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Our Beliefs

Rooted in
God’s Word.

Biblical convictions that guide our life together.

Explore Our Beliefs
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Drawn from the Word of God

Our foundation

The Scriptures

We believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the Word of God — divinely inspired and without error in the original manuscripts — and the infallible, supreme authority of faith and practice.

The Trinity

We believe in one living and true God, infinitely perfect, eternally existing in three persons — the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit — equal in power and glory.

God the Father

We believe God the Father is an infinite, personal spirit — perfect in holiness, wisdom, power, and love — who hears and answers prayer, and who saves from sin and death all who come to Him through Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ

We believe Jesus Christ is God's eternal Son — true God and true man, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. We believe in His sinless life, His substitutionary atoning sacrifice, His bodily resurrection, His ascension and intercession for His people, and His personal, bodily, imminent return to earth.

The Holy Spirit

We believe the Holy Spirit is a person and is fully God. He convicts the world of sin, regenerates and indwells believers, and distributes spiritual gifts — and He can be grieved when we do not allow Him control of our lives.

Humanity

We believe humanity was created in the image of God, but fell into sin — and is therefore spiritually dead and in need of salvation.

Salvation

We believe salvation is based on the sovereign grace of God, through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ as a substitutionary, atoning sacrifice. It is received by faith in Him as Savior — apart from any human merit, works, or ritual — and all who receive Him are born again into the family of God and are eternally secure.

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Faith, shared together.

The Church

We believe the church is one universal, spiritual body with Jesus Christ as its head, made up of all regenerated persons.

The Ordinances

We practice believer's baptism by immersion, and communion open to all believers.

Satan

We believe Satan is a created being and the embodiment of evil, whose end is eternal confinement.

Last Things

We believe in the bodily resurrection, the final judgment, and the personal, premillennial, imminent return of Jesus Christ to earth.

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