Beliefs

Beliefs

STATEMENT OF FAITH

  •  We believe that the Bible is the Word of God, fully inspired and without error in the origi­nal manuscript, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and it has supreme authori­ty in all matters of faith and conduct.
  •  We believe in one God eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  We believe in God the Father, perfect in holiness, infinite in wisdom, measureless in the affairs of men, that He hears and answers prayer, and that He saves from sin and death all who come to Him through Jesus Christ.
  • We believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only begot­ten Son, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary. He is true God and true man, sinless in His life, making atonement for the sins of the world through His shed blood.  We believe in His burial, His bodily resurrec­tion, His ascension into Heaven, His High Priestly intercession for His people, and His visible return to the world in power and glory according to His promise.
  • We believe in the Holy Spirit who came forth from God to convince the world of sin, of righteous­ness, and of judgment and to regenerate, sancti­fy, comfort and daily lead those who believe in Jesus Christ.
  • We believe that all men by nature and by choice are sinners, but God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoso­ever believ­es on Him should not perish but have everlasting life. We believe, therefore, that those who accept Christ as Savior and Lord will rejoice forever in God’s presence and those who reject Christ as Savior and Lord will be forever separat­ed from God in a place of everlasting, conscious suffering.
  • We believe that this local Church is composed of regenerated immersed believers, voluntarily united together for the purpose of the worship of God, the fellowship of believers, and the proclamation of the Gospel of Christ throughout the whole world.
  • We believe that our Baptist distinctives are Scripturally sound. They include the competency of the individual soul in direct approach to God; the priesthood of all believ­ers; a regenerate church membership; the symbolic ordinances of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper; the autonomy of this local church and its fellowship with other churches of like faith; and solemn obligation to majority rule within the church with equal rights to all and spe­cial privileges to none; the separation of church and state; and a world-wide program of missionary endeavor in obedience to the final command of our Lord.
  • We believe that the term “marriage” has only one legitimate meaning, and that is marriage sanctioned by God, which joins one man and one woman in a single covenantal union as delineated by Scripture.  Marriage ceremonies performed in any facility owned, leased or rented by this church will be only those ceremonies sanctioned by God, joining one man with one woman as their genders were determined at birth. Whenever there is a conflict between the church’s position and any new legal standard for marriage, the church’s Statement of Faith, doctrines and Biblical positions will govern. (Gen. 2:24; Eph. 5:22-23; Mark 10:6-9; 1 Cor. 7:1-9) We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of marriage as defined above. We believe that any other type of sexual activity, identity, or expression that lies outside of this definition of marriage, including those that are becoming more accepted in the culture and the courts, are contradictory to God’s natural design and purpose for sexual activity. (Gen. 2:24; Gen. 19:5; Lev. 18:1-30; Rom. 1:26-29; 1 Cor. 5:1; 6:9-10; 1 Thess. 4:1-8; Heb. 13:4)