Our Statement of Faith

The Scriptures
We believe the Bible to be the inspired Word of God; that it is the only complete and final revelation of God's will to man; and that it is the supreme standard of all faith and practice.
II Timothy 3:16,17; II Peter 1:19-21
God
We believe the scriptures reveal God as eternally existing, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, and manifesting Himself in Three Persons-Father, Son, and Holy Spirit-one in essence and power.
Ex. 3:14, Gen. 1:1, Matt. 28:19, IICor. 13:14
The Person and Work of Jesus Christ
We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ; His virgin birth; His sinless life; His substitutionary death on the cross for our sins; His physical resurrection from the grave; His ascension to the right hand of God where He ever liveth to make intercession for believers; and His personal, visible, bodily return to the earth at the end of the age.
Matt. 1:18, John 1:14, Matt. 20:28, I Peter 1:18, I Cor. 15:14, Acts 1:11, I Thess. 4:16,17
The Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit is a person, possessed of all the distinctive Divine attributes. We believe He is the Administrator of the things of God- convincing of sin, revealing the truth, energizing believers in matters of prayer and service and restraining evil "until He is taken out of the way."
IIThess. 2:7, Psa. 139:7-10
Man
We believe God made man in His own image and that man came into the world by direct creation of God and not by evolution; that this creative act of God was separate and distinct from any work of God. We believe the Scriptures record of the fall of man through disobedience to God and that by nature man is "dead in trespasses and sins."
Gen. 1:26, 9:6, Rom. 5:12, Psa. 53:5
Salvation
We believe salvation to be by grace through faith wholly apart from human merit and that every individual is a sinner by birth and by choice and therefore must exercise personal faith in the redeeming work of Christ on Calvary in order to be saved.
Eph. 2:8-9, Titus 3:5, Psa. 51:5, Rom. 3:23, 10:9-10
Satan
We believe in the reality and personality of Satan- that he is a created being once known as "the anointed Cherub that covereth". That through pride he fell- that He is the "God of this world" and the "Prince of the power of the air"-and that he will be judged at the revelation of Jesus Christ and ultimately cast into the lake of fire.
Matt. 13:14, john 8:44, Eph. 2:2, Rev. 20:10
Heaven and Hell
We believe in a heaven of eternal bliss for all who through faith in the Lamb of God, have become the children of God, and the lake of fire of eternal judgment for all who have not received the forgiveness of sins which is through Christ Jesus.
Rev. 21:1-8
The Church and its Ordinances
We believe a local Fundamental Baptist Church is a voluntary association of baptized believers, equal in rank and privilege subject to the Word of God, and independent of any external ecclesiastical control whatsoever. We believe God's Word commands every believer to be baptized, and that the only scriptural mode is by immersion. We believe the Ordinance of the Lord's Supper should be observed as Christ said, "In remembrance of His broken body and shed blood" for us, and that the supper has no sacramental virtue.
Acts 2:38, Romans 6:3, I Cor. 12:13, I Cor. 11:23-24
Evangelization
We believe it is the solemn obligation of every believer to be a personal soul-winner and to do his utmost to carry out the Savior's command to give the Gospel to the whole world.
Matt. 28:18-19