Beliefs
The Bible is God's Word
Every bit of it. Every word and every part is given to us through inspiration. Since it is God's word,
it has authority to direct our lives. It is the only source upon which we base our beliefs and our way of life.
2 Peter 1:20
2 Timothy 3:16,17.
God has always existed in three co-equal, co-eternal persons
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. God the Father is a person, God the Son is a person, and God the Holy Spirit is a person. We worship a living, personal God, not an impersonal force.
Genesis 1:1,26
Matthew 28:19
John 1:1,3; 4:24
Acts 5:3,4
Romans 1 :20
Ephesians 4:5,6
2 Corinthians 13:14.
God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit
are worthy of the same worship, trust, and obedience
Because they have precisely the same nature, attributes, and perfection.
Matthew 28:19,20
Mark 12:29
John 1:1, 14
Acts 5:3
4; 2 Corinthians 13:14
Hebrews 1: 1-3
Revelation 1 :4, 6
Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man at the same time
He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He lived a perfect, sinless human life and died in our place on a Roman cross. He broke the power of death through the resurrection. and ascended to heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father, where he prays for us and represents us.
John 1:18
Luke 1:30
Hebrews 4:15
Hebrews 7:25
Romans 8:34.
Man was created in the image of God, but that he rebelled against God,
chose his own way over God's way, and sinned.
Therefore, God's wrath was against mankind, and mankind was separated from the life of God. Man is totally incapable of making himself right with God.
Genesis 1:26,27, 3:1-24
Romans 3:23, 25, 5:12-28
1 John 1:8
Jesus Christ died in our place on the cross to completely cover
and satisfy God's wrath against our sins.
All who place their faith in him are justified, (declared righteous, or right with God), in God's eyes.
John 10:11, 14-18,22-29
Romans 3:21-26, 5:1-8
Romans 3:21-26
2 Corinthians 5:21.
Every born again person is spiritually baptized by the Holy Spirit.
In other words, all believers today are spiritually placed into the completed saving work of Jesus Christ through the person of Holy Spirit and that the Holy Spirit is given to every believer to live in us, transform us into the image of Christ, and lead us and give us spiritual gifts for the Glory of God and the building up of the body of Christ.
1 Corinthians 12:13 (see all of chapter 12)
2 Corinthians 3:17, 18
Ephesians 2:18-22
Romans 6:5.
Water baptism is the biblical testimony of the professed believer's
spiritual baptism that occurred at salvation.
Acts 2:28-41, 47
Matthew 28:18-20
Acts 8:36-40; 10:47; 18:8
Romans 6:3, 4
1 Corinthians. 12: 13.
In the personal and imminent return of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 1:11
1 Thessalonians 4: 16-17
All who by grace through faith trust Jesus Christ to be their Savior and Lord are born again of the Holy Spirit, and thereby become children of God.
John 1:12-13; 3:3,5
Ephesians 2:8,9
James 1:18
1 Peter 1:23
1 John 3:1-3
In the bodily resurrection of both those who are justified by faith and those who are not.
Those who are justified will spend eternity with Christ, experiencing the blessings and joys of heaven. Those who reject Christ will spend eternity in conscious punishment in the Lake of Fire.
Matthew 25:31-46
John 5:28, 29
Revelation 20:4-6, 11-15
Christians are to meet together regularly for worship, to practice the ordinances of the church, and to encourage one another.
Acts 2:42,46
Hebrews 10:24,25