Doctrinal Statement

The Holy Scriptures
We believe the Holy Scriptures to be the inspired Word of God, authoritative, inerrant, and God breathed. The Bible, in its 66 canonical books in their original languages, is a divine revelation. It is the inspired, infallible Word of God (PSA 119:89; PRO 30:5-6; 2TI 3:16-17; 2PE 1:20-21; JOH 16:12-13).
The Godhead
We believe in one triune God existing in three Persons--Father, Son and Holy Spirit-eternal in being, and identical in nature. Each person of the Trinity is equal in essence, authority, and glory, and each possesses all of the same attributes and perfection (DEU 6:4; 2CO 13:14).
The Total Depravity of Man
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God. However, through Adam’s original sin, the entire human race fell. At birth, every person receives a sin nature and receives the imputation of Adam’s original sin. Therefore, each person is born alienated from God. Man is totally unable to redeem himself or restore his lost condition (GEN 1:26-27; ROM 3:22-23; ROM 5:12; EPH 2:12).
The Person and Work of Christ
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man while maintaining His essential deity (JOH 1:1-2; JOH 1:14). He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary (LUK 1:35) to reveal God, redeem sinful man, and resolve the angelic conflict by the total defeat of Satan. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ fully accomplished our redemption through His spiritual death on the Cross as a substitutionary sacrifice. The Father accepted totally the pouring out of His soul unto death (ISA 53:9-12) as the propitiation for the sins of the entire world. The Father’s acceptance of His death is dramatized, and our redemption is made sure to us, by His literal physical resurrection from the dead, which also provided for the justification of believers (ROM 3:24-26; ROM 4:24-25; 1CO 15:1-4; 2CO 5:21; HEB 9:22; HEB 13:20-21; 1PE 1:3-5; 1PE 1:18-20; 1PE 2:24; 1PE 3:18 ). We further believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is now in heaven, having been supremely exalted by God the Father. He sits at the right hand of God the Father, where, as the High Priest for His people, He fulfills the ministry of Representative, Intercessor, and Advocate (ROM 8:34; EPH 1:19-23; HEB 7:25-27; HEB 9:24; 1JO 2:1-2).
The Personality and Work of the Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Trinity, is a Person and not merely a force. He convicts the world of the sin of unbelief, restrains evil from its ultimate manifestation, glorifies Christ, and guides believers into all truth (JOH 16:7-14). We believe that, at the point of personal faith in Christ, the Spirit baptizes each individual into interminable union with Christ and enters them into the Body of Christ. He permanently indwells, seals, and regenerates each believer. It is the privilege of every believer to be filled with the Holy Spirit, and believers are also commanded not to quench or grieve the Holy Spirit (ROM 8:9; 1CO 12:12-14; GAL 3:26-29; GAL 5:16; EPH 1:13-14; EPH 4:30; EPH 5:18; TIT 3:5-6).
Salvation
We believe that salvation in every dispensation is the gift of God brought to man by grace and received by personal, non-meritorious faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, whose efficacious death on the Cross provided man's reconciliation to God (JOH 1:12; JOH 3:15-16; JOH 5:24; JOH 6:40; JOH 6:47; JOH 20:31; ACT 16:31; ROM 3:24-25; ROM 5:11; ROM 5:16; 2CO 5:18-21; EPH 1:7; EPH 2:8-10).
The Eternal Security of Believers
We believe that all believers are kept secure forever, and cannot lose their salvation, eternal life, or imputation of perfect righteousness. All believers have the right to personal assurance of their eternal security (JOH 10:27-30;ROM 8:1; ROM 8:38-39; 1CO 1:4-8; 1TH 5:23-24; HEB 10:14).
The Church
We believe that the Church, which is now the Body and shall be the Bride of Christ, is a spiritual organism made up of all born-again persons of this age irrespective of their affiliation with Christian denominations or organizations (1CO 12:12-14; EPH 1:22-23; EPH 5:25-27).
The Personality of Satan
We believe in what the Bible acknowledges, namely the personal identity of Satan who is the openly declared enemy of God, the Word of God, the church, and Israel (JOB 1:6, 7; MAT 4:2-11; ISA 14:12-17). Satan is also the ruler of this present world (JOH 12:31; JOH 14:30; JOH 16:11; 2CO 4:4; EPH 2:2).
Dispensations
A dispensation is an administration established by God by revelation to provide for the manner of living for believers. While technically not the time periods themselves, we can see dispensations in terms of periods of human history explained in terms of divine revelation. History is defined as a series of administrations or eras. Each dispensation reflects the unfolding of God’s plan for mankind and constitutes divine viewpoint of history. Understanding dispensations is the vehicle by which believers living at a specific time can orient to God’s will, plan, and purpose for their post-salvation lives. Salvation is appropriated in only one way throughout human history - by grace through faith alone in Jesus Christ (GEN 15:6; ACT 16:31; ROM 3:22; ROM 3:30; EPH 2:8-9). Documentation for Dispensationalism (JOH 1:16-17; ACT 1:6-7; ROM 16:25-26; EPH 1:7-11; EPH 3:1-11; COL 1:25-29).
The Blessed Hope
We believe that the next great event in the fulfillment of prophecy will be the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in the air to receive to Himself the dead in Christ and believers who are alive at His coming, otherwise known as the Rapture and Translation of the Church (1CO 15:51-57; 1TH 4:13-18; TIT 2:11-14).
The Tribulation
We believe that the Rapture of the Church will be followed by the fulfillment of Israel's seventieth week, the latter half of which is the time of Jacob's trouble, the great Tribulation (DAN 9:27; JER 30:7; MAT 24:15-21; Rev 6-19).
The Second Coming of Christ
We believe that the great Tribulation will be climaxed by the (pre-millennial) return of the Lord Jesus Christ to earth to set up His kingdom (ZEC 14:4-11; MAT 24:29-31; 2TH 1:7-10; REV 20:6).
The Eternal State
We believe that the soul and human spirit of those who have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation immediately pass into His presence at the moment of physical death, and there remain in the conscious bliss until the resurrection of the body at His coming, when soul, human spirit, and body reunited shall be associated with Him forever in the glory; but the souls of unbelievers remain after death in conscious misery until the final judgment of the Great White Throne at the close of the Millennium, when soul and body reunited shall be cast into the Lake of Fire, not to be annihilated, but to be punished with everlasting destruction, being banished from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power (LUK 16:19-26; LUK 23:43; 2CO 5:8; PHI 1:23; 2TH 1:7-9; JUD 1:6-7; REV 20:11-15)
The Responsibility of the Believer
Once born again, the believer is to desire the sincere milk of the Word. Continually nourished by it, he is to grow spiritually in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is God’s desire that first every man be saved, and secondly that every believer in Christ come to intimately know Him through the inculcation of the Word of God ( 1TI 2:3-4). The effectual work of God’s Word brings the believer into adjustment with God’s purpose, plan and will. The execution of God’s Word brings glory to the Lord (ROM 12:1-2; 1TI 4:6; 1PE 2:2; 2PE 3:18).
Church Ordinances
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ instituted the Lord's Supper to be observed until His return (1CO 11:23-26).
Sovereignty
We believe that God, existing as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is sovereign and exercises supreme and absolute rule over all creation as a part of and consistent with the essence and attributes of Deity (1CH 29:11-12; DAN 4:35; PSA 24:1; EPH 1:11; 1TI 6:15). However, God in His sovereignty will not violate the free will of man. The free will of man and the sovereignty of God co-exist by divine decree (1TI 2:4-6; JOH 3:16; JOH 3:36).
Spirituality
We believe that spirituality is an absolute condition in the life of a believer in this dispensation wherein he is filled or controlled by the Holy Spirit, walking in love and fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that spirituality is distinct from maturity. The believer is mandated not to quench or grieve the Spirit by personal sin and by rejection of His grace and power. Instead, the believer is to walk by means of the Spirit and be filled with the Spirit (GAL 5:16; EPH 4:30; EPH 5:18; 1TH 5:19). The believer’s intimacy with the Holy Spirit, also known as fellowship, is suspended once he commits personal sins. This intimacy is restored when he names and cites his sin(s) to God the Father (1JO 1:9).A believer becomes carnal through any act of mental, verbal, or overt sin, and that spirituality (fellowship with Christ) is restored solely by personal confession of that sin to God the Father. The Christian life can only be fulfilled by the power of the Spirit (ROM 8:4-6).
Spiritual Gifts
We believe that God the Holy Spirit, in grace and apart from human merit, sovereignly bestows one spiritual gift to each believer in this dispensation. Some of the permanent spiritual gifts that exist today are pastor-teacher, evangelist, administrator, giving, service, helps, exhortation, and mercy. We further believe that the temporary spiritual gifts ceased with the completion of the canon of Scripture, and these were apostleship, prophecy, speaking in tongues, interpreting tongues, healing, and working of miracles (1Co 12, 13; EPH 4:7-12; ROM 12:4-8). Though spiritual gifts of miracles and healing have ceased, God may, and does, heal and miraculously intervene by His direct action (ISA 46:10; MAT 28:18; JAM 5:16).