BELIEFS

  • BIBLE

    Everything begins and ends with the Word of God. It is the standard in which all humanity determines all doctrinal truth. The Bible is the inspired, infallible, and inerrant Word of God which means it is perfect without error. It is our love letter from God to communicate His love and mercy for us. It reveals the principles by which God desires us to live for His Glory. It is the supreme standard for all human morality and religious opinions. The Scriptures supersede the opinions and thoughts of man and philosophy. Every other belief on this pages stems from the Word.

    (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21; Proverbs 30:5; Romans 16:25-26)

  • THE TRINITY

    There is ONE God, who is eternally existent in three person; God the Father; God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. All three persons of God are co-equal and co-eternal. (1 John 5:7; Matthew 28:18-19; Isaiah 9:6).

    Each person of God is part of God and is not a separate deity. God exist as one in the role of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Just as water exist as one in three forms liquid, vapor, and solid. They exists together from one.

    (John 1:1,14; Isaiah 9:6; Philippians 2:5-6; 1 Timothy 2:5)

  • JESUS CHRIST

    Jesus is God the Son. On earth, Jesus was 100% God and 100% man. He is the only man ever to have lived a sinless life. He was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, performed miracles, died on the cross for mankind and thus, atoned for our sins through the shedding of His blood. He rose from the dead on the third day according to the Scriptures, ascended to the right hand of the Father, and will return again in power and glory.

    (John 1:1,14, 20:28; I Timothy 3:16; Isaiah 9:6; Philippians 2:5-6; I Timothy 2:5).

  • SALVATION

    We are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ; His death, burial, and resurrection. Salvation is a gift from God, not a result of our good works or of any human efforts. It is Grace plus nothing that equals salvation. It is the most precious gift any human can ever receive.

    (Ephesians 2:8-9; Galatians 2:16, 3:8; Titus 3:5; Romans 10:9-10; Acts 16:31; Hebrews 9:22)

  • HOLY SPIRIT

    The Holy Spirit is fully divine. He inspired men to write the Scriptures. It is the Holy Spirit that guides, illuminates, convicts, comforts, draws, and bestows spiritual gifts. He seals the believer and fills the believer.

    Matthew 1:18; 3:16; 4:1; 12:28-32; 28:19; Mark 1:10,12; Luke 1:35; 4:1,18-19; 11:13; 12:12; 24:49; John 4:24; 14:16-17,26; 15:26; 16:7-14; Acts 1:8; 2:1-4,38; 4:31; 5:3; 6:3; 7:55; 8:17,39; 10:44; 13:2; 15:28; 16:6; 19:1-6;

  • THE GIFTS

    The Holy Spirit is manifested through a variety of spiritual gifts to build the church and confirm the power of the gospel. All believers are given gifts and are commanded to use these gifts to glorify God and to build the Church. These gifts should be properly used in accordance to the scriptures and should not be ignored or abused in violation of Biblical parameters.

    (Hebrews 2:4; Romans 1:11, 12 :4-8; Ephesians 4:16; 2 Timothy 1:5-16, 4:14; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31, 14:1-40; 1 Peter 4:10)

  • THE CHURCH

    The church is the Body of Christ and the Bride of Christ in which He will someday return to claim. Every person who is born of the Spirit is an integral part of the church as a member of the body of believers. There is a spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. Each congregation operated under the Lordship of the Virgin born Christ and are unified by the Holy Spirit. The church is made up of all ages, races, and cultures under the same salvation through Christ.

    (Ephesians 1:22, 2:19-22; Hebrews 12:23; John 17:11, 20-23)

  • THE KINGDOM

    The Kingdom of God includes both His general sovereignty over the universe and His particular kingship over men who willfully acknowledge Him as King. Particularly the Kingdom is the realm of salvation into which men enter by trustful, childlike commitment to Jesus Christ. Christians ought to pray and to labor that the Kingdom may come and God’s will be done on earth. The full consummation of the Kingdom awaits the return of Jesus Christ and the end of this age.

    Matthew 3:2; 4:8-10,23; 12:25-28; 13:1-52; 26:29; Mark 1:14-15; 9:1; Luke 4:43; 8:1; 9:2; 17:20-21; John 3:3; 18:36; Revelation 1:6,9; 5:10; 11:15; 21-22.

  • THE RESURRECTION

    Jesus Christ was physically resurrected from the dead in a glorified body three days after His death on the cross. In addition, both the saved and the lost will be resurrected at the rapture; they that are saved to the resurrection of life and they that are lost to the resurrection of eternal damnation.

    (Luke 24:16, 36, 39; John 2:19-21, 20:26-28, 21:4; Acts 24:15; I Corinthians 15:42, 44; Philippians 1:21-23, 3:21).

  • HEAVEN

    Heaven is the eternal dwelling place for all believers in the Gospel of Jesus Christ

    (Matthew 5:3, 12, 20, 6:20, John 17:24; 2 Corinthians 5:1; Hebrews 11:16)

  • HELL

    Hell is the eternal dwelling place for all who reject faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

    (Matthew 25:41; Hebrews 9:27; Revelation 14:9-11, 20:12-15, 21:8)

  • SECOND COMING

    Jesus Christ will physically and visibly return to earth for the second time to establish His Kingdom.

    (Matthew 26:63-64; Acts 1:9-11; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-8; Revelation 1:7

  • WATER BAPTISM

    Following faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the new convert is commanded by the Word of God to be baptized in water. Biblical baptism is by immersion in water of someone who has experienced salvation through Christ.

    (Matthew 28:19; Acts 2:38; Mark 16:16; Acts 8:12, 36-38; 10:47-48).

  • MARRIAGE

    Marriage is defined in the scriptures as a covenant, a sacred bond between one man and one woman, instituted by and publicly entered into before God. God is the author of marriage and the only authority by which it may be defined.

    (Matthew 19:4-6).

  • ESSENTIALS

    In addition to the essential beliefs found on this page there are non-essential beliefs. In the essentials we stand in faith and in non-essentials we stand in liberty.

    (Romans 14:1, 4, 12, 22; 1 Corinthians 10:23-4)