1. We believe that the Bible is the verbally inspired Word of God and therefore our only authority in matters of faith and practice. II Timothy 3:16-17; II Peter 1:19-21

2. We believe that there is one true and living God and that in the unity of the Godhead there are three persons-The Father, The Son, The Holy Spirit, equal in every divine perfection, and executing distinct, but harmonious offices in the great work of redemption. Genesis 1:1-26; I Peter 1:2.

3. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ; that He is the very God by whom and for whom “all things were created”. We believe in His Virgin Birth; that He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and is therefore God manifest in the flesh. Matthew 1:18-25

4. We believe in Salvation by Divine Sacrifice; that the sinless Son of God shed His blood and gave “His life a ransom for many and bore our sins in His own body on the tree”. I Peter 2:24

5. We believe in the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, and in His bodily presence is at the right hand of God as our High Priest and Advocate. I John 2:1; I Timothy 2:5

6. We believe in the personality and deity of the Holy Spirit. John 14:26

7. We believe in the universal depravity of mankind; therefore, in the necessity of regeneration through the Holy Spirit of God and faith in Jesus Christ and that all who take Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord are born from above and eternally secure. Romans 3:1-21; 8:35-39; John 3:3-7; 10:28-29; Philippians 1:6

8. We believe in the immersion of the believer in water as the only Biblical baptism, pre-requisite to Church membership. The communion of the Lord’s Supper as a privilege peculiar only to those who are believers in Christ. Romans 6:3-5; I Corinthians 11:23-28

9. We believe that the New Testament order of a Gospel Church is a body of baptized believers organized, independent, self-governing and voluntarily associated together for the service of God. Acts 2:41-42

10. We believe in the great commission given by our Lord to His Church to evangelize the world, and that this evangelization is the great mission of the church. Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 1:8; Romans 10:12-15

11. We believe in the Second Coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, that He will come first for His Church before the Tribulation Period, and then will come with His Church to judge and rule. I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Matthew 25:31-46

12. We believe in the reality and personality of Satan and that he is the god of this world and the prince and power of the air. Ezekiel 28:12-15; Isaiah 14:12-14; Ephesians 2:2

13. We believe in the Heaven of eternal bliss for the righteous, and in the conscious and eternal punishment of the wicked in the Lake of Fire. Revelation 20:1-3, 10

14. We believe that God created the heavens and the earth, including all life, “each after its own kind”, by direct creation in accordance with the Genesis account and not by the process of evolution. Genesis 1:16-17; John 1:3