Our Purpose & Beliefs

We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the verbally and plenary inspired Word of God. The Scriptures are inerrant, infallible and breathed out by God, and therefore are the final authority for faith and life. The sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments are complete and divine revelation of God to Man. The Scriptures shall be interpreted according to their normal grammatical-historical meaning. The Kings James Version of the Bible shall be the official and only translation used by the church (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21).

We believe in one Triune God, eternally existing in three persons – three Persons, one God. These three members of the Trinity are Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—each co-eternal in being, co-identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections. (Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14; John 14:10, 26)

(1) We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man without ceasing to be God, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful men. (Isaiah 7:14; 9:6; Luke 1:35; John 1:1-2, 14; II Corinthians 5:19-21; Galatians 4:4-5; Philippians 2:5-8)

(2) We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through His death on the cross as a representative, vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice; and that our justification is made sure by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead. (Acts 2:18-36; Romans 3:24-25; 1 Peter 2:24; Ephesians 1:7; 1 Peter 1:3-5)

(3) We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to Heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God, where, as our High Priest, He fulfills the ministries of Representative, Intercessor, and Advocate. (Acts 1:9-10; Hebrews 9:24; 7:25; Romans 8:34; 1 John 2:1-2)

(1) We believe that the Holy Spirit is a Person Who convicts the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment; and, that He is the Supernatural Agent in regeneration, baptizing all believers into the body of Christ, indwelling and sealing them unto the day of redemption. (John 16:8-11; Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 12:12-14; 2 Corinthians 3:6; Ephesians 1:13-14)

(2) We believe that He is the Divine Teacher Who assists believers to understand and appropriate the Scriptures and that it is the privilege and duty of all the saved to be filled with the Spirit. (Ephesians 1:17-18; 5:18; 1 John 2:20, 27)

(3) We believe that God is sovereign in the bestowal of spiritual gifts to every believer. God uniquely uses evangelists, pastors, and teachers to equip believers in the assembly in order that they can do the work of the ministry. (Romans 12:3-8; 1 Corinthians 12:4-11, 28; Ephesians 4:7-12)

(4) We believe that the sign gifts of the Holy Spirit, such as speaking in tongues and the gift of healing, were temporary. We believe that speaking in tongues was never the common or necessary sign of the baptism or filling of the Holy Spirit and that ultimate deliverance of the body from sickness or death awaits the consummation of our salvation in the resurrection, though God frequently chooses to answer the prayers of believers for physical healing. (1 Corinthians 1:22; 13:8; 14:21-22)

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 all men are sinners by birth and by choice, and, of themselves, utterly unable to remedy their lost condition. (Genesis 1:26-27; Romans 3:22-23; 5:12; 6:23; Ephesians 2:1-3; 4:17-19)

We believe that salvation is the gift of God brought to man by grace and received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, Whose precious blood was shed on Calvary for the forgiveness of our sins and that in order to be saved, sinners must be born again; that the new birth is a new creation in Christ Jesus; that it is instantaneous and not a process. (John 1:12; Ephesians 1:7; 2:8-10; 1 Peter 1:18-19)

(1) 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; Romans 8:1, 38-39; 1 Corinthians 1:4-8; 1 Peter 1:4-5)

(2) 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. (Romans 13:13-14; Galatians 5:13; Titus 2:11-15)

(1) We believe Jesus started the local New Testament Church. These church members practiced "Acts" Christianity. We believe the church Jesus started is exactly what the local independent Baptist churches are today. He began only one church.

(2) We believe that the local church, which is the body and the espoused bride of Christ, is solely made up of born-again persons who have been baptized and join the membership of a local church. We believe in the autonomy of the local church, free from any external authority or control. We believe in the Baptist principle of separation of church and state.

(3) We believe that the two ordinances of the church are baptism and the Lord's Supper. Baptism is the immersion of a born-again believer in water in the name of the Trinity. The Lord's Supper is the commemoration and proclamation of His death until He comes, to be observed by the local church until He returns.

We believe that Satan is a real person and is the author of sin and the cause of the Fall; that he is the open and declared enemy of God and man; and, that he shall be eternally punished in the Lake of Fire. (Isaiah 14:12-17; Matthew 4:2-11; Revelation 20:10)

(1) We believe in the personal separation of the believer from worldly and sinful practices. We believe that we are to perfect holiness in the fear of God by abstaining from all appearance of evil. The believer is to be holy in all manner of conversation. (Romans 12:1-2; 2 Corinthians 6:14–7:1; 1 Thessalonians 5:22; 1 Peter 1:15-16)

(2) We believe in the ecclesiastical separation of the believer from apostasy, unbelief, and disobedience. The believer is to earnestly contend for the faith by identifying and separating from those who deny the fundamentals of the faith or who willfully disobey the Word of God. (Romans 16:17-18; 2 Corinthians 6:14; Ephesians 5:11; 2 Thessalonians 3:6, 14-15; Titus 3:10; Jude 3-4)

We believe that God has ordained and created all authority consisting of three basic institutions: (1) the home, (2) the church, and (3) the state. Every person is subject to these authorities, but all (including those authorities) are answerable to God and are governed by His Word. We believe God has called us to pray for and obey those in authority, and that we are to live peaceably with all men. (Romans 13:1-7; Titus 3:1-2; 1 Peter 2:13-14)

We believe in the pre-tribulational rapture of the Church when the Lord Jesus Christ will come for His own in the air, and they will be caught up to meet Him (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 1 Corinthians 15:52-53). We believe in the literal, bodily, pre-millennial return of Christ to the earth to reign for one thousand years (Revelation 20:1-6). We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men — the saved to eternal life and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment (John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:11-15).

We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men — the saved to eternal life and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment. 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 when spirit, soul, and body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord (Luke 23:43; Revelation 20:4-6). We believe that the souls of the unsaved remain, after death, in conscious misery until the second resurrection when, with soul and body reunited, they 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 (Revelation 20:11-15).