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1. We believe that love one for another as Jesus loves the believer manifests our
discipleship, proves our love for God and symbolizes our authority as New Testament
churches. Love is therefore the great commandment of the LORD Jesus Christ upon which
all others are dependent (Matt. 22:35-40; John 13:34, 35; John 15:12; I John 4:7-21;
I John 5:1-3; Rev. 2:4, 5).
2. We believe in the infallible, verbal inspiration of
the whole Bible and that the Bible is the all-sufficient rule of faith and practice
(Psalm 119:160; II Tim. 3:16,17).
3. We believe in the personal triune God: Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit, equal in divine perfection (Matt. 28:19).
4. We believe in the
Genesis account of Creation (Gen. 1; 2).
5. 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 the eternal lake of fire (Isa. 14:12-15; Ezek. 28:11-19; Matt. 25:41; II Cor.
4:4; Eph. 6:10-17; Rev. 20:10).
6. We believe in the virgin birth and sinless humanity
of Jesus Christ (Matt. 1:18-20; II Cor. 5:21; I Peter 2:22).
7. We believe in the
deity of Jesus Christ (John 10:30; John 1:1, 14; II Cor. 5:19).
8. We believe the
Holy Spirit is the divine Administrator for Jesus Christ in His churches (Luke 24:49;
John 14:16, 17; Acts 1:4, 5, 8; Acts 2:1-4).
9. We believe that miraculous spiritual
manifestation gifts were done away when the Bible was completed. Faith, Hope and
Love are the vital abiding Spiritual Gifts (I Cor. chapters 12-14).
10. We believe
that Man was created in the image of God and lived in innocency until he fell by
voluntary transgression from his sinless state, the result being that all mankind
are sinners (Gen. 1:26; Gen. 3:6-24; Rom. 5:12, 19).
11. We believe that the suffering
and death of Jesus Christ was substitutionary for all mankind and is efficacious
only to those who believe (Isa. 53:6; Heb. 2:9; I Peter 2:24; I Peter 3:18; II Peter
3:9; I John 2:2).
12. We believe in the bodily resurrection and ascension of Christ and the bodily
resurrection of His saints (Matt. 28:1-7; Acts 1:9-11; I Cor. 15:42-58; I Thess.
4:13-18).
13. 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 unrighteous unto eternal punishment in the lake of fire and that the righteous
shall enter into the heaven age (John 14:1-6; I Thess. 4:13-18; II Thess. 2:8; Rev.
19; Rev. 20:4-6; Rev. 20:11-15; Rev. 21:8).
14. 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 (Luke 13:3-5; John 3:16-18;
Acts 20:21; Rom. 6:23; Eph. 2:8, 9), and that the Holy Spirit convicts sinners, regenerates,
seals, secures, and indwells every believer (John 3:6; John 16:8, 9; Rom. 8:9-11;
I Cor. 6:19, 20; Eph. 4:30; Titus 3:5).
15. We believe that all who trust Jesus Christ
for salvation are eternally secure in Him and shall not perish (John 3:36; John 5:24;
John 10:27-30; Rom. 8:35-39; Heb. 10:39; I Peter 1:5).
16. We believe that God deals
with believers as His children, that He chastises the disobedient, and that He rewards
the obedient (Matt. 16:27; Matt. 25:14-23; John 1:12; Heb. 12:5-11; II John 8; Rev.
22:12).
17. 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 no 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; Matt. 16:18; Matt. 28:19, 20; Mark 1:14-20; John
1:35-51; Eph. 3:21).
18. 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, restricted to the members of the church observing the ordinance (Matt.
28:19, 20; Acts 8:12, 38; Rom. 6:4; I Cor. 5:11-13; I Cor. 11:1, 2, 17-20, 26).
19.
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 I Timothy.
20.
We believe that all associations, fellowships, and committees are, and properly should
be, servants of, and under control of the churches (Matt. 20:25-28).
21. 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; I Peter 2:13-15).