WHAT WE BELIEVE

We believe the Bible to be the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.

We believe that there is only one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

We believe in the deity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return to earth in power and glory.

We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful man, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.

The ministry of the Holy Spirit is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ and, during this age, to convict men of sin, regenerate the believing sinner, indwell, guide, instruct, and empower the believer for godly living and service.

We believe that the only way eternal life is received is by faith alone in Jesus Christ.

Water baptism by immersion soon after accepting Christ as personal Savior, is a testimony of death to sin and resurrection to a new life and the Lord's Supper is a memorial service setting forth in sacred and symbolic manner the death of the Lord Jesus Christ; all true believers and only believers should share in it.

The personal, premillenial, and imminent return of our Lord Jesus Christ is our hope and has a vital bearing on the personal life and service of the believer.

We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life. We believe in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, with the Biblical evidence of speaking in other tongues as a subsequent gift to salvation. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.

We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in Our Lord Jesus Christ.

We believe that deliverance from sickness is provided for in the atonement, and is the privilege of all believers.

We believe that every believer is commissioned to go into the world and make disciples, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey the commands of Jesus Christ.

We believe the local church is the primary, God-established base of worship, nurture, fellowship and evangelism.

We believe that the Holy Spirit is at work today within the Church through His gifts, fruits, and anointed ministers.

We believe that the gifts of the Holy Spirit are given to every believer and need to be activated and exercised to fulfill their divine purpose of blessing the Body of Christ.

We believe in the full restoration of the corporate Body of Christ.

We believe in perfecting and equipping the saints so they can enter in the full functions of the fivefold ministry that were given, into the work of their ministry thereby edifying the whole Body of Christ.

We believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit wherein the Spirit is sent to gift each believer with their own private prayer/praise language used to edify themselves, and that such a baptism empowers the believer to be effective for Christ.

We believe in proclaiming present-truth for the purpose of establishing dynamic, growing local churches, building on the foundational ministries of the Apostles and Prophets.

We believe in the autonomy of each local church and that itinerant ministries should be based out of and related to a local church with accountability to a senior minister.