What We Believe

The Bible is true and divinely inspired, revealing the person and work of Jesus as the only hope for humanity and guiding the Christian in all manners that pertain to this life and godliness. The Bible reveals that there is one eternal God, who is the Creator and is perfect in righteousness and love, that eternally exists in three distinct, yet equal persons: Father, Son, and Spirit.

God the Father, according to the purposes of his grace, reigns over all of creation and humanity, both of which were created and are sustained by his word, all for the praise of his glory. God the Father made a way for men and women to be adopted as his sons through faith in his eternal Son, Jesus Christ, whom he gave to be crucified for the sins of many.

Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man, and on while on earth, he perfectly revealed and did the will of God, and he made provision for the redemption of mankind through his substitutionary death and his resurrection, which is to be received through faith in him. Jesus Christ is now ascended into Heaven, waiting to return in power and glory, interceding for those who have faith in him, reigning as Lord of all, and leading his Church as its head.

God the Spirit convicts the world regarding their unbelief, leading some into faith and repentance, indwelling and empowering those believers to walk in righteousness, progressively conforming them into the image of Christ, and permanently keeping them until the day they acquire their inheritance given by grace.

Man was created for the purpose of glorifying God and enjoying him forever, but as a result of man’s willful rebellion, all men and women everywhere are totally depraved in nature, bound for eternal destruction, and without hope-apart from salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.

Salvation is obtained through us turning from our sins and turning in faith to Jesus Christ and putting our full trust in his completed work on the Cross, not gained or secured by works. There is no salvation apart from Jesus Christ.



Salvation, in its broadest sense, includes regeneration (new birth), justification (legal declaration of righteousness), sanctification (Spirit-empowered growth in Christlikeness), and glorification (the culmination of salvation in our resurrected bodies in the new Heaven and new earth).

A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is an autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel; observing the two ordinances of Christ, governed by His laws, exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word, and seeking to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. Each congregation operates under the Lordship of Christ through democratic processes. In such a congregation each member is responsible and accountable to Christ as Lord. Its two scriptural offices are that of pastor/elder/overseer and deacon. While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor/elder/overseer is limited to men as qualified by Scripture. The New Testament speaks also of the church as the Body of Christ which includes all of the redeemed of all the ages, believers from every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation.

Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer’s faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Saviour, the believer’s death to sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus. It is a testimony to his faith in the final resurrection of the dead. Being a church ordinance, it is a prerequisite to the privileges of church membership and to the Lord’s Supper.

The Lord’s Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members of the church, through partaking of the bread and the fruit of the vine, memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.

God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human society. It is composed of persons related to one another by marriage, blood, or adoption. Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime. It is God’s unique gift to reveal the union between Christ and His church and to provide for the man and the woman in marriage the framework for intimate companionship, the channel of sexual expression according to biblical standards, and the means for procreation of the human race.



The husband and wife are of equal worth before God, since both are created in God’s image. The marriage relationship models the way God relates to His people. A husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the church. He has the God-given responsibility to provide for, to protect, and to lead his family. A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ. She, being in the image of God as is her husband and thus equal to him, has the God-given responsibility to respect her husband and to serve as his helper in managing the household and nurturing the next generation. Parents are to teach their children spiritual and moral values and to lead them, through consistent lifestyle example and loving discipline, to make choices based on biblical truth. Children are to honor and obey their parents.