Beliefs
GOD:
We believe in the triune personality of God; that is, God the
Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
SCRIPTURE:
We believe the Bible was written by men divinely inspired, and is
a perfect treasury of heavenly instruction, that it has God for its
author, salvation for its end, and truth without mixture of error, for
its matter; and therefore is and shall remain, the true basis of all
Christian union, faith, practice and the supreme standard by which all
human conduct, creeds and opinion should be tried.
The criterion by which the scriptures are to be interpreted is
Jesus Christ.
JESUS CHRIST:
We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, born of a virgin,
and that He lived a perfect, sinless life, died a sacrificial death, and
was raised from the dead and ascended to heaven where He now sits at the
right hand of God.
SALVATION:
We believe that the atonement made by Jesus Christ is the only
basis of salvation, the only means of reconciliation, the only ground of
justification; that man is by nature a sinner, guilty, condemned, lost
and but for the atonement made by Jesus Christ, helpless and hopeless.
CHURCH:
We believe that a church of Jesus Christ is a body of baptized
believers associated together in one place to preach the gospel, to keep
the ordinances and represent the interests of Christ’s kingdom in the
world.
ORDINANCES:
We believe that Jesus Christ appointed two ordinances in His
church to be observed until His return, baptism and the Lord’s Supper.
We believe that both ordinances are symbolic and hold no saving
power in themselves. We
believe that baptism is the immersion in water in the name of the
Trinity of a believer, upon profession of faith, by one duly authorized
by a church of Jesus Christ to perform such service.
MISSIONS:
We believe in missions.
Every Christian, in every legitimate way, all the time,
everywhere, according to ability, ought to seek to spread the knowledge
of Jesus Christ and the way of salvation.