Mission and Vision

What We Believe:

• In ALL our beliefs – we show LOVE.
  Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. (1 Corinthians 8:1) If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. (1 Corinthians 13:2)

• In ESSENTIAL beliefs – we have UNITY.
• There is one body and one Spirit–just as you were called to one hope when you were called—one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. (Ephesians 4:4-6)
• In NON-ESSENTIAL beliefs –we have LIBERTY.
• Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. … Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand. … So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God. … So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. (Romans 14:1, 4, 12, 22)

The Essentials We Believe In:

1. THE BIBLE: We believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writings, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life. (II Timothy 3:16; II Peter 1:19 21)
2. ABOUT GOD:  We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. (John 16:12-15; Matthew 28:19)
3. JESUS CHRIST: We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and is true God and true man. (Romans 1:3-4; Matthew 1:18 23; Luke 1:26-35; Philippians 2:6-8)
4. ABOUT HUMAN BEINGS: We believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned, and thereby incurred not only physical death, but also spiritual death which is separation from God; that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, and that those who reach moral responsibility becomes sinners in thought, word and deed. (Romans 1:18-32; Romans 3:9-23)
5. CHRIST’S DEATH AND RESURRECTION: We believe that the Lord Jesus died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood. (Hebrews 9:22; I Peter 1:18-20; Hebrews 10:10; I Peter 3:18). We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into heaven, and His present life there for us, as High Priest and Advocate. (I Corinthians 15:1-20; Hebrews 7:21-25)
6. SALVATION: We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit, and thereby become children of God. (John 1:12-13; John 3:3-18; Romans 10:9-10)
7. THE LAST DAYS: We believe in “that blessed hope”, the personal premillennial, and imminent return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (I Corinthians 15:51-57; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Acts 1:11) We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and unjust, the eternal blessedness of the saved, and the eternal punishment of the lost. (Revelation 20:4-6; John 5:28-29)
8. BAPTISM AND THE LORD’S SUPPER: We believe that baptism is the immersion of a believer, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, in testimony of his faith in the crucified, buried and risen Christ, and in confession that the believer is to be dead to sin and risen to newness of life in Christ Jesus; and that the Lord’s Supper is a commemoration of the Lord’s death “till He comes.” (Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 8:38; Romans 6:1-5; I Corinthians 11:23-31; Luke 22:19-20)