1.  The Scriptures
We believe that "all Scripture is given by inspiration of God," by which we understand that both Old and New Testaments are verbally inspired by God and are inerrant (completely truthful) and infallible (totally trustworthy). We believe that all Scriptures center about the Lord Jesus Christ in His Person and work in His first and second comings, and hence, no portion of the Bible is properly read or understood until it leads to Him. We also believe that Scriptures were designed for our practical instruction in holly living, and that they are the final authority in matters of faith and practice (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21; Hebrews 4:12; Psalms 19:7-11; Romans 15:4).

2.  The Godhead

We believe that there is one God, eternally existing in three persons - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit and that these three are one God, having precisely the same nature, attributes, and perfections. Further, we believe that each Person of the Triune Godhead is worthy of precisely the same worship, honor, confidence and obedience (Matthew 28:18-19; Luke 3:21-22; 2 Corinthians 13:14).

3.  The Lord Jesus Christ

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God, is true God and true man, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary (Matthew 1:18-23; Luke 1:30-35; John 1:1,14,18; 3:16; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 1:15-20; Hebrews 1:1-3).  We believe that Jesus Christ, who knew no sin, died a substitutionary death on Calvary for the whole world, being made sin for us; that He arose bodily from the grave; that He ascended into Heaven, where He now is our advocate and High Priest at the right hand of the Father (Isaiah 53:5-6; Luke 24:39; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 4:14; 7:25-26).

4.  Man Created and Fallen

We believe that man was originally created in the image and after the likeness of God and that he fell through sin and, as a consequence of his sin, lost his spiritual life, becoming dead in trespasses and sins, and that he became subject to the power of the devil. We also believe that this spiritual death, or total depravity of human nature, has been transmitted to the entire human race of the man, the Man Christ Jesus alone being excepted; and hence that every child of Adam is born into the world with a nature which not only possesses no spark of divine life, but is essentially and unchangeably bad apart from divine grace (Genesis 1:26; 2:17; 6:5; Psalms 14:1-3; 51:5; Jeremiah 17:9; John 3:6; 5:40; 6:53; Romans 3:10-19; 8:6-7; Ephesians 2:1-3; 1 Timothy 5:6; 1 John 3:8).

5.  Salvation

We believe that, owing to the universal death through sin, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless born again; and that no degree of reformation, however attractive, no baptism or other ordinance, however administered, can help the sinner to take even one step toward heaven; but a new nature imparted from above, a new life implanted by the Holy Spirit through the Word, is absolutely essential to salvation, and only those thus saved are sons of God. We believe also that our redemption has been accomplished solely by the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, who was made to be sin and was made a curse for us, dying in our place and stead, and that no repentance, no feeling, no faith, no good resolutions, no sincere efforts, no submission to the rules and regulations of any church, nor all the churches that have existed since the days of the Apostles, can add in the very least degree to the value of the blood or to the merit of the finished work wrought for us by Him Who united in His person true and proper deity with perfect and sinless humanity (Leviticus 17:11; Isaiah 64:6; Matthew 26:28; John 3:5, 18: Romans 5:6-9; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 3:13; 6:15; Ephesians 1:7; Philippians 3:4-9; Titus 3:5; James 1:18; 1 Peter 1:18-19, 23).

We believe that the new birth of the believer comes only through faith in Christ and that repentance is a vital part of believing and is in no way, in itself, a separate and independent condition of salvation; nor are any other acts, such as confession, baptism, prayer, or faithful service, to be added to believing as a condition of salvation (John 1:12; 3:16, 18, 36; 5:24; 6:29; Acts 13:39; 16:31; Romans 1:16-17; 3:22, 26; 4:5; 10:41; Galatians 3:22).

We believe that when an unregenerate person exercises that faith in Christ which is illustrated and described as such in the New Testament, he passes immediately out of spiritual death into spiritual life, and from the old creation into the new, being justified from all things, accepted before the Father according as Christ His Son is accepted, loved as Christ is loved, having his place and portion as linked to Him and one with Him forever.  Though the saved may have occasion to grow in the realization of his blessings and to know a fuller measure of divine power through the yielding of his life more fully to God, he is, as soon as he is saved, in possession of every spiritual blessing and absolutely complete in Christ, and is, therefore, in no way required by God to seek a so-called ?second blessing,? or a "second work of grace" (John 5:24; 17:23; Acts 13:39; Romans 5:1; 1 Corinthians 3:21-23; Ephesians 1:3; Colossians 2:10; 1 John 4:17; 5:11-12).

We believe that sanctification, which is a "setting apart" unto God, is manifested as follows:  First, when a person truly accepts Jesus Christ as Savior, he is set apart unto God and is an heir of God and joint heir with Jesus Christ. He is at once fully sanctified in his position in Jesus Christ.  Secondly, however, we believe that he retains his sin nature, which cannot be eradicated in this life. There is, therefore, a progressive sanctification wherein the Christian is to "grow in grace" and to "be changed? by unhindered power of the Spirit (2 Peter 3:18).

Thirdly, we believe that only when a saved person shall see his Lord and become ?like Him? is his sin nature eradicated and his sanctification completed (John 17:17; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 7:1; Ephesians 4:24; 5:25-27; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Hebrews 10:10, 14; 12:10).  We believe that, because of the eternal purpose of God toward the objects of His love, because of His freedom to exercise grace toward the meritless on the ground of the propitiatory blood of Christ, because of the very nature of the divine gift of eternal life, because of the present and unending intercession and advocacy of Christ in heaven, because of the immutability of the unchangeable covenants of God, because of the regenerating, abiding presence of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of all who are saved, we and all true believers everywhere, once saved, shall be kept saved forever.

We believe, however, that God is a holy and righteous Father and that, since He cannot overlook the sin of His children, He will, when they persistently sin, chasten them and correct them in infinite love; but having undertaken to save them and keep them forever, apart from all human merit, He, who cannot fail, will in the end present every one of them faultless before the presence of His glory and conformed to the image of His Son (John 5:24; 10:28; 13:1; 14:16-17; 17:11; Romans 8:29; 1 Corinthians 6:19; Hebrews 7:25; 1 John 2:1-2; 5:13; Jude 1:24; Psalms 37:28).

6.  The Church

We believe that all who are united to the risen and ascended Son of God are members of the Church, which is the body and the bride of Christ. We believe that by the same Spirit all believers in this age are baptized into, and thus become, one body that is Christ?s, whether Jews or Gentiles, and having become members one of another are under solemn duty to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace, rising above all sectarian differences, and fervently loving one another with a pure heart (Matthew 16:16-18; Acts 2:42-47; Romans 12:5; 1 Corinthians 12:12-27; Ephesians 1:2-23; 4:10; Colossians 3:14-15).  We believe that water baptism and the Lord's Supper are the only sacraments and ordinances of the church and that they are a Scriptural means of testimony for the church in this age (Matthew 28:19; Luke 22:19-20; Acts 10:47-48; 16:32-33; 18:7-8; 1 Corinthians11:26).

We believe that we are called with an holy calling, to walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit, and so live in the power of the indwelling Spirit that we will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. But the flesh with its fallen, Adamic nature, which in this life is never eradicated, being with us to the end of our earthly pilgrimage, needs to be kept by the Spirit constantly in subjection to Christ, or it will surely manifest its presence in our lives to the dishonor of our Lord (Romans 6:11-13; 8:2, 4; 12:13; Galatians 5:16-23; Ephesians 4:22-24; Colossians 2:1-10; 1 Peter 1:14-16; 1 John 1:4-7; 3:5-9).

We believe that divine, enabling gifts for service are bestowed by the Spirit upon all who are saved. While there is a diversity of gifts, each believer is energized by the same Spirit, and each is called to his own divinely appointed service as the Spirit may will. In the apostolic church there were certain gifted men - apostles, prophets, evangelist, pastors, and teachers, who were appointed by God for the perfecting of the saints unto their work of the ministry. We believe also that today some men are especially called of God to be evangelists, pastors, and teachers, and that it is to the fulfilling of His will and to His eternal glory that these shall be sustained and encouraged in their service for God (Romans 12:6; 1 Corinthians 12:4-11; Ephesians 4:11).

We believe that, wholly apart from salvation benefits which are bestowed equally upon all who believe, rewards are promised according to the faithfulness of each believer in his service for the Lord, and that these rewards will be bestowed at the judgment seat of Christ after He comes to receive His own to Himself (1 Corinthians 3:9-15; 9:18-27; 2 Corinthians 5:10).  We believe that it is the explicit message of our Lord Jesus Christ to those whom He has saved that they are sent forth by Him into the world even as He has was sent forth of His Father into the world.   We believe that, after they are saved, they are divinely reckoned to be related to this world as strangers and pilgrims, ambassadors and witnesses, and that their primary purpose in life should be to make Christ known to the whole world (Matthew 28:18-19; Mark 16:15; Acts 1:8; 2 Corinthians 5:18-20; 1 Peter 1:17; 2:11).

 7.  The Blessed Hope

We believe that, according to the Word of God, the next great event in the fulfillment of prophecy will be the coming of the Lord in the air to receive to Himself into heaven both His own who are alive and remain unto His coming, and also all who have fallen asleep in Jesus, and that this event is the blessed hope set before us in Scriptures, and  for this we should be constantly looking (John 14:1-3; 1 Corinthians 15:15-52; Philippians 3:20; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Titus 2:11-14).

 8.  The Eternal Estate

We believe that at death the spirits and souls of those who have trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation pass immediately into His presence and there remain in conscious bliss until the resurrection of the glorified body when Christ comes for His own, whereupon soul and body reunited shall be associated with Him forever in glory; but the spirits and souls of the unbelieving remain after death conscious of condemnation and in misery until the final judgment of the great white throne at the close of the millennium, when soul and body reunited shall be cast into the lake of fire, not to be annihilated, but to be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power (Luke 16:19-26; 23:42; 2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9; Jude 6-7; Revelation 20:11-15).