Our Beliefs

What we believe about God says everything you need to know about who we are as a church. Our doctrine is rooted deeply in Scripture and in line with a traditional evangelical, Biblical stance. Doctrine is important because it affects how we relate to God, influences our passion for Jesus, and deepens our dedication to His teachings and His Gospel. 

The Bible alone is the authoritative Word of God. It is the supreme authority in determining all doctrinal truths. In its original writing it is inspired, infallible, and inerrant.

(2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21; Proverbs 30:5; Romans 16:25-26)

There is one God, eternally existent in three coequal persons, with one divine nature: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

(John 5:19-23; Genesis 1:26; Matthew 3:16; 17; 28:19; Luke 1:35; Isaiah 9:6; Hebrews 3:7-11)

Jesus Christ is God the Son incarnate, the second person of the Trinity, truly God and truly man. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, performed miracles, died on the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice and atonement for our sins through the shedding of his blood. He arose from the dead on the third day according to the Scriptures, ascended to the right hand of the Father, and will return again in power and glory.

(John 1:1-14; 20:28; 1 Timothy 3:16; Is 9:6; Philippians 2:5-11; 1 Timothy 2:5)

Mankind is created in the image of God, and is special in all of creation. God has blessed us with the breath of life and given us dominion over all animals. God knows and values us even prior to conception. As such, all human life has sanctity: every tribe, tongue, and nation. As a result of sin, mankind is condemned to death and eternal punishment, and is wholly unable to save himself.

(Genesis 1:26-28; 2:7; Jeremiah 1:5; Psalms 139:13-16; Matthew 10:30-31; Isaiah 44:24; 45:1-3; Galatians 1:15; Luke 1:41; Exodus 20:13; Acts 17:24-27a; Romans 5:8; Revelation 7:9; Romans 3:23; 6:23; 1 Corinthians 15:21-22; Matthew 25:46; Revelation 14:11; Matthew 19:26; Ephesians 2:8-9)

We are saved by grace alone through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone: his death, burial, and resurrection. Salvation is a free gift from God, not a result of our good works or of any human effort.

(Jonn 3:18; Ephesians 2:8; Galatians 2:16; 3:8; Titus 3:5; Romans 10:9-10; Acts 16:31; Hebrews 9:22)

Sanctification is the ongoing process of spiritual formation in the life of the Christian, wrought by the Holy Spirit through the application of God's Word, in order to complete the development of Christ’s character within us. It is through the present ministry of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God that the Christian is empowered to live a godly life.

(1 Thesselonians 4:3-8; 5:23; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 6:14-18; Romans 8:29; 12:1-2)

The Holy Spirit manifests his glory through a variety of spiritual gifts to build and sanctify the church, demonstrate the validity of the resurrection, and confirm the power of the Gospel. The biblical lists of these gifts are not necessarily exhaustive, and the gifts may occur in various combinations. These gifts always operate in love and in harmony with the Scriptures and should never be used in violation of biblical parameters.

(Hebrews 2:4; Romans 1:11; 12:4-8; Ephesians 4:16; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31; 14:1-40; 1 Peter 4:10)

The Church is the Body of Christ, the habitation of God through the Spirit, with divine appointments for the fulfillment of Jesus’ Great Commission. Every person who is born of the Spirit is an integral part of the Church as a member of the body of believers. There is a spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.

(Ephesians 1:22; 2:19-22; Hebrews 12:23; John 17:11; 20-23; 1 Peter 2:9-10)

There are two sacraments ordained by Jesus Christ to be observed by the Church.

1. Water Baptism. Following faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the new believer in Christ is commanded by the Word of God to be baptized by immersion in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:19; Acts 2:38)

2. The Lord's Supper. As instituted by Jesus during his incarnation, the Church is to partake together in the elements, representing the body and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, in order to remember Jesus’ sacrificial death on the cross. (Matthew 26:26-29; Mark 16:16; Acts 8:12; 36-38; 10:47-48; 1 Corinthians 10:16; 11:23-25)

God has ordained the covenant of marriage as a lifelong, exclusive relationship between one man and one woman and that all intimate sexual activity, of any kind, outside the marriage relationship, whether heterosexual, homosexual, or otherwise, is a sin and deviates from God’s will (Genesis 2:24-25; Exodus 20:14; 17; 22:19; Leviticus 18:22-23; 20:13; 15-16; Matthew 19:4-6; 9; Romans 1:18-31; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; 15-20; 1 Timothy 1:8-11; Jude 7). God created the human race male and female, and as a result, any behavior with the intent to adopt a gender other than one’s biological sex is contrary to Scripture, and does not honor the Divine Image that God has given humanity (Genesis 1:27; Deuteronomy 22:5). We also hold that all people, regardless of proclivity towards sin, are welcome in the Church, and that the saving work of Christ is effectual to pardon and save from any sin (1 Corinthians 6:9-11).