
Reaching Out to Desperate, Hurting People
STATEMENT OF FAITH
We are a church that believes that the Bible is God’s
Word, verbally and fully inspired in the original text and that it is the
supreme and final authority in all matters of faith and conduct.
We believe that there is 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 power. We believe that
He concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of humanity, that He hears and
answers prayer, and that He saves from sin and death all who come to Him through
Christ.
We believe in Jesus Christ, the
divine, eternal, and only begotten son of God. We believe that in His earthly
life He was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, and lived a sinless
life. We believe in His vicarious and atoning death for the sins of the world.
We believe in His bodily resurrection from the dead, His ascension to the right
hand of the Father to make intercession for the saints, and in His personal,
visible return to the world in power and glory.
We believe in the Holy Spirit and
in His personality and deity. We believe that He was sent forth from the Father
to convince the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. We believe
that He is come to regenerate, indwell, sanctify, instruct and comfort the
saints.
We believe that Adam was created
in the image of God; that he sinned and there by incurred physical and spiritual
death; and subsequently all individuals are by nature and by choice sinners and
destitute of all power to save themselves. We believe, therefore that the only
means of salvation of sinful human beings is the regenerating work of the Holy
Spirit on the basis of the atoning work of Christ, through personal faith in
Christ. We believe that everyone will be resurrected. Those who are saved will
be resurrected to eternal life and those who are lost will be resurrected to
eternal damnation.
We believe in the church, the
living spiritual body of which Jesus Christ is the Head and of which all
regenerated people are members. We believe that the Lord commissioned the
church to proclaim to a lost and sinful world that He, Jesus Christ, is the Son
of God who suffered and rose again from the dead on the third day, and that
forgiveness of sins is available to all who trust and obey Him.