Doctrinal Standards
- We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament as inspired by God, and they are the final authority in faith and life.
- We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
- We believe that Jesus Christ, the second person of the Trinity, was begotten by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.
- We believe in the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, ever present, and active in and with the Church of Christ, convicting the world of sin, regenerating those who repent, sanctifying believers and guiding in all the truth as it is in Jesus Christ.
- We believe that man was created in the image of God; that he by voluntary transgression incurred not only physical death but also that spiritual death, which is separation from God.
- We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures and in the atonement, through the substitutionary death of Christ.
- We believe that on the third day the Lord Jesus Christ rose from the dead, and later ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
- We believe in the ordinance of water Baptism by immersion as commanded in the Scriptures, to be observed by all who have truly repented toward God and believing received Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.
- We believe the Lord’s Supper, a memorial of His suffering and death, is enjoined to all believers “until He comes.”
- We believe that sanctification through the Holy Spirit, is that act of God, subsequent to conversion, by which the believer receives the power of the Holy Spirit for life and service.
- We believe that the Church is the body of Christ, the habitation of God through the Spirit, composed of all born-again person whose names are written in the Book of Life.
- We believe that the return of the Lord for those who are His own is imminent and the blessed hope of the Church.
- We believe all who truly believe in and obediently follow Jesus Christ our Lord shall live forever in Heaven and all who persistently reject Christ and His salvation shall be consigned to everlasting punishment.
