We believe that the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Godhead, convicts men of sin (In 16:8); regenerates, indwells, and seals all believers (1 Cor 3:16; Eph 1:12,14); sets apart yielded believers unto a holy life; keeps and empowers believers day by day; that He is the teacher of the Wo r d of god and guide for our daily life. We believe that a Christian should be filled with the Holy Spirit as evidenced by the fruit of the Sprit (Eph 5:18-20; Gal 5:22-23). Anyone who does not have the Spirit living in him is not a child of God (Rom 8:9).

5. Creation

We believe in the Genesis account of creation, and that it is to be accepted literally, and not allegorically or figuratively; that man created directly in God’s own image and that man’s creation was not a matter of evolution or development from lower to higher forms; that all animal and vegetable life was made directly in God’s established law was that they should bring forth only “after their kind”. (Gen 1:1; 1:26, 27; 2:21-23; 1:24; Mk 10:6).

6. The Fall of Man

We believe that Adam was created in innocence (Gen 1:26), but by voluntary disobedience fell from his sinless and happy state (Rom 5:19), in consequence of which all mankind are now sinners, not by constraint but choice (Rom 5:12), being by nature (as Adam’s descendants) utterly void of that holiness required by law of God, positively inclined to evil, and therefore under just condemnation of eternal ruin without defense or excuse (Rom 21:32).

7. Satan

We believe in the reality and personality of Satan (Job 1:6-9; Mat 4:1-11; Pet 5:8; James 4:7). We are to resist Satan’s hindering power by putting on the whole armor of God (Eph 6:10-18).

8. Salvation

We believe that: a) Salvation is solely by grace through faith in the blood sacrifice, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ the Son of God. B) All who receive Him are regenerated by the Holy Spirit and become children of God. (Eph 2:8-9; Jn 1:1,13). C) Al who are truly saved are kept forever (In 10:28; Rom 8:33-39; Eph 1:1314; | Pet 1:5: Jn 5:24). D) However, God cannot overlook sin in His children and will chasten and correct them in love (Heb 12:5-8; 1 Cor 11:32).

9. The Church

We believe that: a) The Church in its invisible form is like the Body of Christ, which is composed of all “who by one spirit have been baptized into one body” (Cor 12:13). b) It is God’s plan that the local visible church should be the supreme basis for fellowship of believers and the primary agency through which the commission for spreading the gospel is accomplished (Acts 2:42,47: Mat 28:19,20). C) The local church should be composed of only regenerated baptized believers who voluntarily unite together for worship, edification, fellowship, service, and the evangelization of the lost throughout the world. (Eph 1:1a-16). d) The local church has the absolute right to self-government, free from all interference is Christ, directing through the Holy Spirit. e) on all matters of membership, of policy of government, of benevolence, the will of the local church is final (Acts 2:41-47; 5:1-20.)

10. The Ordinances

We believe that Christ only gave two ordinances to the Church to be observed “till He come”. 1) The Lord’s Supper. It was left us as an ordinance by the Lord Himself (1 Cor 11:23-26) for a memorial of his death until He comes and should not be taken unworthily but with the examination of one’s life (1 Cor 11:27, 28). 2) Believers Baptism. We believe that Christian baptism is the immersion in water of a believer, in the name of the FATHER, and Son, and Holy Ghost to show forth, in a solemn and beautiful emblem, the believer’s death to sin and resurrection to a new life by faith in the crucified, buried, and risen Saviour (Rom 6:4; Mat 28:19).

11. Separation

We believe it is our duty to call the attention of believers to scriptural teaching of separation and that we should abstain from worldly practices and live a life devoted unto the Lord (Rom 12:1,2; I Cor 7:1; Titus 2:1-15; Il Cor 6:14-17; 1 Thess 5:22; Deu 22:5).

12. Sexuality

We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of marriage between a man and a woman. Any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, bestiality, incest, fornication, or adultery are sinful perversions of God’s gift of sex. No one participating in such acts is permitted membership, nor will any activities, ceremonies or events promoting such acts are allowed on Church property.

13. The Grace of Giving

Scriptural giving is one of the fundamentals of the Faith. “Therefore as ye abound in everything; in faith, utterance, knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also” (i Cor 8:7). This grace of giving is further explained in I Cor 16:2 “Upon the first day of the week let everyone of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.” Under grace we give, and do not pay, the tithe:Abraham GAVE the tenth part of all…Abraham GAVE the tenth of the spoils” (Heb 7:2, 4). This was four hundred years before the law. The tithe is confirmed in the New Testament. Jesus said concerning the tithe (or tenth), “These ought ye to have done” (Matt 23:23). “The tithe is the Lord’s” (LEV 27:30; Mal 3:8-10).

14. Missions 

Because all men everywhere without Christ are lost and bound for the eternal punishment (Rom 1:18-20), and because men cannot believe in Him of whom the responsibility of giving them the Gospel. Jesus left us the command that we Gospel to every place where men are to be found (Matt 28:19; Mk 16:15; Lk 24:46-48; In. 20:21). We believe that to carry out this command we must ourselves be witnesses by life and word to tell all lost men about Christ and we must support by prayer and financial aid those who go out under sound missionary agencies to represent us in other parts of the world.

15. Civil Government 

We believe the civil government is of divine appointment for the interests and good order of human society: and that magistrates are to be prayed for, conscientiously honored, and obeyed, except only in things opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who is the only Lord of Kings of earth (Rom 13:1-7; Mat 22:21; Acts 5:29).

16. The Future 

We believe a) In the personal, imminent, premillennial, pretribulational return of Jesus Christ to the earth. b)That He will come for His saints to gather them unto Himself and seven years later with His saints to judge the nations and to establish His Messianic kingdom (I Thess 4:16, 17; Il Thess 1:7-9). c) That the just will be bodily resurrected and consciously enjoy the presence of Jesus Christ forever. d) That one thousand years later the lost will be bodily resurrected and consciously suffer everlasting punishment in the Lake of Fire (Rev 20:1-15).