What We Believe

We believe and accept the entire Bible as the infallible Word of God, inspired by the Holy Ghost;

the only and perfect order of our faith and manner of living; to which nothing can be added or

taken away, which is the power of God unto salvation to believers (2 Peter 1 :21; 2 Timothy 3 :16,17;

Romans 1: 16).

 

We believe there is only one living and true God, eternal, with unlimited power, Creator of all

things; and in the one God are three distinct persons: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

(Eph 4:6; Matthew 28:19; 1 John 5:7).

 

We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the second person in the Godhead of the trinity or triune Godhead. The New Testament calls him the Son of God, Son of man, Lamb of God, and others (Matthew 16:16; 26:33; 27:43g; John 1:29).

 

We believe that Jesus Christ the Son of God, became to man, the “Suffering Servant”, This suffering Servant came seeking to redeem man from sin and to reconcile him back to God, his Father (Rom. 5:10).

 

We believe that Jesus Christ was born of a Virgin called Mary according to the scripture (Matt. I:18), thus giving rise to our fundamental belief in the Virgin birth and to all of the miraculous events surrounding this Phenomenon (Matt, 1:18, 25). The Old Testament also bears witness to this (Isa 7:14). The Virgin Birth in final is summed up Luke l:37, in “with God nothing shall be impossible.”

 

We believe that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is standing now as mediator between man and God (I Tim. 2:5).

 

We believe that regeneration or the new birth is received only through faith in Jesus; Christ who was delivered up for our trespasses and was raised for our justification.  They who are in Christ Jesus (cleansed through His blood), a renewed creatures, and have Him for Wisdom, and Righteousness, and Sanctification, and Redemption (Roman; 3:24, 25; 2 Cor 5:17; 1 Cor. 1:30).

 

We believe in water baptism by single immersion, in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost according to Christ’s commission (Matthew 28:18, 19).

 

We believe that the Baptism of the Holy Ghost is an experience subsequent and to conversion sanctification and that tongue speaking is the consequence of the baptism of the Holy Ghost with manifestations of supernatural-power and the gifts of the fruit of the spirit (Gal 5:22-23; Acts 10:46, 19:16; Luke 24:29).  As a result, they were filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance (Acts 2:4; 4:31; 8:14-17; 10:44-47; 11:15; 19:2-6; Eph 1:13).

 

We believe that we are not baptized with the Holy Ghost in order to be saved, but that we are baptized with the Holy Ghost because we are saved (Acts 19:1 -6; John 3:5).

 

We believe in the Lord’s Supper; as being a symbolic representation of the Lord’s death that is a sacrifice done for our benefit.

 

We believe that Jesus Christ, Himself, bore all our infirmities, and therefore we obey the following commandment: “Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him” (James 5 :14-16).

We believe that the Lord, Himself (before the millennium), “Shall descend from heaven with a shout! With the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord” (l Thessalonians 4:1 6, 17; Rev.20:6).

 

We believe there shall be a bodily resurrection of all dead, just and unjust…  And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal. (Matthew 25:46; Acts 24:15).