Doctrinal Statement

SCRIPTURES

We believe that the Old and New Testaments are the inerrant word of God in the original writings and is the basis for practicing faith of all believers in Jesus Christ.

2 Timothy 3:16-17, 2 Peter 1:20-21, Hebrews 1:1-2, 4:12; Psalm 119:160). 

TRIUNE GODHEAD

The Triune Godhead consists of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

God is one essence with three distinct persons, three-in-one. Matthew 28:19, Deuteronomy 4:39, Deuteronomy 6:42 Corinthians 13:14.

TRIUNE GODHEAD - The Father

THE FATHER is the first person of the Trinity is sovereign in creation, provisions and the redemption of man and creation. All things are for His glory and has personal involvement in the lives of humankind by answered prayers and salvation in Jesus Christ. Psalm 103:19, 2 Chronicles 29:11, Ephesians 1:2-6, John 5:19-24, Matthew 6:9. 

TRIUNE GODHEAD - The Son

THE SON is the second person of the Trinity eternally and is God made flesh, born of a virgin—fully God and fully man. He lived a sinless life on earth as a historical person, yet retained his deity. He did all that was required of him from God, the Father, to complete the plan of sacrificial death to satisfy the payment for sin. On the third day, Jesus bodily rose from death in the resurrection, later ascended to heaven and will return to earth visibly at the second coming. Romans 3:24-26, John 1:14-18, Acts 1:11, 1 Cor 15:1-8, Colossians 2:9, Hebrews 2:17-18, Revelation 20:11-15

TRIUNE GOD - The Holy Spirit

THE HOLY SPIRIT the third person in the Trinity does the will of God in the realm of mankind and in heaven. The Holy Spirit indwells believers as a seal and a mark of salvation secured by Jesus Christ and His death on the cross. The Holy Spirit has many roles convicting man of sin towards righteous living while on earth. Believers receive power by the Holy Spirit to do the will of God, planned beforehand by God the Father and before the foundation of the world 1 Corinthians 12; Galatians 5:16-25, John 3:1-8, 15-16; John 16:4-15, Ephesians 1:13-14, Ephesians 5:18-21

MAN AND WOMAN

MAN AND WOMAN are created in God’s image for fellowship and to do the will of God on earth. Sin entered the world through human disobedience to God’s clear command. Other consequences are spiritual death and physical death affecting all human beings, thereafter, born with a sinful nature. God created male and female with a specific design to fulfill God’s intent. Marriage is a lifelong exclusive covenant relationship between one man and one woman monogamously. Any conduct outside of this God-ordained order is contrary and therefore sin. Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 2:7, Genesis 3:3-4 Matthew 19:4, Mark 10:6, Psalm 139:13, Ephesians 2:1-3. Romans 1:18-32; Romans 3:10-23. Genesis 2:24-25, Exodus 20:14, 17, Matthew 19:4-6, 9; Romans 1:18-31, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, 15-20; Jude 7

SALVATION

SALVATION means that we as humans have a sinful nature and in dependent need of a substitutionary sacrifice by the work and person of Jesus Christ. Every person that believes in Jesus Christ is declared justified by the Father, by grace through faith, regenerated in the Holy Spirit’s baptism. Salvation makes a believer a child of God by adoption and becomes a member of the one true church, the bride of Christ—the Body of Christ, with Jesus as the Head. This believing loyalty in Jesus results in a life marked by love and the fruits of the Spirit, in harmony with the Word of God and fellow devoted believers of the Lord Jesus Christ.

John 1:12, 3:16, John 4:24, John 14:6, Acts 4:12, Romans 3:21-26, Romans 5:8, 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, Galatians 3:26; Ephesians 1:7, 2:8-10, Titus 3:4-7, Hebrews 10:10-12, 1 John 5:11-13. 

THE CHURCH

THE CHURCH consists of any person through the millennia that has had and is currently of believing-loyalty in and to the Messiah the Lord Jesus Christ. There is one true universal church and members are mandated by the Scriptures to gather together locally as representatives of Christ’s invisible Church, truly regenerated from sin and death. The church is governed by elders and deacons autonomously conducting faithfully the two ordinances of Baptism and the Lord’s Communion. The church is responsible for preaching the clear gospel, leading and maturing believers in the faith, and equipping them for ministry in good works pre-ordained by God. Acts 2:41-47; Acts 4:1-16; Matthew 16:13-28, Matthew 28:18-20; 1 Corinthians 11:23-29; Ephesians 2:19-22, Ephesians 4:11-13; Hebrews 10:23-25; 1 Peter 5:1-3. 

SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST

SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST means that Jesus Christ is prophetically ordained to return in bodily form, visible, unmistakable and in full glory. John 14:1-3, I Thessalonians 4:15-17, Acts 1:9-11, 1 Corinthians 15:20-28, Revelation 20:1-4.

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