Beliefs
Our Core Values
God is sovereign.
Preaching is the means by which God chose to present His message of
salvation to the world.
Worship is all about God and not about us.
Prayer is the activity by which forgiven man communicates with God who is righteous
for the purpose of knowing His will.
The Bible is God’s authoritative Word for our lives.
Missions is living and supporting the gospel within our realm of influence.
The Christian Life is lived out within a community of like believers and encouragers.
What We Believe
What We Believe About the Bible
- The Bible is the inspired Word of God, written without error
and preserved for our instruction
(1 Corinthians 2:7-14; 2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21).
What We Believe About God
- God exists eternally in three persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit
(Matthew 28:19; John 14:16-26). - God is the absolute and sole creator of this world and the universe
(Genesis 1:1-2:25; John 1:1-4). - God, because of His compelling love, sent Jesus Christ into the world to save
sinners by His atoning death on Calvary
(Isaiah 53:1-6; John 3:16; Romans 5:8; Ephesians 1:3-6).
What We Believe About Jesus Christ
- Jesus Christ in the flesh was both God and man.
- He was born of a virgin and lived a sinless life.
- He revealed the mind of God in his teaching and performed miracles
exactly as described in the four gospels. - He was crucified, died as the penalty for our sins and was raised
from the dead, bodily, on the third day. - He ascended to the Father; He is head of the church and intercedes for believers.
- He is coming again personally, bodily and visibly to this earth.
(Philippians 2:5-8; Luke 1:26-35; Hebrews 4:14-15; 1 Peter 2:21-24;
1 Corinthians 15:3-5; Acts 1:9-11; Ephesians 1:18-23;
1 Thessalonians 4:15-16; John 14:1-6).
What We Believe About Salvation
- Man's relationship with God has been broken by his own sin.
- We can be restored to a relationship with God only through the sacrificial
blood of Jesus Christ. Apart from Christ, man remains eternally separated
from God, and is ultimately consigned to hell. - This restored relationship is based on God's grace, not our efforts.
- God invites us to accept His gift of grace through faith in Jesus Christ.
- A repentant life, a confession of Christ's Lordship, and Biblical baptism
are primary responses of our faith as modeled in the New Testament.
(John 3:1-21; Acts 2:37-39, 8:26-39, 10:1-48, 16:11-34, 22:2-16; Romans 3:21-31,
5:6-11, 6:1-23; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, 15:1-58; Galatians 3:13-14; Ephesians 2:8-9;
Hebrews 9:11-14, 10:10-13; 1 Peter 3:18; 1 John 1:8-10).
What We Believe About Life filled by the Holy Spirit
- The Holy Spirit lives by promise in the life of the Christian as God's pledge
and seal of salvation (John 16:8-11,13-15; Acts 2:38, 5:3-4; Romans 8 & 9). - The Christian is enabled to grow in spiritual maturity through obedience to the
Word of God by the indwelling Spirit
(Ephesians 4:11-16; Colossians 1:9-12, 3:12-17). - At death, the Christian's spirit departs to be with Jesus Christ. At the return
of our Lord our bodies will be raised to the likeness of His resurrected body and
will live forever in the presence of God (Luke 16:19-31;
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 1 Corinthians 15:1-58).