What We Believe

SCRIPTURES

We believe that holy men of old wrote the Bible as they were moved by the Holy Spirit (2 Peter 1:21), which harmonizes with 2 Timothy 3:16, which teaches that all Scripture is inspired (literally “God breathed”) or “breathed out by God”. They wrote the very exact message God intended without any omissions, additions, or error. We believe the King James Bible to be the inspired and infallible Word of God through preservation and accept only the King James Version as the official standard of use in the English language and will only use the 1960 Reina-Valera in the Spanish language.

TRINITY

We believe there is but one true and living God whose essence is spirit and who exists in a Trinity of equal persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and that they are each equal and infinite in their being, power, glory, and attributes. These three are ONE. We believe that God was before the foundation of the world.  He is the Alpha and Omega (The Beginning and The End). (1 John 5:7-8, I Corinthians 8:6).

THE FATHER

We believe that God the Father is the First Person of the divine Trinity who is absolute in His deity possessing all the attributes of deity and equal with the Son and the Holy Spirit.  (John 1:1).

JESUS CHRIST

We believe in the absolute deity of Jesus Christ our Lord and that he shares equally in all the attributes of deity with the Father and the Holy Spirit. We believe in his virgin birth, in His perfect and sinless humanity, in His miracles and their literalness, in His substitutionary, satisfactory, propitiatory, atoning death on Calvary, in His bodily resurrection, in His intercessory ministry, and in His personal return for the Church.

HOLY SPIRIT

We believe in the absolute and full deity of the Holy Spirit, the Third Member of the blessed Trinity, who is equal with the Father and the Son. It was the Father who gave His Son, the Son who gave His life, and it is the Holy Spirit who today gives life spiritually to those who believe in Christ. He indwells the believer and empowers him and Christ’s Church for service giving the various gifts to the members of the body of Christ to aid the Church in accomplishing the Great Commission.

SALVATION

We believe in salvation by grace totally apart from any human merit. Salvation is bestowed by a gracious God upon unworthy man conditioned solely upon his faith in Jesus Christ and His finished work on Calvary (Ephesians 2:8-10; John 3:16). We believe by accepting Jesus as your savior is how you gain salvation.  It is only through faith and repentance in Jesus Christ that anyone can be saved.  The ONLY way! We believe in once saved, always saved.  No one can work for salvation, however, your faith in Jesus should produce good works (fruits).

NEW BIRTH

We believe that all mankind is born with a sinful and depraved nature and as such is alienated from God; born dead in trespasses and sin. We believe that this condition can only be reconciled by the new birth, which is a work of regeneration wrought by the Holy Spirit (John 3:5-6; Titus 3:5), conditioned upon a personal faith in the atoning work of Jesus on Calvary as sufficient payment for sins (Ephesians 2:8-10).

SECURITY OF THE BELIEVER

We believe that God has given to the true believer Scriptural grounds for knowing positively that he is saved, that God has promised and provided to keep His children even in times of failure, and that God has assured His followers that they are secure in Christ and shall never perish. The life that Christ offers is everlasting, and his redemption is eternal (1 John 5:11-13; John 10:27-30; Romans 8:35-39; Philippians 1:6; Hebrews 9:11- 15, 10:10-14).

RESURRECTION

We believe in the future bodily resurrection of the believer; at which time he will receive a resurrected glorified body. The new body will be joined with the soul so that the child of God will spend eternity to come as a body/soul being. We believe likewise that the unbeliever will be resurrected with a body and soul, which will forever suffer the torments of Hell (Luke 16:19-31; Mark 9:43-49).

JUDGMENT

We believe in the future Judgment Seat of Christ at which time the believer will stand before Christ and be judged for the deeds done in the body whether they be good or bad (2 Corinthians 5:10; 1 Corinthians 3:8-15). We also believe in the Great White Throne Judgment for the unsaved where their lives will be reviewed and judged according to their works, which will determine the degree of their “torments” (Luke 16:23) in the eternal flames of Hell (Revelation 20:11-15).

DEVIL

We believe in the existence of a literal personal evil and malicious being called Satan, or the Devil, who led a rebellion against God at some point after his creation and was cast out of Heaven along with the angels who followed him. He and his demonic hordes seek to tempt men to sin. His doom, and that of mankind who follow him, is the lake of fire where they shall one day be banished and shut up forever.   We believe that Satan knows his time is limited and is doing all he can to seek out and destroy lives.  We also believe that through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, that Satan has already lost.

CREATION

We believe in the literal Genesis account of God’s creating this earth and man and that he ended his work and rested on the seventh day sanctifying it as a day of rest (Genesis 1:1-2:2-3).

CHURCH ORDINANCES

We believe in the ordinance of baptism, through the local church.  Water baptism is a public profession of faith and symbolizes that the old man has been buried and raised to walk in newness of life. Baptism is only for those who have repented of their sins and have accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.  Baptism does NOT save anyone!

We believe in the ordinance of The Lord’s Supper, through the local church.  This is for those that have been saved and have examined their walk with God before participating in communion.  The Lord’s Supper symbolizes the body and blood of Jesus that was shed on Mt. Calvary.  One should never participate in this without first examining their heart.

MARRIAGE

We believe in the Sacred Holy Biblical marriage between one man and one woman.  We believe that any union outside of what God sanctioned, is an abomination according to scripture.  We believe that God placed the man as the leader of the church and likewise, the husband as the leader of the family, to lead, teach, love, correct and discipline according to scripture. (Genesis 1:27, Genesis 2:21-24, Hebrews 13:4).

DIVORCE

We believe divorce is against what the Bible teaches, and one should focus on those Biblical Principals to keep their marriage Holy in the sight of God.  (Leviticus 21:14, Leviticus 22:13, Numbers 30:9, Deuteronomy 24:1&3, Isaiah 50:1, Jeremiah 3:8, Matthew 5:31-32, Matthew 19:7, Mark 10:4).

THE LOST

We believe that God created all things by His Word and that all things were made perfectly, until the fall of man.  We believe that there is still hope for the lost, until they draw their last breath of life.  Jesus despises sin, but He loves the sinner so much that He gives many chances to repent.  One day, it could be too late. (Genesis 6:3, Revelation 20:10, Revelation 20:14-15).

AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY

We believe that The Bible is clear and does not specify an age.  While there are children that develop and learn differently, here is what scripture says about it: “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.” (James 4:17).