WHAT WE BELIEVE

BIBLE

We believe the Bible to be the complete Word of God.

• That the 66 books of the Old and New Testament were inspired by the Spirit of God as originally written
• That the Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and conduct · 2 Timothy 3:16

GOD

We believe in one God, Creator of all, holy, sovereign, eternal, existing in three equal Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit

JESUS CHRIST

We believe in the absolute and essential deity of our Lord Jesus Christ

• In His eternal existence, with the Father in pre-incarnate glory
• In His work of creation, in His virgin birth, sinless life, substitutionary death and bodily resurrection
• In His triumphant ascension, mediatorial ministry, and personal return

THE HOLY SPIRIT

We believe in the absolute and essential deity, and in the personality of the Holy Spirit

• Who convicts of sin, of righteousness and of judgment
• Who regenerates, indwells, seals, sanctifies, illuminates, and comforts those who believe in Jesus Christ
• Who baptizes believers and bestows upon them His gifts sovereignly as He wills and fills those yielded to Him

MANKIND

We believe that Adam was divinely created in the image of God

• That by the sin of disobedience he fell from that state
• That all his posterity inherited spiritual depravity and defilement
• That all men, therefore, are guilty before God and condemned to physical and spiritual death

SALVATION

We believe that salvation is by the sovereign grace of God

• That by the Father, Christ voluntarily suffered a propitiatory death
• That justification is by faith alone in the all-sufficient sacrifice and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ
• We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved into the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
• We believe we are in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.
• We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ-His Universal church