FOUNDATIONAL BELIEFS

WE BELIEVE that God the Father, is the personal, transcendent and sovereign Creator of all things in the universe.

WE BELIEVE that God, through the sacrifice of His son, Jesus Christ, desires to have a personal, intimate relationship with us. 

WE BELIEVE in all the fundamental doctrines of orthodox evangelical Christianity.

WE BELIEVE in the inerrancy of Scripture, that the Bible, (Old Testament and New Testament), is the inspired, infallible Word of God, inerrant in the original writings, and that it is the sole authority for governing human behavior.

WE BELIEVE in the doctrine of the Trinity.  That God is eternally existent and has manifest Himself in three separate persons: God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ), and God the Holy Spirit.

WE BELIEVE that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human, that He was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, that He performed miracles, provided vicarious atonement for our sins by His death on the cross, was resurrected bodily by the power of the Holy Spirit, ascended into heaven, in presently seated at the right hand of God the Father, ever living to make intercession for us, and will one day return to the earth.

WE BELIEVE that because God is Holy, and because of our sin nature, all people are initially separated from God, yet accountable to Him for their own sin. However, salvation, redemption and forgiveness of sin is freely offered to all by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.  When a person confesses his/her sin to the Lord Jesus, repents of sin, and accepts Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior, trusting that through Him is the only way to be saved and go to heaven, that person is immediately ‘born again’ and sealed by the Holy Spirit, all his/her sins are forgiven, and that person becomes a child of God, destined to spend eternity in heaven with the Lord.

WE BELIEVE that a person is saved (as described above), by grace through faith in Jesus Christ and that no amount of good works or moral behavior can get anyone to heaven.

WE BELIEVE in a literal heaven and hell where all persons who have one time lived on this earth will spend eternity, either in heaven with God, or in hell eternally separated from God.