BELIEFS
1. We
believe in one God, co-existent, co-eternal, and co-equal, in three
Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; distinguishable but indivisible.
(Genesis 1:1,26; Isaiah 7:14, 9:6,
48:12,13,16; Matthew 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14; John 1:1-3; Acts
5:3-4; Hebrews 1:8-12) (NKJV).
2. We
believe in Jesus Christ as the perfect divine, as well as human, Son of
God. We believe that He was born of a virgin as a result of divine
conception and that He lived a sinless life. (Matthew
1:18, 20-23; John 5:25, 8:58, 10:17-18; II Corinthians 5:21;
Philippians 2:5-11; I Timothy 3:16, Hebrews 4:15, 7:26) (NKJV).
3. We
believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross, was buried, rose bodily
from the dead, and ascended to the Father to make atonement between
humanity and God for human sin. (Mark 16:9-20; Luke 24:1-53; John 20-21; Acts 1:3, I Corinthians 15:4; Ephesians 1:20) (NKJV).
4. We
believe that the Bible is God's inspired, inerrant, authoritative and
complete word. We believe it is the final authority for all doctrine
and conduct. (II Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:19-21; Psalm 119:130; Romans 3:2) (NKJV).
5. We
believe that all people are born with a sin nature. We believe that
through faith in Christ as Savior and Lord on account of His shed
blood, death and resurrection, people are justified before God and
forgiven of their sins. We believe by confession of Christ and
repentance from sin, people become new creations in Christ Jesus and
are born again by the work, power, and indwelling of the Holy Spirit. (Psalms 51:5; John 1:12, 3: 3, 5; Acts 2:38; Romans 5:12, 3:23,10:9-10;1Corinthians 12:13; 2Corinthians 5:17) (NIV).
6. We
believe in water baptism by immersion as evidence of faith in Christ
and repentance of sins. We further believe that this baptism is for
personal identification with the death, burial, and resurrection of
Christ and that by this baptism the believer attests to their covenant
relationship with Christ. (Acts 2:38; Romans 6:3-6; Colossians 2:12) (NKJV).
7. We believe in the celebration of the Lord's Supper, also known as Communion. (Matthew 26:26-30; Mark 14:22-26; Luke 22:14-23; I Corinthians 11:17-34) (NKJV).
8. We
believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit to empower the believer to be
Christ's witnesses in all the earth. We believe this gift may be
received at the same time as, or subsequent to conversion, and is most
often evidenced by speaking with other tongues and the gifts of the
Spirit manifested as the Spirit wills. (Acts 1:8, 2:38-39; I Corinthians 12) (NKJV).
9. We
believe that Jesus has given five ministry gifts to equip the Church to
do the work of ministry: apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and
teachers, and that all of these still exist and are to be manifest in
the body of Christ.(Ephesians 4:11; 1Corinthians 12:27-28) (NKJV).
10. We
believe the Holy Spirit has bestowed gifts on the Church and that these
gifts are to function until the return of Christ and will be manifest
in this Church. (Romans 12:3-8; I Corinthians 12 & 14; I Peter 4:10-11 (NKJV).
11. We
believe in the literal physical resurrection of the dead in the last
day, the righteous to a resurrection with Christ, and the unbelieving
to a resurrection of damnation.(Daniel 12:2-3; Matthew 25:31-46; John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 15 (NKJV); 1Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 20:11-15) (NLT).
12. We
believe in heaven as the eternal reward for the believer. We believe in
the new heavens, the new earth and the New Jerusalem as the final
destiny for the believer. We also believe in an eternal, literal hell
as the final destiny of the unbeliever. (Matthew
5:12 & 7:21; Mark 9:44-48; Luke 10:20 & 16:19-31;II Corinthians
5:1; Philippians 1:21-25 & 3:20-21; 2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21)
(NKJV).
13. We believe in the literal physical return of Christ to the earth for His Church.(I Thessalonians 4:13-18; 1Corinthians 15:51-57) (NKJV)..
14.We believe in the progressive sanctification of believers by the work of the Holy Spirit resulting in Christ-likeness.(Leviticus 19:2; Leviticus 20:26; 2Corinthians 7:1; Ephesians 4:22-24; 1Thessalonians 5:23; Hebrews 12:10; 2Peter 1:3-8; 1John 3:2-3)
Worship
God Passionately 
