1. We
believe the Holy Scriptures, composed of the thirty-nine books of the Old
Testament and the twenty-seven books of the New Testament, are the verbally inspired Word and Revelation of God.
The Bible is inerrant, infallible, God-breathed. The initial
miracle of divine inspiration of the original autographs also extends to the divine preservation of a pure text to
this day. Therefore, we have the very Word of God in the English language
preserved in the King James Bible, which is derived from the Hebrew Masoretic
Text and the Greek Textus Receptus. We stand firmly as a King James only
church. Scripture References: Psalm 19:7-11; II Timothy
3:16-17; II Peter 1:16-21; Luke 24:13-28; John 16:12-16; Psalm 12:6-7; Isaiah
40:8; Psalm 138
2. We believe that there is one God, the
source, support, and end of all things, eternally existent in three persons:
Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Scripture References: Genesis 1:1; Genesis 17:1; Exodus 3:14;
Exodus 6:3; Exodus 20:2-3; 15:11; Psalm 83:18; Psalm 90:2; Psalm147:5; Jeremiah
10:10; Matthew 16:16; Matthew 28:19; Mark 1:1; Mark 12:30; John 4:24; 10:30;
John 15:26; John 17:5; Acts 5:3-4; Romans 11:23; I Corinthians 12:10-11; I
Corinthians 8:6; I Corinthians 12:4-6; II Corinthians 13:14; Ephesians 2:18;
Ephesians 4:6; Philippians 2:5-6; II Timothy 1:17; I John 5:7-8; Revelation 4:1
3. We believe in the Genesis
account of creation. Scripture References: Genesis 1
4. We believe that Satan is a fallen
angel, the archenemy of God and man, the unholy god of this world, and that his
destiny is the eternal lake of fire. Scripture
References: Isaiah 14:12-15; Ezekiel 28:11-19; Matt. 25:41; 2
Corinthians 4:4; Ephesians 6:10-17; Revelation 20:10
5. We
believe in the Deity of Jesus Christ, that he was supernaturally begotten by
the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, and that he is completely God and man at the
same time. That he is the only begotten son of God; Therefore the Lord Jesus
Christ is the sinless, omnipotent, omniscient, Saviour of sinners, King of
Kings and Lord of Lords. Scripture References: Matthews 1:20-21;
Luke1:35-36; Luke 2:10-11; John 1:14; John 3:16&18; I John 4:9
6. We
believe in the eternal Deity and personality of the Holy Spirit who is one of
the three Persons of the Trinity. We believe the following are among His
ministries: the restraining of evil in the world to the measure of the divine
will; the conviction of the world regarding sin, righteousness, and judgment;
the calling and regeneration of all believers; the indwelling of those who are
saved; and, the continued filling for power, teaching, and service of all among
the saved who are truly yielded to Him; and the divine administrator for Jesus
Christ in His churches. Scripture
References: Romans 8:28, 29; I Corinthians 1:24; II Thessalonians 2:7;
John 3:6; John 16:7-11; Romans 8:9; Ephesians 4:30, 5:18; Hebrews 1:8-9
7. We believe that the
miraculous spiritual manifestation (sign) gifts were done away with when the
Bible was completed. Faith, Hope, and Charity are the vital and only abiding spiritual
gifts. Scripture References: I Corinthians 12-13; Psalm 138:2
8. We believe that man was
created in the image of God and lived in innocence until he fell by voluntary
transgression from his sinless state. The result being that all mankind are now
sinners. Scriptural References: Genesis 1:26; Genesis 3:6-24; Romans 5:12 & 19
9. We believe that the
suffering and death of Jesus Christ was substitutionary, sufficient, and
efficient for all mankind and reject the false teachings of Calvinism and the
Armenians Scriptural References: Isaiah 53:6; Hebrews 2:9; 1
Peter 3:9; 1 John 2:2
10. We believe that the depraved sinner is saved wholly by
grace through faith in Jesus Christ and the requisites to regeneration are
repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and that the Holy
Spirit convicts sinners, regenerates, seals, secures and indwells every
believer Scriptural References:
Luke 13:3-5; John 3:16-18; Acts 20-21; Rom. 6-23; Eph. 2:8,9; John 3:6; John
16:8,9; Rom. 8:9-11; 1 Cor. 6:19, 20; Eph 4:30; Titus 3:5
11. We believe that Jesus Christ established His church
during His ministry on earth and that it is always a local, visible
assembly of scripturally baptized believers in covenant
relationship to carry out the Commission of the Lord Jesus Christ, and each
church is an independent, self-governing body, and no other ecclesiastical body
may exercise authority over it. We believe that Jesus Christ gave the
Great Commission to the New Testament Churches only, and that He promised the
perpetuity of His churches Scriptural
References: Matt. 4:18-22; Matt. 16:18; Matt 28:19-20; Mark 1:14-20;
John 1:35-51; Eph. 3:21.
12. We believe that there are two pictorial ordinances in the
Lord’s churches: Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Scriptural baptism is the
immersion of penitent believers in water, administered by the authority of a
New Testament church in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The
Lord’s Supper is a memorial ordinance, restricted to the members of the church
observing the ordinance Scriptural
References: Matt. 28:19, 20; Acts 8:12, 38; Rom. 6:4; 1 Cor. 5:11-13; 1
Cor. 11:1, 2 17-20, 26
13. We believe in the premillennial, personal, bodily return
of Christ as the crowning event of the Gentile age. This event will
include the resurrection of the righteous to eternal heaven, and the Millennium
will be followed by the resurrection of the unrighteous unto eternal punishment
in the lake of fire and that the righteous shall enter into the heaven age Scriptural References: John
14:1-6; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; 2 Thess. 2:8; Rev. 19; Rev. 20:4-6 Rev. 20:11-15 Rev.
21:8.