We Believe:
A. The plenary inspiration of the Old and New Testaments
as the
very Word of God.
B. The Triune God - Father, Son and Holy
Spirit. The Deity of the
Lord Jesus
Christ. His substitutionary atonement for sin.
His bodily resurrection
and His personal visible return to earth to
reign in righteousness and glory.
C. The person of the Holy Spirit, who indwells every
believer, and His
work of conviction, regeneration
and sanctification.
D. That all people are by nature separated from God
and are
responsible for their
own sin, but that salvation, redemption, and
forgiveness
are freely offered to all by the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ. When a person repents of sin and accepts Jesus Christ as
personal Savior and Lord,
trusting Him to save, that person is
immediately born again
and sealed by the Holy Spirit, all of
his/her sins are forgiven,
and that person becomes a child of God,
destined to spend eternity
with the Lord.
E. The only true basis of Christian fellowship is Christ's
Agape love,
which is greater that any differences
we possess, and without
which we have no right to claim
ourselves as Christians.
F. Worship of God should be spiritual. Therefore,
we remain flexible
and yielded to the leading
of the Holy Spirit to direct our worship.
G. Worship of God should be inspirational. Therefore,
we give great
place to music in our worship.
H. Worship of God should be intelligent. Therefore,
this ministry is
designed with great emphasis
upon the teaching of the Word of
God, that He might instruct
us how He should be worshipped.
I. Worship of God should be fruitful. Therefore,
we look for his love
in our lives as the supreme
manifestation that we have been truly
worshipping Him.
J. That God the Father is the personal, transcendent,
and sovereign
Creator of all things.
K. That Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human. He
was born of a
virgin, lived a sinless life
provided for the atonement.
L. We seek to teach the Word of God in such a way that
it's
message can be applied to an
individual's life, leading that
person to greater maturity
in Christ.
M. We believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit mentioned
in the
Scriptures, and that they are
valid for today if they are exercised
within the scriptural guidelines.
We as believers are to covet the
best gifts, seeking to exercise them in love that the whole Body of
Christ might be edified. We
believe that love is more important
than the most spectacular gifts,
and without this love all exercise
of spiritual gifts is worthless.
We Reject:
1. The belief that true Christians can be demon
possessed.
2. "5 Point Calvinism" specifically the belief
that Jesus' atonement
was limited, instead we believe
that He died for all people, and
we reject the assertion that
God's wooing grace cannot be
resisted or that He has elected some people to go to hell; instead,
we believe that anyone who
wills to come to Christ may do so.
3. "Positive Confession" (the faith movement belief
that God can be
commanded to heal or work
miracles according to man's will).
4. Human prophecy that supersedes the scriptures.
5. The incorporation of humanistic and secular
psychology and
philosophy into Biblical
teaching.
6. The over emphasis of spiritual gifts, experiential
Biblical teaching.
Optional:
1. We believe that ministry should be simplistic
rather than a
complex bureaucracy, and we
depend on the Holy Spirit to lead,
rather than on fleshly promotion.
2. We await the Pre-tribulation rapture of the
Church, and we believe
that the second coming
of Christ with His saints to rule on the
earth will be personal, pre-millennial,
and visible. This motivates
us to a holy lifestyle, heartfelt worship, committed service, diligent
study of God's Word, regular
fellowship, and participation in adult
baptism by immersion and Holy
Communion.
