Our Doctrine

We believe that love for one another as Jesus loves the believer manifests our discipleship, proves our love for God and symbolizes our authority as a New Testament Church.  Love is therefore the great commandment of the LORD Jesus Christ upon which all others are dependent.  (Matt 22:35-40; John 13:34,34, 15:12; 1 John 4:7-21, 5:1-31; Rev. 2:4,5).

We believe in the infallible, verbal inspiration of the whole Bible and that the Bible is the all-sufficent rule of faith and practice.  (Psalm 119:150; 2 Tim 3:16,17)

We believe in the personal triune God: Father: Son and Holy Spirit, equal in divine perfection.  (Matt. 28:19)

We believe in the Genesis account of Creation.  (Gen. 1:2)

We believe that Satan is a fallen angel, the archenemy of God and man, the unholy god of this world, and that his destiny is an eternal lake of fire.  (Isa. 14:12-15; Ezek. 28:11-19; Matt. 25:41; 2 Cor. 4:4; Eph 6:10-17; Rev 20:10)

We believe in the virgin birth and sinless humanity of Jesus Christ.  (Matt.  1:18-20; 2 Cor 5:21; 1 Pet 2:22)

We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ.  (John 10:30; John 1:1,14, 2 Cor 5:19)

We believe in the Holy Spirit as the divine Administrator for Jesus Christ in His churches (Luke 24:49; John 14:16; Acts 1:4,5,8; Acts 2:1-4)

We believe that Man was created in the image of God and lived in innocence until he fell by voluntary transgression from his sinless state, the result being that all mankind are sinners.  (Gen 1:26, 3:6-24; Rom 5:12,19)

We believe that the suffering and death of Jesus Christ was substitutionary for all mankind and is efficacious only to those who believe.  (Isa 5:6; Heb 2:9; 1 Pet 2:24, 3:18; 1 John 2:2)

We believe that the bodily resurrection and ascension of Christ and the bodily resurrection of His saints.  (Matt 28: 1-7; Acts 1:9-11; 1 Cor 15:42-58; 1 Thes 4:13-18)

We believe in the premillennial, personal, bodily return of Christ as the crowning event of the Gentile age.  This event will include the resurrection of the righteous to eternal heaven, and the Millennium will be followed by the resurrection of the unrightous unto eternal punishment in the lake of fire and that the righteous shall enter into the heaven age.  (John 14: 1-6; 1 Thes 4:13-18; 2 Thes 2:8; Rev 20:11-15, 21:8)

We believe that the depraved sinner is saved wholly by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, and the requisites to regeneration are repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and that the Holy Spirit convicts sinners, regenerates, seals, secures and indwells every believer.  (Luke 13:3-5; John 3:16-18; Acts 20:21; Rom 6:23; Eph 2:8,9; John 3:6, 16:8,9; Rom 8:9-11; 1 or 6:19,20; Eph 4:30; Titus 3:5)

We believe that all who trust Jesus for salvation are eternally secure in Him and shall not perish.  (John 3:36, 5:24, 10:27-30; Rom 8:35-39; Heb 10:39; 1 Pet 1:5)

We believe that God deals with believers as His children, that He chastises the disobendient and that He rewards the obedient.  (Matt 16:27, 24:14-23; John 1:12; Heb 12:5-11; 2 John 8; Rev 22:12)

We believe that Jesus Christ established His church during His ministry on earth and that it is always a local , visible assembly of scripturally baptized believers in covenant relationship to carry out the Commission of the Lord Jesus Christ and each church is an independent, self-governing body, and not other ecclesiastical body may exercise authority over it.  We believe that Jesus Christ gave the Great Commission to the New Testament churches only and that He promised the perpetuity of His churches.  (Matt 4:18-22, 16:18, 28:19,20; Mark 1:14-20; John 1:35-51; Eph 3:21)

We believe that there are two pictorial ordinances in the Lord’s churches.  Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.  Scriptural baptism is the immersion of penitent believers in water, administered by the authority of a New Testament church in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  The Lord’s Supper is a memorial ordinance open to all born again believers.  (Matt 28:19,20; Acts 8:23, 38; Rom 6:4; 1 Cor 5:11-13, 11:1,2, 17-20, 26)

We believe that there are two divinely appointed offices in a church, pastors and deacons, to be filled by men whose qualifications are set forth in Titus and 1 Timothy.
We believe that all associations, fellowship and committees and properly should be servants of and under control of the churches.  (Matt 20:25-28)

We believe in freedom of worship without interference from the government and affirm our belief in civil obedience, unless the laws and regulations of civil government run contrary to the Holy Scriptures.  (Rom 13:1-7; 1 Pet 2:13-15)