Doctrinal Statement

We believe that God reveals Himself through the creation, preservation, and government of the universe. We believe that God makes Himself most clearly and fully known through the Scriptures, which are the only inerrant and infallible Word of God, our ultimate and final authoritative rule for faith and practice. These Scriptures are made up of 66 books, from Genesis to Revelation, the authority of which depend not upon the testimony of any man or church, and are all to be received as the Word of God. 

We believe that there is but one living and true God, eternally existent in three Persons of one power, substance, and eternity—Father, Son and Holy Spirit. He is perfectly wise, the overflowing fountain of all good. He is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. In all things He is limited by nothing other than His own nature and character. We believe the God we serve is holy, righteous, good, loving, and full of mercy. He is the Creator, Sustainer, and Governor of all that has been made. 

We believe in the true deity and full humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ, such that two distinct natures, divine and human, were inseparably joined together in one person, without conversion, composition, or confusion. We believe in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father and in His personal return in power. 

We believe that Adam was made from the dust of the ground and formed after God’s image and likeness, which likeness was good, righteous, and holy on the sixth day of the creation week. 

Because of Adam’s sin all mankind is born in a state of willing, deceitful rebellion against God. For the salvation of such lost and sinful men, the regenerating new birth by the Holy Spirit is absolutely necessary to produce new life, resulting in repentance toward sin and faith in Christ — produced exclusively through the preaching of the gospel.

We believe that salvation is by grace through faith alone, and that faith without works is dead. We believe that God freely justifies His own, not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous for the sake of Jesus Christ alone. 

We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, and by the Spirit’s indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life, as the Spirit of Christ within us enables us to do freely and cheerfully what the will of God revealed in Scripture requires to be done. We believe that good works are only those which arise from true faith, conform to God’s Word, and are done for His glory. 

We believe God has appointed a day when He will judge the world in righteousness through Jesus Christ. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; those who are saved to the resurrection of eternal life, and those who are lost to the resurrection of unending damnation.

We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. All who are united to Christ as Head of the Church are united to one another in love, and have communion in each other’s gifts and graces. 

We believe the local Church, which is the body of Christ, is the focal point of the work of God in the world today arranged according to the explicit principles of God’s Word, and it is made up of all who believe in Him. We believe the local church is a visible manifestation of the body of Christ. We believe in the celebration of the ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s Table, the gathering of the Saints, and the advance of the Gospel, and all Christians seek to unite in fellowship with such a church (1 Tim 3:15; Acts 2:41; Matt 28:18–20).

We believe that God wonderfully creates each person as immutably male or female and that these two distinct, complementary sexes each bear the image of God (Gen. 1:26-28, 31a; 5:2; Matt. 19:4; Eph. 4:24; Col. 3:10) and should never be denied or confused (Deut. 22:5; Matt. 19:4-6; 1 Cor. 11:11-12, 14-15, 14:33; Eph. 5:22-33; 1 Tim. 2:9-15, 1 Pet. 3:1-7). We believe that men and women are created as equals before God, yet serve distinct, complementary, God given roles in the home and the church (Gen. 1:26-27; Gen. 2:18; Gal. 3:28). We believe the language of gender reflects God's creation of each person as male or female, and we believe gender is not an additional category of identity separable from a person's created sex (Exod. 20:16; Prov. 12:22, 14:5; Zech. 8:16; Jer: 9:3, 5-6, Is. 5:20, 59:13; Eph 4:25; Col 3:9; Rev. 21:8, 22:15).  

As we believe there is a God-appointed link between biological classification at birth as male or female and self-conception as male or female, we expect individuals to present themselves in accord with their biological classification at birth as male or female. Restrooms and other gender-specific spaces (e.g., locker rooms) as well as gender-specific activities (gender-specific sports teams, gender-specific competitions, and etc.) should/must only be used consistent with one’s biological classification at birth.  

We believe that God forbids intimate sexual activity outside of marriage. We believe any form of sexual expression (such as adultery, fornication, homosexual conduct, and pornography) or desire outside of God's good design is immoral, sinful, and offensive to God (Gen. 19:1-29, Lev. 18:1-30, 20:10-21; Deut. 5:21, 22:5; 2 Kgs. 23:7; Prov. 2:16-20, 5:15-20, 6:25. 7:5-22, 21:10; Amos 2:7; Matt. 5:27-30. 15:18 20; Mark 6:18, 7:20-23; Rom. 1:21-31, 13:13-14; 1 Cor. S:1, 6:9-10, 7:36-38; Gal. 5:16-24; Eph. 4:17-24, 5:3 4; Col. 3:5; 1 Thess. 4:3-7; 1 Tim. 1:9-10; 2 Tim. 2:22; Jam. 1:13-15; 2 Pet. 2:14; Jude 6-7; Rev. 2:20 23, 21:8, 22:15). 

We believe that all human life is sacred and created by God in His image. Human life is of inestimable worth because we are the image of God in all dimensions, including pre-born babies, the aged, the physically or mentally challenged, and every other stage or condition from conception through natural death, and are called to defend, protect, and value all human life. (Ps. 139.)