THE HOLY SCRIPTURES

    We believe that the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testament are verbally inspired of God and inerrant in the original writings; that God has perfectly and completely preserved His Word; that the Scriptures are, and do not merely contain, the Word of God; that they afford the basis for our doctrine, practice, and habits both in public and private life; and that they are the supreme and final authority.

THE GODHEAD

    We believe in the one living and Triune God Who is the perfect and infinite Spirit and the source and end of all things; that He is eternally existing in three persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit; and these three persons of the Godhead each possess equally the perfections of personality, self-existence, immutability, truth, love, holiness, omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence.

THE CREATION

    We believe that the Genesis account of creation is to be accepted literally and not allegorically or figuratively; that man was created directly in God's own image and after His own likeness; that man's creation was not a matter of evolution or evolutionary change of species, or a development through interminable periods of time from lower to higher forms; and that all animal and plant life were made directly by God in six literal, twenty-four hour periods.

THE PERSON OF SATAN

    We believe that Satan was once holy and enjoyed heavenly honors, but, through pride and self-centered ambition to be as the Almighty, fell and drew after him a host of angels; that he is now the malignant prince of the power of the air and the unholy god of this world whose powers are limited by the permissive will of God.

THE NATURE OF MAN

    We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God; that in Adam's sin the race fell, inherited a sinful nature, andbecame alienated from God; and that man is totally depraved and utterly unable, of himself, to remedy his lost condition.

THE CHURCH

    We believe that the Church universal, designated in the Scriptures as the body and espoused bride of Christ, is a spiritual organism made up of all born-again persons of this present age; and that the establishment and continuance of local churches is clearly taught and defined in the New Testament.

THE SALVATION OF MAN

    We believe that the salvation of man is and always has been wholly of grace through faith and made possible through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, the only atonement for sins; that the death of the Lord Jesus Christ for man was a voluntary substitution of Himself in the sinner's place, the just dying for the unjust, the Lord bearing man's sins in His own body on the tree that man might be pardoned and receive the gift of eternal life; and that no man is justified before God by any works of righteousness which he has done, but solely through faith in the Redeemer's shed blood; that all the redeemed, once saved, are kept by the power of God and are thus secure in Christ forever!

SPIRITUAL GIFTS

    We believe that God is sovereign in the bestowing of all his gifts; that the gifts of evangelists, pastors, and teachers are sufficient for the perfecting of the saints today; that speaking in tongues and the working of authenticating miracles gradually ceased as the New Testament Scriptures were completed and their authority established; that even though sickness together with every disorder and evil in human life are effects of the fall of man, divine forgiveness of sins are in His atonement; and that God does hear and answer the prayer of faith, in accord with His own will, for the sick and afflicted.

HUMAN SEXUALITY

    We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity should be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman. We believe that any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, bestiality, incest, fornication, adultery, and pornography are sinful perversions of God's gift of sex.

THE LAST THINGS

    We believe that the souls of the redeemed at death are absent from the body and present with the Lord, where, in conscious bliss, they await the first resurrection when the spirit, soul, and body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord; that the souls of unbelievers remain after death in conscious misery until the second judgment, when body, soul, and spirit reunite; that they shall appear before the Great White Throne Judgment, and shall be cast into the Lake of Fire, not to be annihilated, but to suffer everlasting conscious punishment; and that the return of Christ for His bride, the Church, will be pre-tribulational and pre-millennial.

ABORTION

    We believe that human life begins at conception and that the unborn child is a living human being. Abortion constitutes the unjustified, unexcused taking of unborn human life. Abortion is murder. We reject any teaching that abortions of pregnancies due to rape, incest, birth defects, gender selections, birth or population control, or mental well-being of the mother are acceptable. A complete, unabridged statement of faith, which includes scripture references, is available upon request.