What We Believe

We believe that God is an invisible, personal, living and acting Spirit, distinguished from all other spirits by several kinds of attributes: metaphysically God is self-existent, eternal, omnipresent and unchanging; intellectually God is omniscient (including all future events), faithful and wise; morally God is completely good, love, holy, peaceful, just, jealous and wrathful; existentially God is free, authentic and omnipotent; relationally God is both transcendent and eminent.
(Exodus 3:13-15; 6:3; 15:11; Leviticus 11:44; Deuteronomy 6:4; Psalms 19:1-4; 90:2; 102:12; 139:1-6; Is. 45:5-7; 44:8-10; Jeremiah 32:17; Malachi 3:6; John 4:24; 5:26; James 1:17; 1 John 4:8; Revelation 1:8, 4:8)

We believe that God the Father demonstrates fatherly kindness to all as Creator but He is Father only to those who become children through faith in Jesus Christ. God the Father created all things through His Son. God furthermore holds all things together through His Son. The Father is the initiator in redemption as it was He who sent the Son to die and through that death to pay for the sin of the world. God the Father does all that He pleases in order to display His glory to the world.
(Genesis 1:1; 2:7; Exodus 3:14; 6:2-3; 15:11ff.; 20:1ff.; Leviticus 22:2; Deuteronomy 6:4; 32:6; 1 Chronicles 29:10; Psalm 19:1-3; Isaiah 43:3,15; 64:8; Jeremiah 10:10; 17:13; Matthew 6:9ff.; 7:11; 23:9; 28:19; Mark 1:9-11; John 4:24; 5:26; 14:6-13; 17:1-8; Acts 1:7; Romans 8:14-15; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Galatians 4:6; Ephesians 4:6; Colossians 1:15; 1 Timothy 1:17; Hebrews 11:6; 12:9; 1 Peter 1:17; 1 John 5:7)

We believe that the Holy Spirit is the eternal and co-equal third person of the Trinity who was sent forth from the Father and Son to convict the world of sin, righteousness and judgment.  He regenerates, sanctifies and empowers all who believe in Jesus Christ.  He indwells every believer upon the moment of salvation and seals them in view of the coming day of redemption.  As the sacred communicator, he communicates divine truth objectively and externally by means of the inspiration of Scripture, and subjectively and internally by means of the direct illumination and application of Scripture to the human heart and mind that we might know the God through the mind of Christ. As the divine helper, he compensates for human deficiency by empowering the church to carry out the Great Commission and dispersing, as he sees fit, gifts among the Church which are for the common good and building up of the church as it carries out its mission.
(Genesis 1:2; Judges 14:6; Job 26:13; Psalms 51:11; 139:7ff.; Isaiah 61:1-3; Joel 2:28-32; Matthew 1:18; 3:16; 4:1; 12:28-32; 28:19; Mark 1:10,12; Luke 1:35; 4:1,18-19; 11:13; 12:12; 24:49; John 4:24; 14:16-17,26; 15:26; 16:7-14; Acts 1:8; 2:1-4,38; 4:31; 5:3; 6:3; 7:55; 8:17,39; 10:44; 13:2; 15:28; 16:6; 19:1-6; Romans 8:9-11,14-16,26-27; 1 Corinthians 2:6-16; 3:16; 12:3-11,13; Galatians 4:6; Ephesians 1:13-14; 4:30; 5:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:19; 1 Timothy 3:16; 4:1; 2 Timothy 1:14; 3:16; Hebrews 9:8,14; 2 Peter 1:21; 1 John 4:13; 5:6-7; Revelation 1:10; 22:17)

We believe that the penalty for our sin is death. This death occurs not only physically but spiritually as well. The only way our situation can be corrected is through the redemptive initiative of God the Father as He sent the Son to die on the cross as our substitute and as the perfect payment for sin. We are saved from the penalty of sin by grace alone through placing our faith alone in Christ’s finished work alone. There is no work we can do to earn our salvation or to add to it. When we trust Jesus to do as He promised, we are saved from sin, declared righteous in Him, set aside as holy and committed to God, and sealed in the Holy Spirit until the promised day of redemption, thus being eternally secure. We believe this salvation is entirely the work of the Holy Spirit as He convicts humanity of sin and righteousness and draws us to God the Father through Jesus Christ.
(Genesis 3:15; Exodus 3:14-17; 6:2-8; Matthew 1:21; 4:17; 16:21-26; 27:22-28:6; Luke 1:68-69; 2:28-32; John 1:11-14,29; 3:3-21,36; 5:24; 10:9,28-29; 15:1-16; 17:17; Acts 2:21; 4:12; 15:11; 16:30-31; 17:30-31; 20:32; Romans 1:16-18; 2:4; 3:23-25; 4:3ff.; 5:8-10; 6:1-23; 8:1-18,29-39; 10:9-10,13; 13:11-14; 1 Corinthians 1:18,30; 6:19-20; 15:10; 2 Corinthians 5:17-20; Galatians 2:20; 3:13; 5:22-25; 6:15; Ephesians 1:7; 2:8-22; 4:11-16; Philippians 2:12-13; Colossians 1:9-22; 3:1ff.; 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24; 2 Timothy 1:12; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 2:1-3; 5:8-9; 9:24-28; 11:1-12:8,14; James 2:14-26; 1 Peter 1:2-23; 1 John 1:6-2:11; Revelation 3:20; 21:1-22:5)