Statement of Faith | Value Statements

We believe:

• The Bible is the inspired and only infallible and authoritative written Word of God.
  II Timothy 3:15,17; I Peter 1:23; Hebrews 4:12
• There is one God, eternally existent in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
  Matthew 28:19
• In the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His atoning death, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal future return to earth in power and glory.
  Matthew 1:23-25; Luke 1:33, 35
• In the fall of man and the need for a Savior.
  Genesis 1:26, 27; 2:17; 3:6; Romans 3:24; 5:12-19; 10:8-10; Psalm 103:3; Ephesians 2:8
• The baptism of the Holy Spirit is given to believers who ask for it and that it is distinct from and subsequent to the experience of the new birth.
  Matthew 3:11; John 14:16-17; Acts 1:8, 2:4, 38-39; 8:12-17; 10:44-46; 11:14-16; 15:7-9; 19:1-7
• In the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling, the Christian is enabled to live a holy, wholesome life.
  John 7:37-39; Acts 4:8, 2:42; Mark 16:220
• All nine gifts of the Holy Spirit continue to be expressed in the church today, and subject to the order prescribed by the scriptures.
  I Corinthians 12:4-11
• Water baptism is an act by which believers are immersed in water in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, thereby publicly identifying themselves with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
  Matthew 28:19; Acts 10:47-48, Colossians 2:11-13,3; I Peter 2:24