our beliefs 

The beliefs of this church are and shall be based upon the teaching of the Old and New Testaments. The embodiment of our beliefs is recorded in the Baptist Faith and Message, as adopted by the Southern Baptist Convention, June 14, 2000. The following is a brief statement of our core beliefs. 

Bible

We believe that the Bible, comprised of the Old and New Testaments, is the divinely inspired Word of God, complete, inerrant, and infallible, and that it is the supreme and final authority in matters of faith and practice. 

God

We believe in One God, externally existing in Three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 

Jesus Christ

We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, and is truly God and truly man. 

Man

We believe that man was created in the image of God and that man sinned, thereby incurring not only physical death, but also spiritual death, which is separation from God; that all human beings are born with a sinful nature and, in the case of those who reach the age of moral responsibility, become sinners in thought, word, and deed. 

Salvation

• We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood.
• We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, His ascension into Heaven, and in His presence there as High Priest and Advocate, and in His personal visible return to the earth according to His promise.

Sin

We believe in the universality of sin, and in salvation by grace, and that sonship with God is attained only by regeneration through the Holy Spirit and faith in Jesus Christ. 

the holy spirit 

We believe in the personality and deity of the Holy Spirit, who came down upon the earth on the day of Pentecost to dwell within believers to "reprove the world of sin and righteousness and of judgement," and to be administrator in the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

heaven 

We believe in a Heaven of eternal bliss for the saved and in Hell of conscious and eternal punishment for the unsaved.

the church

We believe that each church is independent and autonomous and must be free from interference by any ecclesiastical or political authority; that, therefore, church and State must be kept separate as having different functions, each fulfilling its responsibilities free from the control of the other.