1. We believe that love one for another as Jesus loves the believer, manifests our
discipleship, proves our love for God and symbolizes our authority as a New Testament
church. Love is therefore the great commandment of the LORD Jesus Christ upon which
all other are dependent (Matthew 22:35-40; John 13:34-35; I John 4:7-21; I John 5:1-3;
Revelation 2:4-5).

2. We believe in the infallible, verbal inspiration of the whole Bible and that the Bible is the
all-sufficient rule of faith and practice (Psalm 119:160; II Timothy 3:16-17).

3. We believe in the personal triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, equal in divine
perfection (Matthew 28:19; Acts 2:4; II Corinthians 13:14; John 14:25-26)

4. We believe in the Genesis account of Creation (Genesis 1:2).

5. We believe that Satan is a fallen angel, the archenemy of God and man, the unholy god of
this world, and that his destiny is the eternal lake of fire (Isaiah 14:12-15; Ezekiel 28:11-
19; Matthew 25:41; II Corinthians 4:4; Ephesians 6:10-17; Revelation 20:10).

6. We believe in the virgin birth and sinless humanity of Jesus Christ (Matthew 1:18-20; II
Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:22).
 

7. We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ (John 10:30; John 1:1, 14; II Corinthians 5:19).
 

8. We believe the Holy Spirit is the divine Administrator for Jesus Christ in His churches
(Luke 24:49; John 14:16-17; Acts 1:4-5, 8; Acts 2:1-4).
 

9. We believe that miraculous spiritual manifestation gifts were done away when the Bible
was completed. Faith, Hope and Love are the vital abiding Spiritual Gifts (I Corinthians 12-14).
 

10. We believe that Man was created in the image of God and lived in innocency until he fell
by voluntary transgression from his sinless state, the result being all mankind are sinners
(Genesis 1:26; Genesis 3:6-24; Romans 5:12, 19).
 

11. We believe that the suffering and death of Jesus Christ was substitutionary for all
mankind and is efficacious only to those that believe (Isaiah 53:6; Hebrews 2:9; I Peter
2:24; I Peter 3:18; II Peter 3:9; I John 2:2).
 

12. We believe in the bodily resurrection and ascension of Christ and the bodily resurrection
of His saints (Matthew 28:1-7; Acts 1:9-11; I Corinthians 15:42-58; I Thessalonians 4:13-18).
 

13. We believe in the premillennial, personal, bodily return of Christ as the crowning event
of the Gentile age. This event will include the resurrection of the righteous to eternal
heaven, and the Millenium will be followed by the resurrection of the unrighteous unto
eternal punishment in the lake of fire and that the righteous shall enter the heaven age
(John 14:1-6; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; II Thessalonians 2:8; Revelation 19; Revelation
20:4-6, 11-15; Revelation 21:8)
 

14. We believe that the depraved sinner is saved wholly by grace through faith in Jesus
Christ, and the requisite to regeneration are repentance toward God and faith in the Lord
Jesus Christ and that the Holy Spirit convicts sinners, regenerates, seals, secures, and
indwells every believer (Luke 13:3-5; John 3:6, 16-18; John 16:8-9; Acts 20:21; Romans
6:23; Romans 8:9-11; I Corinthians 6:19-20; Ephesians 2:8-9; Ephesians 4:30; Titus 3:5).
 

15. We believe that all who trust Jesus Christ for salvation are eternally secure in Him and
shall not perish (John 3:36; John 5:24; John 10:27-30; Romans 8:35-39; Hebrews 10:39; I Peter 1:5).
 

16. We believe that God deals with believers as His children, that He chastises the
disobedient, and that He rewards the obedient (Matthew 16:27; Matthew 25:14-23;

John 1:12; Hebrews 12:5-11; II John 8; Revelation 22:12).
 

17. We believe that Jesus Christ established His Church during His ministry on earth and that
it is always a local, visible assembly of scripturally baptized believers in a covenant
relationship to carry out the Great Commission of the Lord Jesus Christ, and each church
is an independent, self-governing body, and no other ecclesiastical body or organization
may exercise authority over it (Matthew 4:18-22; Matthew 16:18; Matthew 28:18-20;
Mark 1:14-20; John 1:35-51; Ephesians 3:21).
 

18. We believe that there are two pictorial ordinances in the Lord’s churches: Baptism and
the Lord’s Supper. Scriptural baptism is the immersion of penitent believers in water,
administered by the authority of the New Testament church in the name of the Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit. The Lord’s Supper is a memorial ordinance, restricted to the
members of the church observing the ordinance (Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 8:12, 38;
Romans 6:4; I Corinthians 5:11-13; I Corinthians 11:1-2, 17-20, 26).
 

19. We believe that there are two divinely appointed offices in a church: pastors and deacons,
to be filled by men whose qualifications are set forth in Titus and I Timothy.
 

20. We believe that all associations, fellowships, and committees are, and properly should be,
servants of, and under control of the churches (Matthew 20:25-28).

21. We believe in freedom of worship without interference from the government and affirm
our belief in civil obedience, unless the laws and regulations of civil government run
contrary to the Holy Scriptures (Romans 13:1-7; I Peter 2:13-15).
 

22. We believe the Biblical definition of marriage is the union between a man and a woman
(Genesis 2:21-24; Matthew 19:4-6; Mark 10:6-9; I Corinthians 7:2-4; Ephesians 5:22-31).
 

23. We believe God designates each individual their gender. God ordained two genders, male
and female. Mankind does not possess the authority to identify themselves differently
than their biological sex assigned by God, and any attempt to alter one’s gender is sin
(Genesis 1:27; 5:2; Matthew 19:4; Mark 10:6; Job 40:8; Jeremiah 13:23).