About OUR CHURCH

We believe that God is the Great Three-In-One, known as the Trinity. He is three persons in one.

• God the Father – He is the 1st Person of the Trinity. He is  mentioned in John 3:16 as the One Who gave His only begotten Son, Jesus  Christ, to die on the cross for the sins of the world. It is through God  the Father’s love for us that we can have salvation.
• God the Son (Jesus Christ) – He is the 2nd Person of the Trinity and  the Incarnate Son of God, called Emmanuel in Matthew 1:23, possessing  all of the attributes of deity even as He performed His earthly journey.  Jesus is the promised seed of Genesis 3:15 and Isaiah 7:14. He is the  One Who fulfilled His Father’s desires to have a perfect, sinless,  spotless sacrifice for the sins of the world (II Corinthians 5:21).
• God the Holy Spirit – He is the 3rd Person of the Trinity. He is  known as the Comforter (John 14:16-17). The Holy Spirit indwells and  seals the believer upon salvation. John 1:1-5 gives us the proof of the  Trinity, and Revelation 19:11-13 shows us that Jesus Christ is “the  Word”.

 We believe the church is a local, separated body of believers who are  sent forth into the world to get people saved, baptized, and added to  the church. We further believe that Jesus Christ is the One Who started  the church for the purpose of propagating His Gospel to the entire world  and that He started the church during His earthly ministry, as found in  the Gospel accounts (Matt. 10:2; I Cor. 12:28; Matt. 16:18; Matt.  18:17).  From this point, the church grew in the beginning portion of  Acts and eventually created other churches across the world as the  Gospel spread. We believe all true, Bible believing churches can trace  their origin to the church Jesus Christ started in the New Testament. 

 We believe baptism is an outward action showing an inward change and is  the first of the two ordinances given to the church. It is the convert’s  public expression of his faith in Christ’s redemption work. We believe  baptism is for believers only, that it is to be done by immersion, and  that it brings one into fellowship with the church. We encourage  believers to follow the biblical model and to be baptized immediately  after salvation (Acts 2:41), signifying the “old man’s” death and  burial, and the “new man’s” resurrection in Christ (Romans 6:3-6).

 We believe the Lord’s Supper is to remember Christ’s sacrifice for our  sins. It is to be observed by members of the church, in communion with  the church, only after Scriptural baptism by immersion. I Corinthians 11  details the events of the Lord’s Supper. The Lord’s Supper is the  second of two ordinances given to the church.   

 We believe God has appointed a time, of which only He knows (Matthew  24:36, 42), when He will send Jesus to call His children (all of the  saved still living on earth) to Heaven. This event will mark the  beginning of the Great Tribulation period on earth, and the Judgment  Seat of Christ in Heaven.  

 We believe the Judgment Seat of Christ is the period in which the Bride  (the Church) and the Groom (Jesus Christ) will go into the chamber and  shut the door (Matthew 25:10). Here is where the marriage is  consummated. Here is where the Groom removes the Bride’s veil, and her  secrets are known. II Corinthians 5:9-10 tells us that we will be judged  according to our works, and rewarded. In other words, our secrets will  become known.  

 We believe the Tribulation is a seven-year period in which the wrath of  God is poured out upon the earth (Revelation 4:2 – 19:10). God’s wrath  is poured out upon the inhabitants of the earth for their unbelief while  the saved stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ to receive their  rewards. 

 We believe the Great White Throne judgment is reserved for every unsaved individual who  has ever lived on the earth, beginning from Adam until after the  millennial reign of Christ. This “Great White Throne Judgment” will take  place after Satan has been cast into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:10  – 15).  

We believe God created mankind as distinctly male and female from the  beginning (Genesis 1:26-28), and that these biological distinctions are  identical with a person’s gender. We believe God disapproves of any  attempt to reject the design He has given to each person, regardless of  the avenue by which it is attempted.

We believe marriage is an institution created and blessed by God, and  that it is a holy union between one man and one woman (Gen. 2:24; Matt.  19:4-6). We believe any relationship or activity that attempts to  circumvent the design God intended for marriage is forbidden and a  perversion of God’s design, including but not limited to homosexuality,  adultery, pedophilia, and pornography (Lev. 18:1-30; I Cor. 6:9-11; I  Thes. 4:1-8).