About Us

The Holy Scriptures.
We believe that the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are the verbally and plenarilv inspired Word of God. The Scriptures are inerrant, infallible and God-breathed and, therefore, are the final authority for faith and life. The sixty-six books of the Old and New Testament are the complete and divine revelation of God to Man. (2 Tim. 3:16-17; 2 Pet. 1:20-21)

Dispensationalism
We believe that the Scriptures interpreted in their plain, literal, historical, contextual, and grammatical sense reveal divinely determined dispensations or rules of life which define man’s responsibilities in successive ages. These dispensations are not ways of salvation, but rather are divinely ordered stewardships by which God directs man according to His purpose. Three of these dispensations—the law, the church, and the kingdom—are the subjects of detailed revelation in Scripture. (Gen. 1:28; I Cor. 9:17; 2 Cor. 3:9-18; Gal. 3:13-25; Eph. 1:10; 3:2-10; Col. 1 :24-25, 27; Rev. 20:2-6)

The Godhead.
We believe in one Triune God, eternally existing in three persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – each co-eternal in being, co-identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections, but with different functions to fulfill one Divine purpose (Deut. 6:4; Matt. 28:l9; 2 Cor. 13:14; John 14:10,26).

The Person and Work of Christ.

1. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man, without ceasing to be God, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, in order that He might reveal God, redeem sinful men, and ultimately reign as Messiah (Is. 7:14; 9:6; Luke 1:35; John 1:I -2, 14; 2 Cor. 5:19- 21 ; Gal. 4:4-5; Phil. 2:5-8).
2. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through his death on the cross as a representative, vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice; and, that our justification is made sure by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead (Acts 2.18-36; Rom. 3:24-25; 1 Peter 2:24; Eph. 1:7; 1 Peter 1 :3-5).
3. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to Heaven, and is now exalted at the right hand of God, where, as our High Priest, He fulfills the ministry of Representative, Intercessor, and Advocate (Acts 1 :9-10; Heb. 9:24; 7:25; Rom. 8.34; 1 John 2:1-2).

The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit.

1. We believe that the Holy Spirit is the Divine Person of the Holy Trinity who convicts the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment; and, that He is the Supernatural Agent in regeneration, baptizing believers into the body of Chrisf, indwelling them unto the day of redemption of the body (John 16:8-11; Rom. 8:9; 1 Cor. 12:12-14; 2 Cor. 3:6; Eph. 1:13-14).
2. We believe that He is the Divine Teacher who assists believers to understand and appropriate the Scriptures and that it is the privilege and duty of all the saved to be filled with the Spirit (Eph. 1:17-18; 5:18; 1 John 2:20, 27).
3. We believe that God gives spiritual gits to all believers for the building up of the body of Christ. However, the miraculous sign-gifts of the Spirit, such as tongues and healings, were limited to the early church for its foundational period to fulfill God’s Divine purpose (Rom. 12:3-6; 1 Cor. 12:4-11, 28; Eph. 4:7-12).
4. Ultimate deliverance of the body from sickness or death awaits the consummation of our salvation in the resurrection, although God frequently chooses to answer the prayers of believers for physical healing. (1 Cor. 1:22; 13:8; 14:21-22).

The Total Depravity of Man.
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam’s sin the human race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God; and, that man is totally depraved, and, of himself, utterly unable to remedy his lost condition without the intervention of the Grace of God (Gen. 1:26-27; Rom. 3:22-23; 5:12; 6:23; Eph. 2:1-3; 4:17-19).

Salvation y Sanctification.

1. We believe that the Bible teaches that there is only one way of salvation and that salvation is the gift of God brought to man by grace and received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, whose precious blood was shed on Calvary for the sins of all mankind. We also believe that whosoever will may receive God’s gift of Eternal life in Jesus Christ and is eternal saved (John 1 :12; Eph. 1:7; 2:8-10; 1 Pet. I: 1 8-1 9; John 14:6).
2. We believe that when an unregenerate person exercises that faith in Christ he passes immediately out of spiritual death into spiritual life, and from the old creation into the new; being justified from all things, having his place and portion as linked to Christ and one with Him forever. Though the saved one may have occasion to grow in the realization of his blessings and to know a fuller measure of divine power through the yielding of his life more fully to God, he is, as soon as he is saved, in possession of every spiritual blessing and absolutely complete in Christ, and is therefore in no way required by God to seek a so-called “second blessing,” or a “second work of grace” (John 5:24; 17:23; Acts 13:39; Rom. 5:1; 1 Cor. 3:2l-23; Eph. 1:3; Col. 2:10, 1 John 4:17; 5:1l—12).
3. We believe that sanctification, which is a setting-apart unto God, is threefold: It is already complete for every saved person because his position toward God is the same as Christ’s position. We believe, however, that he retains his sin nature, which cannot be eradicated in this life. Therefore, while the standing of the Christian in Christ is perfect, his present state is no more perfect than his experience in daily life. There is, therefore, a progressive sanctification wherein the Christian is to grow in grace, and to be changed by the power of the Spirit. We believe also that the child of God will yet be fully sanctified in his state as he is now sanctified in his standing in Christ when he shall see his Lord and shall be like Him (John 17:17; 2 Cor. 3:18; 7:1; Eph. 4:24; 5:25—27; 1 Thess. 5:23; Heb. 10:10, 14; 12:10).
4. We believe that all the saved should live in such a manner as not to bring reproach upon their Savior and Lord; and, that separation from all religious apostasy, sinful pleasures, practices, and associations is commanded of God (Rom. 12:1-2; 14:13; 2 Cor. 6:14-7:1; 2 Tim. 3:1-5; 1 John 2.15-17; 2 John 9-11).

Eternal Security and Assurance

1. We believe that, because of the eternal purpose of God toward the objects of His love, because of His freedom to exercise grace toward the meritless on the ground of the propitiatory blood of Christ, because of the very nature of the divine gift of eternal life, all true believers everywhere, once saved shall be kept saved forever (John 5:24; 10:28; 13: 1; 14: 16-17; 17:11; Rom. 8:29; 1 Cor. 6:19; Heb. 7:25; IJohn 2:1—2; 5:13).
2. We believe, however, that God is a holy and righteous Father and that, since He cannot overlook the sin of His children, He will, when they persistently sin, chasten them and correct them in infinite love; but will in the end present every one of them faultless before the presence of His glory and conformed to the image of His Son. (Heb. 12:5-11; Jude 24).
3. We believe it is the privilege, not only of some, but of all who are born again by the Spirit through faith in Christ as revealed in the Scriptures, to be assured of their salvation from the very day they take Him to be their Savior and that this assurance is not founded upon any purported discovery of their own worthiness or fitness, but wholly upon the testimony of God in His written Word, stimulating within His children love, gratitude, and obedience (Luke 10:20; 22:32; 2 Cor. 5:1, 6—8; 2 Tim. 1:12; Heb. 10:22; 1 John 5:13).

Divided Allegiances.
We believe that membership in secret societies and lodges which require oaths of allegiance and are by nature quasi-religious divides a Christian’s loyalty, that their secretive nature contravenes the Christian’s open witness, that generally they offer a false hope of salvation through works, and that their oaths are repugnant to the Christian conscience. A Christian may be a member of a labor, civic or other organization as long as that membership does not conflict with absolute loyalty to Christ. (Exod. 20:3, 7; Matt. 5:34-36; John 18:20; Acts 4:12; Rom. 12:17; 2 Cor. 6:14; Eph. 2:8-9; James 5:12)

The Second Advent of Christ.
We believe in that blessed hope, the personal, imminent and premillennial return of Christ, Who will rapture His church prior to the seven-year tribulation period. At the end of the Tribulation, Christ will personally and visibly return with His saints, to establish His literal and earthly Messianic Kingdom which was promised to the nation of Israel. (Ps. 89:3-4; Dan. 2:31-45; Zech. 14:4-11; 1 Thess. 1:10, 4:13-18; Titus 2:13; Rev. 3:10; 19:11-16; 20:1-6).

The Eternal State.

1. We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life, and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment (Matt. 25:46; John 5:28, 29; 11:25-26; Rev. 20:5-6, I 2-13).
2. We believe that the souls of the redeemed are, at death, absent from the body and present with the Lord, where in conscious bliss they await the First Resurrection, when spirit, soul, and body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord (Luke 23.43; 2 Cor. 5:8; Phil. 1 :23; 3:21; I Thess. 4:16-17; Rev. 20:4-6).
3. We believe that the souls of unbelicvers remain, after death, in conscious punishment and torment until the Second Resurrection, when with spirit, soul and body reunited they shall appear at the Great White Throne fudgment, and shall be cast into the Lake of Fire, not to be annihilated, but to suffer everlasting, conscious punishment and torment (Matt. 25:41-46; Mark 9:43-48; Luke 16:19- 26; 2 Thess. 1:7-9; Jude 6-7; Rev. 20:I 1-15).

Angeles, Demons, and Satan.
We believe that God created an innumerable company of sinless, spiritual beings, known as angels; that one, “Lucifer, son of the morning”—the highest in rank—sinned through pride, thereby becoming Satan; that a great company of the angels followed him in his moral fall, some of whom became demons and are active as his agents and associates in the prosecution of his unholy purposes, while others who fell are “reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day” (Isa. 14:12—1 7; Ezek. 28:11—19; 1 Tim. 3:6; 2 Pet. 2:4; Jude 6).

• We believe that Satan is the originator of sin, and that, under the permission of God, he, through subtlety, led our first parents, Adam and Eve, into transgression, thereby accomplishing their moral fall and subjecting them and their posterity to his own power; that he is the enemy of God and the people of God, opposing and exalting himself above alI that is called God or that is worshiped; and in fits warfare appears as an angel of light, even counterfeiting the works of God by fostering religious movements and systems of doctrine, which systems in every case are characterized by a denial of the efficacy of the blood of Christ, deity of Christ and of salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone (Gen.3:1—19; Rom. 5:12-14; 2 Cor. 4:3—4; 1 1:13—15; Eph. 6:10-12; 2 Thess. 2:4;1Tim. 4:1—3).
• We believe that Satan was judged at the Cross, though not then executed, and that he, a usurper, now rules as the “god of this world”; that, at the second coming of Christ, Satan will be bound and cast into the abyss for a thousand years, and afier the thousand years he will be loosed for a little season and then “cast into the lake of fire and brimstone,” where he “shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever” (Col. 2:15; Rev. 20:1-3, 10).
• We believe that a great company of angels kept their holy estate and are before the throne of God, from whence they are sent forth as ministering spirits to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation (Luke 15:10; Eph. 1:2 I ; Heb. 1 :14; Rev. 7:12)..
• We believe that man was made lower than the angels; and that, in His incarnation, Christ took for a little time this lower place that He might lift the believer to His own sphere above the angels (Heb. 2:6—10).

Civil Government.
We believe that God has ordained and created all authority consisting of three basic institutions: 1) the home, 2) the church, and 3) the state. Every person is subject to these authorities, but all (including the authorities themselves) are answerable to God and governed by His Word. God has given each institution specific Biblical responsibilities and balanced those responsibilities with the understanding that no institution has the right to infringe upon the other. The home, the church, and the state are equal and sovereign in their respective Bibtically assigned spheres of responsibility under God. We believe that we must obey the state unless it requires us to act contrary to ‘ our faith at which time we must obey God rather than the state. (Matt. 22:15-22; Acts 5:29; Rom. 13:1-7; Eph. 5:22-24; Titus 3:1-2; Heb. 13:17; 1 Pet. 2:13-14).

Creation.
We believe that God created the universe in six literal, 24-hour periods. We reject evolution, the Day-Age Theory, and Theistic Evolution as unscriptural theories of origin. (Gen. 1-2; Ex. 20:11). We believe that Adam and Eve are actual historical people created by God in His image. We also believe He is not only the Creator but also the Sustainer of the Universe (Gen. 1:26-28; 2:7, 18-24).

Human Sexuality.

1. We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between one man and one woman. We believe that any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, bestiality, incest, fornication, adultery, and pornography are sinful perversions of God’s gift of sex. We believe that God disapproves of and forbids any attempt to alter one’s gender by surgery or appearance. (Gen. 2:24; Gen. 19:5, 13; Gen. 26:8-9; Lev. 1 8:1-30; Rom. 1: 26- 29; 1 Cor. 5:1; 6:9; 1 Thess. 4:1-8; Heb. 13.4).
2. We believe that the only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one woman (Gen. 2:24; Rom. 7:2; 1 Cor. 7:10; Eph. 5:22-23).

Missions.
We believe that God has given all believers the great commission to proclaim the Gospel and make disciples to all nations so that there might be a great multitude from every nation, tribe, ethnic group, and language group who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. As ambassadors of Christ we must use all available means to go to the foreign nations and not wait for them to come to us (Matt. 28:19-20; Mark 1 6:15; Luke 24:46-48; John 20:21; Acts 1:8; 2 Cor. 5:20).

Lawsuits between Believers.
We believe that Christians are prohibited from bringing civil lawsuits against other Christians or the church to resolve personal disputes. We believe the church possesses all the resources necessary to resolve personal disputes between members. We do believe, however, that a Christian may seek compensation for injuries from another Christian’s insurance company as long as the claim is pursued without malice or slander. (1 Cor. 6:1-8; Eph. 4:31-32).

This Statement of Faith does not exhaust the extent of our faith. The Bible itself is the sole and final source of all that we believe. We do believe, however, that the foregoing Statement of Faith accurately represents the teaching of the Bible, and, therefore, is binding upon all Directors and employees of the Ministry.