What We Believe
General statement of belief
- That Jesus Christ is the son of the living God, and the only saviour from sin.
- That Jesus Christ is the great physician and the healer of the body through the atonement.
- That Jesus Christ is the baptiser with the Holy Spirit, today just as he was on the day of Pentecost.
- That Jesus Christ is the soon coming king, coming back to earth again as the only hope for a dying world.
- That Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday and today and forever
Creedal statement
We believe:
- In the verbal inspiration of the original scriptures
- In the absolute trinity of the eternal God-head
- In the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ
- In the personality and the deity of the Holy Spirit
- In the reality and the personality of the Devil
- In the natural depravity of the human race
- In the substitutionary atonement
- In the propitiation for sin only by the blood of Christ.
- In the full salvation by grace through faith and not of works
- In the divine healing through the atonement and prayer for the sick
- In the personal baptism of the Holy Spirit
- In the necessity of the new birth
- In water baptism by immersion at an age of accountability
- In the true church composed of all blood washed believers
- In the evangelism of the heathen and the nations of the world
- In obedience to civil government
- In divorce only on New Testament scriptural grounds
- In church government, loyalty and obedience to those in authority over us in the Lord
- In tithing as God’s financial plan
- in the restitution for past wrongs whenever possible
- In the open table at the Lord’s supper
- In the maintenance of good works and holy living
- In the victorious life over sin, self and bad habits by Bible study and a prayer life.
- In Christian perfection and holiness, through absolute surrender and consecration.
- In Christian modesty in matters of dress and wearing apparel
- In the keeping of the Lord’s day as a matter of privilege rather than law.
- As regards recreation – liberty of conscience and a Godly example to the world.
- In the immortality and conscious existence of the soul
- In the resurrection of our literal bodies, the just and the unjust.
- In a literal heaven and life everlasting for all true believers
- In a final day of judgement for the incorrigible wicked
- In the everlasting punishment of the impenitent
- In the personal, literal, bodily pre-millennial coming of Jesus Christ.
- In a future, literal, bodily pre-millennial coming of Jesus Christ.
- In a future, literal 1000 year reign of Christ on earth with His Saints
- In the judgement seat of Christ where the saints will be finally rewarded for their deeds of commission and omission.
- In Christian tolerance to all the denominations of Christian faith “In essentials unity; in non-essentials liberty; in all things charity.
