ABOUT US
DOCTRINAL STATEMENTS
THE AUTHORITY OF
SCRIPTURE
Every word of original Scripture is the inspired and infallible word of God.
While the person of Christ is the highest and most impressive revelation of the Father, we consider Scripture to be the normative revelation given to us while we await His return. This means that all other forms of divine revelation, such as dreams, prophecies, and prayers, must perfectly agree with a truthful reading of Scripture before they can be identified as having come from God.
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THE PERSONS OF THE
GODHEAD
We worship a single, unique, uncontested God who named Himself, and we call Him YHWH (Yahweh or Jehovah). Though we cannot comprehend it, God exists in three persons: The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit.
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Each is fully identified and distinct from the others in both name and function; yet, they are each fully God in undivided function. There is one God and there exists no other. Our lack of understanding is because of our own inferior nature.
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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE
CROSS
God is holy and pure and therefore cannot coexist with impurity. Because of our fallen nature which we call sin, we are unable to commune eternally with God and are destined to die, eternally separated from our Creator.
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God cannot decide to ignore our sin.
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To save us from eternal separation, God accused His own Son of our impurity and gave Him up to be killed in our place. Christ's intercessory death is satisfying the wrath of God, taking away the
sin of those who acknowledge and
accept Christ's work on the cross.
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Christ was killed on a Friday by crucifixion and raised Himself from death the following Sunday. He walked with His disciples for forty days before ascending into heaven to return to the
right hand of the Father.
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The resurrection is the most important part of the Christian faith. Without it, we would have no guarantee of the Gospel's effectiveness.
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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE
RESURRECTION
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Baptism does not save a person in the same way a wedding ceremony does not marry two people. Salvation is an experience that occurs in a person's heart and is between the believer and the Holy Spirit.
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Baptism is the public display and confession of that experience. The believer is biblically called to declare his or her salvation among witnesses before being submerged into water and lifted out again, a metaphor for the death and resurrection of Christ of which we are called to partake.
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THE SYMBOL OF
BAPTISM
Christ promises to sanctify the Church before He returns to bring us with Him back into the Kingdom of God. For each of us this looks like a lifelong process of submitting to Scripture and to the economy of God, especially when we don't feel like it.
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It is often grueling and we fail more often than we care to admit, but we are promised glory at the end of it all if indeed we are saved. We cannot reject sanctification and continue to call ourselves saved.
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THE PROMISE OF
SANCTIFICATION
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The Church is a congregant body made of individual believers. Each believer is given a spiritual talent (often called gift) for the purpose of building up the church. The Spirit does not save you and then leave you impotent.
These talents are never for the sake of personal spirituality but are given strictly for the purpose of encouraging or inviting existing or new believers, respectively.
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