What We Believe

In the verbal inspiration and inerrancy of the Scriptures, both the Old and New Testaments.

• 2 Timothy 3:16-17
• 2 Peter 1:20-21

Our God is a trinity in unity, manifested in three persons; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

• Matthew 28:19
• 2 Corinthians 13:14
• John 14:16-17

In the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death on the cross, His bodily resurrection, His Ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.

• John 1:1-3, 14
• Isaiah 7:14
• Hebrews 4:15
• Acts 1:9-11

That regeneration (the new birth) by the Holy Spirit for the salvation of lost and sinful mankind, through personal faith in the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, is absolutely essential.

• John 3:3-7
• Ephesians 2:8-9
• Titus 3:5

In a life of holiness, without which no man can see the Lord, through sanctification as a definite yet progressive work of grace.

• Hebrews 12:14
• 1 Thessalonians 4:3
• 1 Peter 1:15-16

In the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, received subsequent to the new birth, with the speaking in other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance, as the initial physical evidence.

• Acts 2:4
• Acts 10:44-46
• Acts 19:6

In water baptism by immersion and in the Lord's Supper.

• Matthew 28:19
• Romans 6:4
• 1 Corinthians 11:23-26

In the gifts of the Spirit as enumerated in 1 Corinthians 12-14 being exercised and practiced as manifest in the early church.

• 1 Corinthians 12:1-11
• 1 Corinthians 14:1

In divine healing as provided for in the atonement.

• Isaiah 53:4-5
• James 5:14-16
• 1 Peter 2:24

In the premillennial second coming of Jesus. First, to resurrect the righteous dead and to catch away the living saints to Him in the air. Second, to reign on the earth a thousand years.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
• Revelation 20:4-6