Our Purpose and Mission

The purpose of this church is to glorify God through the edification of the saints and the winning of the lost to salvation in Jesus Christ.

It is our mission to . . . . .

• Learn Christ: Having come to know Christ as our Savior by God’s grace through faith, we endeavor to consistently and progressively learn Him through diligent and systematic study of Him as revealed in the Word of God.
• Love Christ: As our knowledge of Christ grows we will respond to Him with sincere worship consisting of a life devoted to honoring, extolling, and obeying our Lord and Savior. 
• Live Christ: Having been crucified with Christ upon salvation, we seek to yield ourselves to the life of Christ (Who lives within us and is our life), so that His life might be lived out through us to God and others.

Proclaim Christ: to faithfully and earnestly share the Good News of God’s Love and Salvation to any and all, so that they too might be saved.

1. The Scriptures

We believe that the Old and New Testament Books are inspired of God (God breathed) and without error in the original writings, and are of supreme and final authority in faith and conduct. (2 Tim. 3:16-17, John 17:17, 1 Pet. 1:20-21, Psalm 12:6)

2. God

We believe in one God, an eternal, infinite Spirit eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. (Dt. 6:4, Is. 45:5-6, John 4:24, Matt. 28:19; John 10:30)

3. Jesus Christ 

We believe that Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary and is fully God and fully Man. (Lk. 1:35, John 1:1-14, Phil. 2:5-7)       

4. The Holy Spirit

We believe that the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, one with the Father and the Son, the indweller of every believer whereby each is sealed unto the day of the redemption of the body. (Acts 5:3-4, John 14:16-17, Eph. 4:30)

5. Satan 

We believe in the existence and operating power of a real and personal evil spirit opposed to all righteousness and exalting himself against all that God is and has. The evil one is called Satan or the Devil. (Is. 14:12-15, 1 Pet. 5:8)

6. Hell

We believe in a literal hell the place of punishment for the wicked until they are eternally cast into the lake of fire. (Ps 9:17, Rev. 20:13-15)

7. Heaven

We believe in a literal place called heaven, where God’s presence is especially manifested, where angels are, from whence Christ descended and ascended again, where He makes intercession for the saints, and the redeemed will await the eternal kingdom. (Ps.115:3, Jn.1:51, Jn.3:13, Rom. 8:34, Jn.14:1-3)

8. Man

We believe that God created man in His own image and in a state of innocence, but that through the temptation he willfully transgressed and became dead in trespasses and sins, through which his posterity inherit a corrupt nature, being born in sin and under condemnation. (Gen.1:28, Rom.5:12)

9. Salvation

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as the representative substitutionary sacrifice; that He arose from the dead in His glorified body, ascended into heaven as our great High Priest and Advocate; He ever lives to make intercession for us; that all who receive Him by faith are justified on the basis of His shed blood and receive the gift of eternal life by the grace of God; that all who receive eternal life are regenerated (born again) by the Holy Spirit culminating in the redemption of the body, that those who are saved are eternally secured and kept by the power of God. (1 Cor. 15:3-4, Acts 1:9, Rom.8:34, Rom.3:24-26, Eph.2:8-9, Tit.3:5, Rom.8:23, 1Pet.1:5)

10. The Church

We believe in one true church, the mystical body and bride of the Lord Jesus Christ, composed of all believers from Pentecost to the Rapture, into which all believers are baptized (placed into) by the Holy Spirit at salvation. We believe the local church is an organization and covenant between professing believers instituted for the purpose of worship, fellowship, service and the administration of its ordinances (Baptism and the Lord’s Supper). It is self-governing and self supporting. (1Cor.12:12-13, Ac.2:41-42, Eph.5:23)

We believe Baptism is an act of obedience requiring the immersion of believers in water. It is a sign of the new birth and publicly identifies one with Christ. We believe the Lord’s Supper is an ordinance whereby believers show forth the Lord’s death till He comes. (Mat.28:20, 1Cor.11:23-26)

11.  Future Events

We believe that the next major event is the Rapture of the Church (the coming of Christ for His Church). This will be followed by the Great Tribulation, the Second Coming of Jesus Christ to earth and the Millennial Kingdom (1000-year reign of Christ). This time is followed by a final rebellion and judgment of the wicked. The wicked will be cast into the lake of fire, and all the redeemed will dwell forever with Christ in a New Heaven, a New Earth and a New Jerusalem. (1Thes.4:16-17, Dan.9:27, Rev.20-21)

12. Marriage & Sexuality – We believe that God designed and requires marriage to be

between one man and one woman. We believe that a believer must only marry another believer. God also designed the blessing of sexual activity for the exclusive practice between a husband with his wife, and a wife with her husband. Therefore, we believe all forms of marriage and sexual activity outside these parameters to be sin in the eyes of God. We also believe that God purposefully made each person to be the gender according to which they are conceived and born, and must remain so throughout his/her life. (Gen.2:24-25, Heb.13:4, 1Cor.6:9-10, 2 Cor. 6:14, Gen.1:27, Mark 10:6, 1 Thes.4:1-8, Rom. 1:26-29).