Religious Beliefs

We believe in:

1  The full and verbal inspiration of all the Old Testament and New Testament Scriptures as originally given, and these alone, being in themselves the complete Word of God, without error, and wholly reliable in both fact and doctrine. Their final authority and perpetual sufficiency in all matters of faith, church order and personal and social conduct.

2  The one true and living God, inexpressibly glorious and infinite in all His attributes and worthy of all honor, love and obedience. The unity of the Godhead and divine co-equality of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit eternally. The sovereignty of God in creation, providence and redemption.

3  The true and proper deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His real and perfect humanity, the authority of His teaching and the infallibility of all His utterances. His substitutionary death on the cross as being the full, sufficient and only atonement for sin. His bodily resurrection, His ascension into heaven and His present priestly intercession for His people and personal return in glory.

4  The work of the Holy Spirit as essential for a true understanding of the Scriptures and for the regeneration and conversion of the sinner, by leading the individual to repentance towards God and saving faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Also, the work of the Holy Spirit for the sanctification of those regenerated and converted.

5  The total depravity of human nature in consequence of the fall of man from an original state of innocence in which he was created. By this fall mankind is in a state of condemnation and separation from God. Deliverance is only by the divine work of regeneration and conversion.

6  The sovereign grace of God, by which we mean His unmerited favor, freely bestowed upon man in the person and work of Jesus Christ.

7  The salvation of the elect by the grace of God, through the work of the Holy Spirit.

8  The justification of the sinner by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, through the atoning merits of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9  The final perseverance of all those chosen by the Father, redeemed by the Son and sanctified by the Holy Spirit, so that none of them shall ever perish but shall have eternal life.

10  The resurrection of the body. The judgment of the world through our Lord Jesus Christ. The eternal blessedness of the redeemed. The conscious eternal punishment of the impenitent.

11  The sole authority and prerogative of Christ, through the Holy Spirit speaking in His inspired Scriptures, in all matters pertaining to the government of the local church.

12  The observance of the ordinance of baptism of believers, as being instituted by Christ, in loving obedience and as an act of witness and means of grace, but not as conveying any regenerating grace.

13  The observance of the Lord’s Supper as a means of grace and as a commemoration of and participation in our Lord’s death, but not as being a sacrifice for sin nor involving any change in the substance of the bread and wine.