Our
Doctrinal Beliefs
1.
The authority and inerrancy of the Scriptures is based upon verbal,
plenary inspiration.
2. The one true
God eternally exists in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
3. God is the Creator
and sustainer of all things and has planned everything for His
glory.
4. Jesus Christ
is both God and man having added to His complete deity a fully
human nature in His incarnation.
5. The Holy Spirit
is a Divine person Who convicts the unsaved and controls the saved.
6. Man was created
by God but in Adam the whole race fell, bringing upon it both
physical and spiritual death.
7. Every person
is totally depraved so that he cannot initiate, maintain or complete
his own salvation.
8. God has provided
for man's salvation by making Christ a substitutionary sacrifice
for sinful man.
9. Believing sinners
are declared righteous based solely upon Christ's work on their
behalf.
10. Christ was
raised from the dead, ascended into heaven where He now carries
out His ministry as High Priest and Advocate.
11. Christ will
return before the Tribulation to take His church from the earth.
12. Christ will
return after the Tribulation to rule upon the earth.
13. All will someday
be included in one of several resurrections from the dead and
stand in judgment before God.
14. The saved will
be given everlasting life and the unsaved will be given everlasting
punishment.