Beliefs

GOD

We believe that there is one God who exists in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Gen 1:1; 2:7; Ex 3:14; 6:2-3; 15:11; 20:1; Lev 22:2; De 6:4; 32:6; 1Ch 29:10; Psa 19:1-3; Isa 43:3, 15; 64:8; Jer 10:10; 17:13; Mat 6:9; 7:11; 23:9; 28:19; Mark 1:9-11; John 4:24; 5:26; 14:6-13; 17:1-8; Acts 1:7; Rom 8:14-15; 1Co 8:6; Gal 4:6; Eph 4:6; Col 1:15; 1Ti 1:17; Heb 11:6; 12:9; 1Pe 1:17; 1Jo 5:7

JESUS

We believe that Jesus is the Son of God, was born of a virgin, was wholly God and wholly man, lived a sinless life, died in our place as a sacrifice for the sins of mankind, was buried, arose bodily from the grave, and ascended into Heaven.

Gen 18:1; Psalm 2:7; 110:1; Isa 7:14; 53:1-12; Mat 1:18-23; 3:17; 8:29; 11:27; 14:33; 16:16, 27; Mat 17:5; 27; 28:1-6, 19; Mark 1:1; 3:11; Luke 1:35; 4:41; 22:70; 24:46; John 1:1-18, 29; 10:30, 38; 11:25-27; 12:44-50; John 14:7-11, 16:15-16, 28; 17:1-5, 21-22; 20:1-20, 28; Acts 1:9; 2:22-24; 7:55-56; 9:4-5, 20; Rom 1:3-4; 3:23-26; 5:6-21; 8:1-3, 34; 10:4; 1Co 1:30; 2:2; 8:6; 15:1-8, 24-28; 2Co 5:19-21; Gal 4:4-5; Eph 1:20; 3:11; 4:7-10; Php 2:5-11; Col 1:13-22; 2:9; 1Th 4:14-18; 1Ti 2:5-6; 3:16; Tit 2:13-14; Heb 1:1-3; 4:14-15; 7:14-28; Heb 9:12-15, 24-28; 12:2; 13:8; 1Pe 2:21-25; 3:22; 1Jo 1:7-9; 3:2; 4:14- 15; 5:9; 2Jo 7-9; Rev 1:13-16; 5:9-14; 12:10-11; 13:8; 19:16

CHRIST’S RETURN

We believe that Jesus Christ will literally return to earth.

Isa 2:4; 11:9; Mat 16:27; 18:8-9; Mat 19:28; 24:27, 30, 36, 44; 25:31-46; 26:64; Mark 8:38; 9:43-48; Luke 12:40, 48; 16:19-26; Luke 17:22-37; 21:27-28; John 14:1-3; Acts 1:11; 17:31; Rom 14:10; 1Co 4:5; 1Co 15:24-28, 35-58; 2Co 5:10; Php 3:20-21; Col 1:5; 3:4; 1Th 4:14-18; 5:1; 2Th 1:7; 2:1-17; 1Ti 6:14; 2Ti 4:1, 8; Tit 2:13; Heb 9:27-28; James 5:8; 2Pe 3:7; 1Jo 2:28; 3:2; Jude 14; Rev 1:18; 3:11; 20:1-22:13

HOLY SPIRIT

We believe that God the Holy Spirit is active in convincing unbelievers of their need for salvation, and is the Comforter and Guide Who lives in every believer.

Gen 1:2; Judges 14:6; Job 26:13; Psa 51:11; 139:7; Isa 61:1-3; Joel 2:28-32; Mat 1:18; 3:16; 4:1; 12:28-32; 28:19; Mk 1:10, 12; Luke 1:35; 4:1, 18-19; 11:13; 12:12; 24:49; John 4:24; 14:16-17, 26; 15:26; 16:7-14

BIBLE

We believe that the Holy Bible is the Word of God without any error, the sole authority for life and faith.

Ex 24:4; De 4:1-2; 17:19; Jos 8:34; Psa 19:7-10; 119:11, 89, 105, 140; Isa 34:16; 40:8; Jer 15:16; 36:1-32; Mat 5:17-18; 22:29; Lu 21:33; 24:44-46; Joh 5:39; 16:13-15; 17:17; Ac 2:16; 17:11; Rom 15:4; 16:25-26; 2Ti 3:15-17; Heb 1:1-2; 4:12; 1Pe 1:25; 2Pe 1:19-21

MAN

We believe that man is a special creation of God, made in His image, but that through the sin of the first man, Adam, mankind fell so that all men are sinners and need salvation.

Gen 1:26-30; 2:5, 7, 18-22; 3; 9:6; Psa 1:1-6; 8:3-6; 32:1-5; 51:5; Isa 6:5; Jer 17:5; Matt 16:26; Acts 17:26-31; Rom 1:19-32; 3:10-18, 23; 5:6, 12, 19; 6:6; Rom 7:14-25; 8:14-18, 29; 1Co 1:21-31; 15:19, 21-22; Eph 2:1-22; Col 1:21-22; 3:9-11

SALVATION

We believe that salvation is by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Gen 3:15; Ex 3:14-17; 6:2-8; Mat 1:21; 4:17; 16:21-26; 27:22-28:6; Luke 1:68-69; 2:28-32; John 1:11-14, 29; 3:3-21, 36; 5:24; 10:9, 28-29; John 15:1-16; 17:17; Acts 2:21; 4:12; 15:11; 16:30-31; Acts 17:30-31; 20:32; Rom 1:16-18; 2:4; 3:23-25; 4:3; Rom 5:8-10; 6:1-23; 8:1-18; 29-39; 10:9-10, 13; Rom 13:11-14; 1Cor 1:18, 30; 6:19-20; 15:10; 2Co 5:17-20; Gal 2:20; 3:13; 5:22-25; 6:15; Eph 1:7; 2:8-22; 4:11-16; Php 2:12-13; Col 1:9-22; 3:1; 1Th 5:23-24; 2Tim 1:12; Titus 2:11-14; Heb 2:1-3; 5:8-9; 9:24-28; 11:1-12:8, 14; James 2:14-26; 1Pe 1:2-23; 1Jo 1:6-2:11; Rev 3:20; 21:1-22:5

ASSURANCE

We believe that every person who is truly saved is eternally secure in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Rom 8:29; Eph 1:4; II Tim 1:12; Jude 24; Philippians 1:6; 1 Peter 1:5; Heb 7:25; Rom 8:1; II Pet 3:9; John 6:37, 39; John 3:5-6; Eph 2:8-9; Rom 6:23; 1 Jn 5:12; Jn 4:14; 6:35; Jn 3:16; II Pet 1:4; II Cor 5:17; Jn 5:24; 10:28; Col 2:10; Jude 1; Ps 31:23; Eph 1:13, 14; 4:30; Jn 10:28, 29; Rom 8:35-39; Rom 8:29; 1 Cor 15:49; Philippians 3:21; 1 Jn 3:21; Titus 1:2; 1 Jn 5:12; 1 Jn 3:24; 4:13; Rom 8:16; 1 Jn 3:14

ETERNITY

We believe that those persons who die in their sins without Christ spend eternity in the lake of fire and those persons who die with their sins forgiven through Christ spend eternity in Heaven.

Mat 5:22; Mat 5:29; Mat 5:30; Mat 10:28; Mat 11:23; Mat 16:18; Mat 18:9; Mat 23:15; Mat 23:33; Mar 9:43; Mar 9:45;
Mar 9:47; Luk 10:15; Luk 12:5; Luk 16:23; 2Pe 2:4; Rev 1:18; Rev 6:8; Rev 20:13; Rev 19:20; 20:14-15; 21:8; Rev 21:4; John 3:16; Rev 22:1-5; Luke 23:43; Matt 6:19-21; Luke 12:33-34; 1 Tim 6:17-19; Rev 21:22-27; Heb 11:16; Rev 21:21-25; John 3:13; 2 Peter 3:13; Rev 21:1-5

BAPTISM & THE LORD’S SUPPER

We believe that water baptism is an act of obedience to the command of Christ and is by immersion after salvation.
The Lord’s Supper is also a symbolic act of obedience whereby members of the church, through partaking of the bread and the fruit of the vine, memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.

Mat 3:13-17; 26:26-30; 28:19-20; Mk 1:9-11; 14:22-26; Luke 3:21-22; 22:19-20; John 3:23; Acts 2:41-42; 8:35-39; 16:30-33; 20:7; Rom 6:3-5; 1Co 10:16, 21; 11:23-29; Col 2:12

CHURCH

We believe that the church is a local body of baptized believers with the Lord Jesus Christ as the Head.

Mat 16:15-19; 18:15-20; Acts 2:41-42, 47; 5:11-14; 6:3-6; 13:1-3; 14:23, 27; Acts 15:1-30; 16:5; 20:28; Rom 1:7; 1Co 1:2; 3:16; 5:4-5; 7:17; 9:13-14; 12; Eph 1:22-23; 2:19-22; 3:8-11, 21; 5:22-32; Php 1:1; Col 1:18; 1Ti 3:1-15; 4:14

PRAYER

We believe that each believer has direct access to God through the Lord Jesus Christ.

Ps 34:17; Jer 33:3; Mat 6:5-13; Mat26:41; Mark 11:24; Luke 11:9; Luke 18:1; John 15:7; Rom 8:26; Eph 6:18; Philippians 4:6; 1 Thess 5:17; 1 Tim 2:1-4; 1 Tim 2:5; James 5:16; Heb 4:16

MISSIONS

We believe that it is our duty and our priviledge to be and support missionaries, prayerfully and financially, of like mind and faith both on foreign mission fields and at home.

Gen 12:1-3; Ex 19:5-6; Isa 6:1-8; Mat 9:37-38; 10:5-15; 13:18-30, 37-43; 16:19; Mat 22:9-10; 24:14; 28:18-20; Luke 10:1-18; 24:46-53; John 14:11-12; 15:7-8, 16; 17:15; 20:21; Acts 1:8; 2; 8:26-40; 10:42-48; 13:2-3; Rom 10:13-15; Eph 3:1-11; 1Th 1:8; 2Ti 4:5; Heb 2:1-3; 11:39-12:2; 1Pe 2:4-10; Rev 22:17