Our Faith

We believe that there is only one true God (Is 45:22). We believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.  Three in one: the trinity (Gen 1:26, 2 Cor 3:14).  

God created the earth and mankind in 6 literal days and rested on the seventh day (Ex. 20:11). God created the whole world and all of us perfectly good (Gen 1:31).   In the Garden of Eden, God had perfect relationship with people and even walked in the garden with them (Gen 3:8).   

We believe that God gave humans freewill, the ability to choose (Gen 2:16-17, Deut 30:19).  In the Garden of Eden people were given the choice to listen to God (Gen 2:16) and they rebelled, rather choosing to listen to themselves and Satan (Gen 2:6, 2:7). 

We believe the consequences of sin began in the Garden of Eden and death, sin, and separation from God are all direct results of the sin that occurred that day (Gen 2:14-19, Rom 5:12). The bible states that we are all sinners (Rom 3:23). We all suffer pain, death and separation from God as a result (Is. 59:2, Rom 5:12).  

We believe, as a result of the fall, everyone's physical life will end, but the Bible tells us that our spirits are immortal (Dan 12:2).  When our spirits leave this mortal body they are destined to heaven or hell (Dan 12:2, Ecc 12:7, Matt 25:46).  

We believe hell is a real place as described in the Bible (Matt 8:12, Mark 9:47-48).  It is a place of eternal suffering and separation from God (Luke 16:26).  We believe hell was created for the evil of Satan and his demons but it is a place that all humans who choose to remain separated from God will also go (Matt 25:41).

We believe heaven is a real place as described in the Bible (Rev 22:1-5).  It is a place of eternal joy and relationship with God (Rev 21: 1-4). We believe heaven is only for those who have believed in God and Jesus Christ whom He sent to save us from our sins (John 17:3, John 3:36, John 14:6).

We believe in Satan, demons, and angels as described in the Bible. Angels are spirit beings that worship and do the work of God (Heb 1:6, Heb 1:14).

Demons are angels that have fallen and have refused to worship and do the work of God (Jude 6, Rev 12:4). They are led by Satan in their rebellion (Rev 12:9).

From the moment of initial sin in the Garden of Eden, God began shaping a rescue plan to restore a relationship with people (Gen 3:15, Gen 12:2-3).  The Old Testament is full of accounts of people that tried to follow God and failed on their own.  We believe that God sent His own son, Jesus to pay the price of our sin (death), so that we could have a restored relationship with God and a path to heaven (John 3:16).

We believe that salvation cannot be earned through works, that salvation is by faith alone and by God’s grace alone (Eph 2:8-9). We believe that faith is shown to be true faith by our works (James 2:18).

The Bible says that "If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." (Romans 10:9)

We believe that once a person is saved, they are sealed with the Holy Spirit and cannot lose their salvation (Eph 1:13-14). No one can snatch them from God’s hand (Jn 10:28-29) and nothing and no one can separate them from God’s love (Rom 8:38-39).

We believe that Jesus was fully God and fully man (Phil 2:5-8). We believe that He lived a perfect life (1 Pet 2:22, Heb 4:15) and performed many miracles (Jn 5:36) that proved that He was the promised savior (Messiah) (Matt 16:16) that would be able to save us from our sins (1 Jn 3:5).  We believe that He died for our sins and paid the price for our souls so that we could have a restored relationship with God and go to heaven (Col 2:13-14, Acts 13:38-39). We believe that He was resurrected from the dead 3 days after His death on the cross and that He has conquered sin and death (1 Cor 15) and is coming back again (John 14:3, Rev 1:7).

We believe that the Bible is true in its entirety (Ps 119:160) and was written by God through the hands of men that He selected (2 Pet 1:21). It contains all we need for life and godliness (2 Tim 3:15-17). We believe that the Bible is complete and that we are not to add or take away from His words (Rev 22:18-19).

We believe that baptism is commanded in the Bible (Matt 28:19-20) and it is one way of openly declaring that God has buried a person’s sins in Jesus’s death and has raised them to new life through faith in His resurrection (Rom 6:4). Baptism in the Bible is always shown as a declaration of faith after salvation (Acts 2:41, Acts 16:14-15, Acts 8:35-36).

We believe that prayer is our communication with God. We are to pray at all times and in every situation (Ph 4:6-7). We are to pray to God alone, since He alone is our rock and our salvation (Ps 62:1-6, Is 43:10-11). We do not need any human or priest to intercede on our behalf as the Bible states that Jesus is our mediator (1 Tim 2:5) and high priest (Heb 4:14-16) and the Holy Spirit intercedes for us before God (Rom 8:26-27).