GOD
We believe God is eternally existent in three separate persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (1 John 5:7).
We believe God is the personal, transcendent, and sovereign Creator of all things (Gen. 1:1-2:2).
We believe that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human, that He was born of a virgin (Is. 7:14; Matt. 1:23), lived a sinless life (Heb. 4:15), provided for the atonement of our sins by His substitutionary and atoning death on the cross (1 John 2:2), was bodily resurrected by the power of the Holy Spirit (Acts 17:31; 1 Cor. 15:3-8), ascended back to the right hand of God the father (Mark 16:19), and ever lives to make intercession for us (Rom.8:27; Heb. 7:24-25).
After Jesus ascended to Heaven (Acts1:9), He poured out His Holy Spirit on believers in Jerusalem (Acts 2:1-4), enabling them to fulfill His command to preach the Gospel to the entire world; an obligation shared by all believers today (Matt 28:19-20).
SCRIPTURE
We believe in the inerrancy of Scripture; that the Bible’s Old and New Testaments are the inspired, infallible Word of God (2 Tim. 3:16-17).
SALVATION & GIFTS
We believe that all people are by nature separated from God and responsible for their own sin (Rom. 3:23; Is. 59:2), but that salvation, redemption, and forgiveness are freely offered to all by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ (Rom. 6:23). When a person repents of sin (Acts 3:19) and accepts Jesus Christ as personal Lord and Savior (Rom. 10:9-11), trusting Him to save, that person is immediately born again and sealed by the Holy Spirit (Eph. 1:13-14), all of his/her sins are forgiven (1 John 1:9), and that person becomes a child of God, destined to spend eternity with the Lord.
In Christ, we have a new identity and are called to live out our faith through service and love, reflecting God’s character. Key scriptures include Romans 12:1-2, which calls for transformation through renewing the mind, and Galatians 2:20, which emphasizes that believers live by faith in Christ. Responsibilities include loving others (John 13:34-35), serving one another (Galatians 5:13), and sharing the gospel (Matthew 28:19-20).
We believe that Jesus baptizes believers in the Holy Spirit (Act 2: 1-4)
We believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit that he gives mentioned in the Scriptures (1 Cor. 12:1-11), and that they are valid for today and are to be exercised within scriptural guidelines. We, as believers, are to covet the best gifts (1 Cor. 12:27-31), seeking to exercise them in love that the whole Body of Christ might be edified (1 Cor. 14:12). We believe that love is more important than the most spectacular gifts, and that without love, all exercise of spiritual gifts is worthless (1 Cor. 13).
OUR COMMUNITY
We believe the only true basis of Christian fellowship is Christ’s agape love, which is greater than any differences we possess (Phil. 2:1-2) and without which we have no right to claim ourselves Christians (1 John 3:10-16).
We seek to teach the Word of God in such a way that its message can be applied to the individual’s life leading that person to a greater maturity in Christ (Eph. 4:11-12; 2 Tim. 3:16-17).
We believe that marriage is a covenant between a man and a woman (Genesis 2:16-25) , that they may become one flesh and represent the relationship between Christ and the church as it says in (Ephesians 5:22-33)