Beliefs 'n Values

The Bible is the verbally inspired Word of God, inerrant in the original manuscripts and being the infallible rule in life.

Man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam's sin the human race fell, inherited a sinful nature and became alienated from God.  Man is totally depraved and rendered completely powerless to save himself from his lost condition.

Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, Who became man without ceasing to be God.  He was conceived by the Holy Spirit in and was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, did miracles, died on the cross to provide for our redemption.  He rose bodily from the dead and ascended into Heaven, and is presently interceding for us as our Advocate and High Priest. 

Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through His death on the cross, as our representative, vicarious and substitutionary sacrifice; and that our justification is fully attested by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead.  Man's alienation can be removed only by accepting, through faith, God's gift of salvation, which was made possible by Christ's death.

Salvation is the gift of God brought to man by grace and received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and that all who receive Him are born from above (born again) of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God. The redeemed are kept by the power of God and that God's Word clearly forbids the use of Christian liberty as an occasion to give license to the flesh.

The Holy Spirit is a Person who convicts the world of sin, righteousness and judgment; and that He regenerates the redeemed.  There is one baptism of the Holy Spirit, which places the believer in Christ into the Body of Christ (His Church), indwelling, sealing and carrying on the work of sanctifying the believer until the day of redemption.

The Holy Spirit is the Divine Teacher who guides believers into all truth; and that it is our privilege and responsibility to be filled with the Holy Spirit.

Faith provides the foundation for living the Christian life from start to finish -- without faith it is impossible to please God.  God does hear and answer the prayer of faith, in accordance with His own will, for the sick and afflicted, but do not accept the teaching that the divine healing of the body is in the atonement, for this present age, in the sense that salvation and forgiveness are in the atonement.

God ordained the church and gives spiritual gifts to every Christian for the perfecting of the saints and the building up of the body of Christ.  All believers should live in such a manner as not to bring reproach upon our Savior and Lord; and that separation from worldliness is commanded by God.  Being conformed to the image of Christ is the goal, that we may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death; if by any means we might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. 

Satan is a real personality, the author of sin and the cause of the fall; that he is the open and declared enemy of both God and man, and that he shall be eternally punished in the lake of fire.

The Lord Jesus Christ is coming again to this world to establish His kingdom.  His coming will be personal, imminent and premillenial.  The Scriptures teach that those who through faith are justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ will spend eternity with Him in full enjoyment of God's presence and that those who through impenitence and unbelief refuse to accept God's offer of mercy will spend eternity in everlasting punishment.  Each of us shall give a full account of ourselves to God.