What We Believe

• In the Eternal Being and Existence of one God, the true and living creator of the heavens and the earth, existing eternally in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit; 

• In the full deity and humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God, whose substitutionary sacrifice is the sole ground of redemption from guilt, penalty and power of sin; 

• In the divine inspiration of Holy Scripture and its consequent entire trustworthiness and supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct; 

• In the universal sinfulness and guilt of human nature since the fall, making man subject to God’s wrath and condemnation; 

• In the justification of the sinner by the grace of God through faith alone in Christ crucified and risen from the dead; 

• That the Holy Spirit came forth from the Father and the Son, to convict the world of sin, righteousness and judgment; and to regenerate, sanctify, comfort, indwell and seal those who believe in Jesus Christ.  The Holy Spirit teaches, leads and guides believers into all truth and empowers them to use God’s spiritual gifts, as given to each believer, for the building up of Christ’s church.  We believe that each Spiritual gift described in the New Testament is valid, but must be exercised in strict accordance with orderly instructions found in 1 Corinthians chapters 13 and 14; 

• The term “baptism of the Holy Spirit” to mean both the infilling of the believer with the Holy Spirit and the immersion of the Christian believer into the body of Christ (see Acts 2:4 and 1 Corinthians 12:12-20);  

• The terms “in-filling of the Holy Spirit” and “Spirit-filled believer” to refer to the Christian believer yielding his/her life to the power and control of the Holy Spirit on a daily basis (see Ephesians 5:15-21) thereby walking daily in the Spirit as Christians are enjoined to do in Galatians 5:16-18; 

• That the evidence of a deep experience with the Holy Spirit is found, not in the demonstration of any particular gift of the Holy Spirit, but by the fruit of the Spirit as catalogued in Galatians 5:22-24; 

• In the expectation of the personal, visible return of the Lord Jesus Christ; 

• In the practice of believer’s baptism by immersion in water in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit; 

• In the Lord’s Supper as commemorative of Christ’s death; 

• In the local Church, a body of baptized believers voluntarily banded together, and assembling in one place on the Lord’s day for the observance of Christian ordinances and the ministry of the Word; 

• In the spreading of the gospel of Christ in all lands.