WHAT WE BELIEVE

Scriptures
We believe that the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, to be the inspired Word of God, without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of His will for the salvation of men, and the final authority for all Christian faith and life.

God
We believe in one God, Creator of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Jesus Christ
We believe that Jesus Christ is true God and true man, having been conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He died on the cross as a sacrifice for our sins. By His substitutionary death, He revealed God's love and upheld God's justice, removing our guilt and reconciling us to God. Having redeemed us from sin, He arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven where, at God's right hand, He intercedes for His people and rules as Lord over all.

Holy Spirit
We believe that the ministry of the Holy Spirit is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ, and during this age to convict the world of sin, righteousness and judgment. Through the proclamation of the Gospel He persuades us to repent of our sins and confess Jesus as Lord. He also indwells, guides, instructs, and empowers us for godly living and sacrifice.

Man
We believe that the man was created in the image of God. Tempted by Satan, man rebelled against God. Being estranged from his Maker, he became subject to divine wrath, inwardly depraved and apart from grace, incapable of returning to God. Fallen and lost, therefore, only through regeneration by the Holy Spirit can salvation and spiritual life be obtained.

Salvation
We believe that the shed blood of Jesus Christ and His resurrection provide the only ground for justification for salvation for all who believe, and only such as receive Jesus Christ are born of the Holy Spirit, and thus become children of God. We believe that salvation is provided solely by His grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Anyone turning from sin in repentance, and trusting in Christ and His substitutionary death, is born from above into eternal life by the Holy Spirit and declared to be righteous as a gift. Through Christ's great redemptive act, an individual is reconciled to God as Father and becomes His child. The believer is forgiven of the debt and liberated from the law of sin and death into the freedom of God's Spirit.

Sanctification
We believe that the Holy Spirit is the active agent in our sanctification and He seeks to produce His fruit in us as we are conformed to the image of Christ. As we are led by the Spirit, we grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord, freely keeping His commandments and endeavoring so to live in the world so that all people may see our good works and glorify our Father who is in heaven.

Ordinances
We believe that water baptism and the Lord's Supper are ordinances to be observed by the Church during the present age. They are, however, not to be regarded as means of salvation.

Church
We believe that the true Church is composed of all such persons who through saving faith in Jesus Christ have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit and are united together in the body of Christ. All members of the Church are to be a vital and committed part of a local church. In this context they are called to walk out the New Covenant as the people of God and demonstrate the reality of the Kingdom of God. We believe that Jesus Christ is the Lord and Head of the Church, and that every local church has the right under Christ to decide and govern its own affairs.

Consummation
We believe that the Consummation of all things includes the visible, personal, glorious, imminent return of Jesus Christ, resurrection of the dead, the rapture of the church, the judgment of the just and the unjust and the fulfillment of Christ's Kingdom in the new heavens and the new earth. Then shall the eager expectation of creation be fulfilled and the whole earth shall proclaim the glory of God who makes all things new.