I. The Doctrine Of The Scriptures
We believe in the Bible as the verbally (every word) and plenary (completely) inspired Word of God as contained in the original manuscripts; that all portions of Scripture are equally inspired and contain no contradictions; that the Scriptures are to be the only rule of faith and practice for the believer in Jesus Christ; and that the Canon, the sixty-six books of the Bible, is complete. Nothing shall be added to it nor taken away from it. We believe that God preserved His Word in the Traditional Hebrew Masoretic Text and in the Greek Textus Receptus. Therefore we hold the King James Version which is based on these texts as the best English translation of the Bible. (II Timothy 3:16, 17; Hebrews 1:1; II Peter 1:20,21;Revelation 22:18, 19)
II. The Doctrine Of God
We believe there is only one true and living God, and that He is that infinite and perfect Spirit in whom all things have their source, support, and end. He is manifested in three personalities, namely the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and all three are one God, having precisely the same nature, each with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence or being. (Gen. 1:26; I John 1:1; John 10:30; Acts 5:3,4; I Tim. 1:17)
III. The Doctrine Of Jesus Christ
We believe in the essential deity and virgin birth of our Lord Jesus Christ; that He was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, not having a human father, and is true God and true man; that He is man’s only hope of salvation from sin, being the only mediator between God and man; that He died, was buried, and rose again the third day for our sins according to the Scriptures; and we believe in “that blessed hope” which is the personal, visible, pre-tribulational, premillennial and imminent return of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. (I John 3:2-3; I Thess 4:14-17; I Cor 15:51-53; Titus 2:13)
IV. The Doctrine Of The Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit is a divine Person, equal with the Father and the Son and of the same substance. We believe that the Holy Spirit is true God and that He convicts of sin, righteousness, and judgment; bears witness to the truth; is the agent of the new birth; and that He seals, endues, guides, teaches, witnesses to, sanctifies, and helps the believer; that He takes up His abode within the individual at the time of regeneration, and thus indwells, every born-again believer; that He infills the believer for service upon each experience of surrender and dedication. (John 14:16-18; 16:7-13; Acts 1:8; Eph. 5:18)
V. The Doctrine Of Man
We believe that God created man in His own image and that man sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death, which is conscious and eternal separation from God. We believe that all men are born with a sinful nature, evidenced by sinful acts; that man is totally depraved; and that if he is not born again, he is eternally lost. (Genesis 1:26; Psalm 51:5; Jeremiah 17:9; Romans 5:12)
VI. The Doctrine Of Salvation
We believe that a person is saved when he repents of his sin and exercises faith by accepting Jesus Christ as his Saviour. The believer is kept by the power of God and is eternally secure in Christ. The basis of our salvation is the precious blood of Christ according to I Peter 1:18,19 which states that we are redeemed “…with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.” We believe that the scope of salvation includes forgiveness of all our sins, past, present, and future; a perfect standing before God as in Jesus Christ; and the changing of our earthly body to be conformed like unto the body of our Lord at His return for His own. We believe that a person’s hope for reconciliation must precede death and an attitude of enmity toward God will be eternally fixed at death. We further believe that there is an appointed day for the judgment of the wicked when they will be cast into the Lake of Fire, there to remain in everlasting conscious punishment and torment. (John 1:12; John 10:28; Romans 6:23; Revelation 20:12-15)
VII. The Doctrine Of The Church
We believe a New Testament church is a voluntary and independent autonomous assembly of immersed believers who are a body with Christ as its head, joining together for worship, service, fellowship, discipline, prayer, teaching, testimony, the observance of the ordinances, which are baptism by immersion and the Lord’s Supper, and that it is actively engaged in carrying out the Great Commission. Furthermore we believe it is a pure democracy, which organically can join nothing, and that it has the power and right within itself to confess its own faith in accordance with the New Testament, that its only officers are that of pastor and deacon; and that each congregation recognizes its own democratic self-containing government as its highest authority for carrying out the will of the Lord Jesus Christ. We disavow any teaching on a “universal church.” (I Timothy 3:15; I Cor. 12:12-27; Rev. 2, 3; Col 1:18, 24, 3:15, 16; Acts 20:17; I Tim 3:1-15; Titus 1:5-11; I Cor. 3:10-17; I Cor. 5:1-5, 11:2)
We believe the local church is God’s only program for this dispensation, and that every Christian is bound by Scripture to give his unhindered cooperation to the program of his local church; that it is the responsibility of all believers to remember the work of the local church and its extension ministries in prayer, to support it with their tithes and offerings as the Lord prospers them, to participate in all the regular services of the Church as the Lord enables, and to voluntarily submit to the watchcare and discipline of the local church. (I Cor 16:2; Heb 10:19-25, 13:17; I Tim 3:15)
VIII. The Doctrine Of Satan
We believe that Satan was originally created a holy perfect being, but through pride and wicked ambition rebelled against God, thus becoming utterly depraved in character, the great adversary of God and His people, leader of all other evil angels, the deceiver and god of this present world; that his powers are vast, but strictly limited by the permissive will of God who overrules all his wicked devices for good; that he was defeated and judged at the cross, and therefore, his final doom is certain; that we are able to resist and overcome him only in the armour of God, by the blood of the Lamb, and through the power of the Holy Spirit. (Gen3:1-7; II Cor 4:3-4, 11:3; Eph 2:1-4, 6:11, 12; Isa 14:12-17; Ezek 28:11-19; Rev 20:1-10)
IX. The Doctrine Of Last Things
We believe the Scriptures teach that at death the spirit and soul of the believer pass instantly into the presence of Christ and remain in conscious joy until the resurrection of the body when Christ comes for His own; the blessed hope of the believer is the imminent, personal, pre-tribulational, pre-millennial appearance of Christ at the rapture; His righteous judgments will then be poured out on an unbelieving world during the Tribulation (the seventieth week of Daniel), the last half of which is the Great Tribulation, the climax of this fearful era will be the physical return of Jesus Christ to the earth in great glory to introduce the Davidic kingdom; Israel will be saved and restored as a nation; Satan will be bound and the curse will be lifted from the physical creation; following the Millennium, the Great White Throne judgment will occur, at which time the bodies and souls of the wicked shall be reunited and cast into the Lake of Fire. (II Cor 5:8; I Cor 15:51-57; Titus 2:13; I Thess 1:10, 4:14-17, 5:9; Matt 24:21; Rev 19:11-16; Rom 11:26, 27; Rev. 20:2, 3, 11-15)
X. The Doctrine Of Separation
Separation of Church and State – We believe that the church and the State are two different institutions ordained by God for different purposes and as such they should remain separate during this present world. We believe civil government is of divine appointment, for the interests and good order of human society, that magistrates are to be prayed for, conscientiously honoured, and obeyed; except only in the things opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ who is the only Lord of the conscience. (Matt 22:15-21; Acts 4:19-20, 5:29, 23:5; Rom 13:1; Phil 2:10,11; I Pet. 2:13)
Separation both Ethical and Ecclesiastical – We believe that God commands Christians to be a separated people unto Himself. The Church will be separated from all forms of apostasy and religious inclusivism. We stand in opposition to Modernism, Neo-Orthodoxy, New Evangelicalism, and Interdenominationalism. We reject the Ecumenical Movement which calls for the joining of all churches into one body regardless of doctrine or practice and the Charismatic Movement with its emphasis on tongues speaking, signs and wonders, and healing. This church treasures interdependence and will enjoy fellowship only with churches of like faith and practice, but will have no part in any council of churches that is ecumenical in nature and thrust. We believe that Christians are to be personally separated from all worldly practices that hinder spiritual growth and stability. We believe that God’s people should not love the world or the things that are in the world. We believe that a Christian should live a holy life and maintain a testimony consistent with the Bible. (II Cor 6:14-17; Rom 16:17; II John 10,11)