We believe
that the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments are verbally inspired of
God and inerrant in the original writing and that they are of supreme and final
authority in faith and life.
(II Timothy 3:16-17) (II
Peter 1:19-21)
We believe
in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
equal in essence, while distinct in personality and function.
(Exodus 20:2-3) (Matthew
28:19) (I Corinthians 8:6)
We believe
in God's direct creation of the universe, without the use of any pre-existent
material and apart from any process of evolution whatever, according to the
Genesis account.
(Genesis 1:1-31) (Exodus
20:11) (Colossians 1:16-17)
(Hebrews 11:3)
We believe
that Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, was concieved by the Holy Spirit, and
born of Mary, a virgin, and is true God and true man.
(John 1:1,14) (Luke
1:35) (Isaiah 7:14) (Galatians
4:4)
We believe
in the ressurection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into
heaven, and in His present life there as High Priest and Advocate.
(Matthew 28:1-7) (Acts
1:8-11) (I Corinthians
15:4-9) (Hebrews 4:14-16)
We believe
that the Holy spirit is the agent of the new birth through conviction and
regeneration, and that He seals, indwells, and baptizes every believer into the
Body of Christ at the moment of conversion. We believe that the Holy Spirit
fills, empowers, and distributes service gifts to believers, but that sign gifts
were restricted to the Apostolic Period.
(John 3:5) (Ephesians
1:13) (Romans 8:9) (I
Corinthians 12:13) (Ephesians
5:18) (Ephesians 4:11-12)
(Romans 12:6-8) (Hebrews
2:3-4) (Ephesians 2:20) (I
Corinthians 13:8-13)
We believe
that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned and thereby incurred
not only physical death but also that spiritual death which is separation from
God, and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature and are sinners in
thought, word, and deed.
(Genesis 1:26-27) (Genesis
3:1-6) (Romans 5:12,19) (Romans
3:10-13) (Titus 1:15-16)
We believe
that the Lord Jesus Christ died as the substitutionary sacrifice for all men.
The blood atonement He made was unlimited in its potential. It is limited only
in its application, effectively saving those who are brought by the Holy Spirit
to repentance and faith.
(Isaiah 53:4-11) (II
Corinthians 5:14-21) (I John
2:1-2) (II Peter 2:1) (I
Timothy 4:10) (John 3:5-8) (John
16:8-13)
We believe
that all who recieve Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become
children of God.
(John 1:12-13) (John
3:3-16) (Acts 16:31) (Ephesians
2:8-9)
We believe
in the eternal security of the believer, that it is impossible for one born into
the family of God ever to be lost because he is forever kept by the power of
God.
(John 6:39-40) (John
10:28-29) (Romans 8:35-39)
(Jude 1) (I
Peter 1:5)
We believe
in "that blessed hope" - the personal, premillenial, pretribulational, and
imminent return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, when the Church will be
"gathered together under Him".
(Titus 2:13) (John
14:1-3) (I
Thessalonians 4:13-18) (I
Corinthians 15:51-58) (II
Thessalonians 2:1-3)
We believe
in the literal fulfillment of the prophecies and promises of the Scriptures
which fortell and assure the future regeneration and restoration of Israel as a
nation.
(Genesis 13:14-17) (Jeremiah
16:14-15) (Jeremiah 30:6-11)
(Romans 11)
We believe
in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting
blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting punishment of the lost.
(Matthew 25:31-46) (Luke
16:19-31) (I
Thessalonians 4:13-18) (Revelation
21:1-8)
We believe
that the church, which is Christ's body, is the spiritual organism consisting of
all born-again believers of this New Testament dispensation.
(Ephesians 1:22-23) (I
Corinthians 12:13)
We believe
that the local church is the agency through which God has chosen to accomplish
His work in the world. A New Testament Baptist Church is an organized body of
baptized believers, immersed upon a credible confession of faith in Jesus
Christ, having two offices (pastor and deacon), congregational in polity,
autonomous in nature, and banded together for work, worship, edification, the
observance of the ordinances, and the worldwide fulfillment of the Great
Commission. We believe that the local church, under Christ's headship, is to be
free from any external heirarchy and should not associate itself with any
ecumenical endeavor, neo-orthodoxy, neo-evangelicalism, or any other such
efforts to compromise the Truth.
(Acts 2:41-47) (Ephesians
3:10) (Matthew 28:18-20)
(I Timothy 3) (I
Peter 5:1-3) (Ephesians 1:22)
(Romans16:17) (II
Corinthians 6:14-17) (I
Timothy 6:3-5)
We believe
that the scriptural ordinances of the church are baptism and the Lord's Supper
and are to be administered by the local church; that baptism, by immersion,
should be administered to believers only as a symbol of thier belief in the
death, burial, and resurrection or our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and as a
testimony to the world of that belief and of thier death, burial, and
resurrection with Him; and that the Lord's Supper should be partaken of by
baptized believers to show forth His death, "till He come".
(Matthew 28:18-20) (Acts
2:41-47) (Acts 8:26-39) (I
Corinthians 11:23-28) (Colossians
2:12)