1.    Scriptures:

We believe in the verbal plenary inspiration of the Bible and in its preservation by God in the Masoretic Hebrew Text (Old Testament), the Greek Textus Receptus (New Testament), and the King James Version English Bible. The Bible is our sole authority in all matters of faith and practice, and the biblical canon of 66 books is complete – nothing shall be added to it nor taken from it.

2.    God:

We believe there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

3.    Jesus Christ:

We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ – including His virgin birth, His sinless life, His vicarious atoning death and shed blood on the cross, His bodily resurrection, and His ascension to the Father’s right hand.

4.    Man’s Condition:

We believe that man is totally depraved – a sinner by nature and by practice – utterly separated from God, lost, and in need of the convicting and regenerating work of the Holy Spirit.

5.    Salvation:

We believe that salvation is the free gift of God, offered by grace alone and received through faith alone in Christ, not earned by works.

6.    Resurrection & Eternity:

We believe in the bodily resurrection of all people – the saved unto everlasting life and the unsaved unto final judgment and everlasting damnation. We believe in a literal heaven of eternal blessedness for the redeemed, and a literal burning hell of fire and brimstone for the lost.

7.    Christ’s Return:

We believe in the visible, personal, imminent return of Jesus Christ prior to His millennial kingdom – that is, we affirm His pre-tribulational, pre-millennial Second Coming as taught in Scripture.

8.    The Church:

We believe in the local New Testament church – a body of baptized believers who have covenanted together to carry out the mandates of God’s Word in obedience to Christ. Christ established the local church as His institution for fulfilling the Great Commission.

9.    Ordinances:

We believe Christ gave two ordinances to the local church: Believer’s Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Baptism is the symbolic immersion of a saved believer in water, picturing the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. The Lord’s Supper is a memorial observance, in which the church partakes of bread and the fruit of the vine, commemorating the Lord’s death and anticipating His return.

10. Security of the Believer:

We believe that once a person has truly accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as personal Savior, he is saved forever and can never be lost. The believer is kept by the power of God and is secure in Christ for all eternity.

11. Satan:

We believe in the reality and personality of Satan – in his present power and evil kingdom in this world, in his deceitful works and wiles, in his defeat through Christ’s work on the cross, and in his ultimate eternal punishment in hell.