Statement of Faith

 

The equality and distinct personality of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost in the unity of the Godhead.

The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the Word of God; they were given by divine inspiration; and this system of divine revelation comprehends everything necessary for us to know concerning God and the direction of our obedience to Him. By this Divine Book, God has given the revelation of His gracious design of saving sinners and pointing out the way through the mediation of the Lord Jesus. By the instrumentality of this Sacred Word, when used by the Holy Spirit, stubborn and obstinate sinners are brought into the obedience of the faith and the unrepentant are left without excuse; and by this Word of the Lord, all men shall be judged at the last day.

The fall of mankind in Adam, their guilt and condemnation, together with their entire universal depravity, by which they were utterly alienated from God and are unable in and of themselves to turn to Him.

God, from the beginning or in eternity, chose His people in Christ unto salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ; all of which are set forth and affected through the Gospel.

The special and complete redemption of al the family of God, through the blood of Christ by virtue of His vicarious suffering and sacrificial death.

Regeneration and sanctification by direct agency of the Holy Spirit through the instrumentality of divine truth and evidenced by the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

Justification of the ungodly by grace, through the imputed righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is unto all and upon all them that believe.

The absolute necessity of a holy life in conformity to the life of Christ as the result of faith and the evidence of regeneration.

The resurrection of the dead and the judgment of all mankind; the wicked driven away in their wickedness into everlasting punishment, but the righteous received into life eternal.

The commission of our Lord Jesus Christ given to His disciples makes it imperative on their part to preach the Gospel in all the work, to every creature, until the Lord shall come again from heaven to raise His sleeping dead, to change His living and waiting saints and translate them to glory. Furthermore, the revealed will of Christ makes it the indispensable duty of the churches to support the labors of their ministry with their prayers, active cooperation and material contributions.

 

We believe in the sanctity of the first day of the week; that it should be observed by abstaining from secular employment and occupied in the public and private worship of God and in works of necessity and mercy.