The Holy Scriptures
We believe the Holy Scriptures, all 66 books of the Old and New Testaments, to be the verbal, plenary, inspired Word of God, the only sufficient, complete, and final authority for faith and practice, inerrant in the original writings, infallible and God-breathed (2 Tim. 3:16, 17; 2 Peter 1:20, 21; Matt. 5:18; John 16:12, 13).

The Godhead
We believe in one Triune God, Creator of all things, eternally existent in three distinct persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – coeternal in being, coequal in power, and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections (Deut. 6:4; 2 Cor. 13:14; Col. 1:16).

The Person and Work of Christ
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, without ceasing to be God, became man, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary in order that He might reveal God and be the sole Redeemer of sinful man (John 1:1-2, 14; Luke 1:35).

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross for all mankind as a representative, vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice, that His death is efficacious for those who believe, and that the believer’s justification is grounded upon His blood and attested by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead (Rom. 3:24, 25; 5:9; 1 Peter 1:3-5; 2:24; Eph. 1:7).

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God, where as the believer’s High Priest, He fulfills the ministry of representative, intercessor, and advocate (Acts 1:9, 10; Heb. 7:25; 9:24; Rom. 8:34; 1 John 2:1-2).

The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit
We believe that God the Holy Spirit is a person who convicts the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment, that He regenerates and indwells believers, and is the agent in the baptizing work of Christ whereby, at the moment of salvation, all believers are placed in His body. The Holy Spirit is the seal by which we are sealed unto the day of redemption (John 16:8-11; 2 Cor. 3:6; 1 Cor. 12:12-14; Rom. 8:9; Eph. 1:13, 14).

We believe that the Holy Spirit is the Divine Teacher who illumines our hearts and minds as we study His infallible Word (1 Cor. 2:9-12; Rom. 12:2; Col. 3:16; Eph. 5:18).

We believe it is the duty and privilege of all believers to be continually filled with the Spirit. This filling occurs when the believer is yielded to the Spirit’s control, and its results include Christlike character, worship, submissiveness, and service (Acts 2:4; 4:31; Rom. 8:14; 12:1, 2; Gal. 5:16, 22, 23; Eph. 4:30; 5:18; 1 John 1:7).

The Total Depravity of Man/Sin
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam’s sin the human race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God, and that man is totally depraved, and of himself, utterly unable to remedy his lost condition (Gen. 1:26, 27; Rom. 3:12, 22, 23; Eph 2:1-3, 12).

Salvation
We believe that salvation is the gift of God brought to man by grace alone, and received by personal faith alone, shed on Calvary for the forgiveness of our sins (Eph. 2:8-10; John 1:12; Eph 1:7; 1 Peter 1:18, 19).

We believe that salvation includes repentance, which is a gift from God. Repentance is a change of mind and heart concerning God, Christ, and sin, resulting in a change of lifestyle (Acts 11:18; 2 Tim. 2:25; 1 John 3:6).

The Eternal Security and Assurance of Believers
We believe that all the redeemed, once saved, are kept by God’s power and are thus secure in Christ forever (John 6:37-40; 10:27-30; Rom. 8:1, 38, 39; 1 Cor. 1:4-8; 1 Peter 1:5).

We believe that it is the privilege of believers to rejoice in the assurance of their salvation through the testimony of God’s Word, which, however, clearly forbids the use of Christian liberty as an occasion to the flesh (Rom. 13:13, 14; Gal. 5:13; Titus 2:11-15).

The Sanctification of the Believer
We believe that sanctification is a setting apart from sin unto God. This setting apart threefold: (1) positional sanctification refers to the completeness of the believer’s setting apart through the death of Christ; (2) progressive or experiential sanctification deals with the victory of the believer’s new nature over the old nature as he obediently responds to the enabling of the Holy Spirit; (3) perfect or ultimate sanctification will occur in the presence of Christ, when our position and practice are into complete accord (John 17:17; Rom. 6:13; 8:12, 13; 1 Cor. 6:11; 2 Cor. 3:18; 7:1; Gal. 5:16-23; Eph. 4:22-29; 5:25-27; Col. 3:10; 1 Thess. 5:23; Heb. 10:10, 14; 12:10; 1 Peter 1:16; 1 John 3:13; Jude 24, 25).

Separation
We believe that all the saved should live in such a manner as to not bring reproach upon their Savior and Lord, and that separation from all sinful pleasures, practices, and associations, and from all religious apostasy is commanded of God (2 Tim. 3:1-5; Rom. 12:1-2; 1 John 2:15-17; 2 John 9-11; 2 Cor. 6:14-7:1; 2 Thess. 3:6-7).

We believe that modern movements from which we should separate include ecumenical and charismatic movements in all their forms (2 Tim. 3:1-5; Rom. 16:17; 2 John 9-11; Titus 1:9).

Missions
We believe that it is the obligation of the saved to witness by word and by life to the truths of Holy Scripture and to go into all the world and make disciples of all nations (Matt. 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; 2 Cor. 5:19-20).

The Ministry and Spiritual Gifts
We believe that God is sovereign in the bestowment of all His gifts, that the gifts of evangelist, pastor, and teacher are given for the perfecting of the saints today, and that sign gifts, including speaking in tongues, gradually ceased as the New Testament Scriptures were completed and their authority became established (1 Cor. 12:4-11; 2 Cor. 12:12; Eph. 4:7-12; Heb. 2:3-4; 1 Cor. 13:8-13; Rom. 12:6-8).

We believe that God does hear and answer the prayer of faith, in accord with His own will, for the sick and afflicted (John 15:7; 1 John 5:14-15).

The Church
We believe that the Church, which is the body and the espoused bride of Christ, is a spiritual organism made up of all born-again persons of this present Church age with Christ as its Head (Eph 1:22-23; 1 Cor. 12:12-14; 2 Cor. 11:2; Eph. 5:23).

We believe that the establishment and continuance of the local churches is clearly taught and defined in the New Testament Scriptures (Acts 14:27; 20:17, 28-32; 1 Tim 3:1-13; Titus 1:5-11).

We believe in the autonomy of the local church, free of any external authority or control (Acts 13:1-4; 15:19-31; 28:28; Rom. 16:1, 4; 1 Cor 3:9, 16; 5:4-7, 13; 1 Peter 5:1-4).

We believe in only the following ordinances for the Church in this age: believers’ water baptism by immersion as a testimony of one’s faith and the Lord’s Supper as a remembrance of His death (Matt. 28:19-20; Acts 2:41, 42; 18:8; 1 Cor. 11:23-26).

Dispensationalism
We believe that the Scriptures, interpreted in their normal, literal sense, reveal distinguishable economies in the outworking of God’s purpose. These dispensations are not ways of salvation, but rather divinely ordered stewardships by which God directs man according to his purpose. Three of these - the age of Law, the age of the Church, and the age of the Millennial Kingdom – are the subjects of detailed revelation in Scripture (Gen. 12:1-3; John 1:27; 2 Cor. 3:9-18; Gal. 3:13-25; Eph. 1:10; Col. 1:24, 25; Heb. 7:19; Rev. 20:2-6).

The Personality of Angels/Satan
We believe that God created an innumerable host of sinless, spiritual beings known as angels, who are messengers of God. A great host of the angels fell though following Satan and are his agents in the carrying out of his unholy purposes. Satan is a person, the author of sin, the open and declared enemy of God and man, and he shall be eternally punished in the Lake of Fire (Job 1:6, 7; Isa. 14:12-17; Matt. 4:2-11; 25:41; Rev. 20:10).

The Second Advent of Christ
We believe in the “blessed hope,” the personal, imminent, pretribulational and premillenial coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to rapture His redeemed ones, and in His subsequent return to earth, with His saints, to establish His Millennial Kingdom (1 Thess. 4:13-18; Zech. 14:4-11; Rev. 19:11-16; 20:1-6; 1 Thess. 1:10; 5:9; Rev. 3:10).

The Eternal State
We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life, and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment (Matt. 25:46; John 5:28, 29; 11:25-26; Rev. 20:5, 6, 12, 13).

We believe that the souls of the redeemed are, at death, absent from the body and present with the Lord, where in conscious bliss they await the first resurrection (which includes the Church at the rapture and all other redeemed at the end of the tribulation) when body, soul, and spirit are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord (Luke 23:43; Rev. 20:4-6; 2 Cor. 5:8; Phil. 1:23; 3:21; 1 Thess. 4:16-17).

We believe that the souls of unbelievers remain, after death, in conscious misery until second resurrection, when body, soul, and spirit are reunited and shall appear at the Great White Throne judgment and shall be cast into the Lake of Fire, not to be annihilated but to suffer everlasting conscious punishment (Luke 16:19-26; Matt. 25:41-46; 2 Thess. 1:7-9; Jude 6, 7; Mark 9:43-48; Rev. 20:11-15).