1. We believe in the verbal inspiration and absolute final authority of the Old and New Testaments as originally given, without error or contradiction, and altogether sufficient in themselves as the only rule of faith and practice. (2Timothy 3:16, 17:2; Peter1:20,21)

2. We believe in the Trinity of the Godhead, one God in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit; all three equal in nature, power, glory, and each to be worshipped equally as the true God. (Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 3:16,17; John 5:23; 1 Peter 1:2)

3. We believe in the absolute deity of the Lord Jesus Christ as the Eternal Word and only begotten Son of God, in His virgin birth, His perfect humanity, as being without sin. His death in the stead of sinners through the shedding of His blood for the remission of sins. His bodily resurrection and ascension to the right hand of the Father, His present ministry of intercession there as our great High Priest, and in the imminence of His personal return at which time He will catch away His bride, the church, and so shall we ever be with our Lord. (Matthew 1:23, 20:28; John 1:1, 3:16; 20:25-28; 1Thessalonians 4:13-17; Hebrews 4:15; 1John 2:1)

4 We believe in the personality and deity of the Holy Spirit, who convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgement, indwells believers, bears witness with our spirit that we are God’s children, guides us into all truth and seals us unto the day of our redemption. (Matthew 28:19; John 16:8-11, 13; Romans 8:16; 1 Corinthians 6:19; Ephesians 4:30)

5 We believe in the reality and personality of Satan who is the author of sin, the cause of the fall, and that though his power is great it is less than God’s and we are able to resist and overcome him in the armor of God’s Word and by the blood of the Lamb. (Job1:6,7; Ephesians 6:12-18; James 4:7; Revelation 12:11)

6 We believe that all men are sinners by nature, practice and choice; and that they have no personal merit, which could save them from sin and its wages of everlasting death. (Romans 3:10, 23; Ephesians 2:8,9)

7 We believe that the salvation of sinners is wholly of grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, in virtue of His redemptive work on the cross, where He died in our place, bearing our sin; and that neither baptism, the Lord’s Supper, nor any other rite, ceremony, or work can avail the least bit for the sinner’s salvation. (Ephesians 2:8,9; 1 Peter 1:18,19.)

8 We believe that the universal church or body of Christ, includes all born-again believers from Pentecost to the Second Coming of Christ, and that her supreme task is to go into all the world and preach the Gospel, as commissioned by Jesus Christ. We believe that a local church membership should be composed of only born-again believers. (Matthew 16:18, 28:18-20;Acts 1:8, 2:47; 1 Corinthians 12:12,13; Hebrews 10:25.)

9 We believe that every believer has a direct relationship with God and is responsible to God alone in all matters of faith; that each church is independent and self-governing and must be free from interference by any outside ecclesiastical or political authority, and that the church and state must be kept separate, each fulfilling its function free from the dictation or patronage of the other. (John 21:22; Acts 15:23-29; Romans 2:6, 13:7, 14:12; 1 Timothy 2:5.)

10. We believe in two Church Ordinances: The Lord’s Supper (the Eucharist) which was established as a means of showing forth, in symbol, Christ’s death for us until He comes again. The Lord’s Table should be open to all saved people living in fellowship and in obedience to Jesus Christ. We also believe in Baptism by immersion after salvation, in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost. (Matthew 28:19;Acts10:47-48; 1 Corinthians 11:23,24.)

11. We believe in the literal resurrection of the body, that both the saved and the unsaved shall be raised from the dead, but their resurrections are separated by a thousand years; that the saved, at death immediately go to be with Christ, where they abide in conscious fellowship with Him until His return for the church at which time their bodies shall be raised from the grave and made like His body, and thereafter shall ever be with their Lord; that the unsaved at death go immediately to hell to remain in conscious suffering until the day of the Great White Throne Judgment, at which time their bodies shall be raised from the grave, themselves judged and all cast into the lake of fire for everlasting punishment. (Luke 16:19-31; John 5:28,29; 1 Corinthians 15:35-58; 2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 3:20, 21; Revelation 20:5, 11-15.)

12. We believe in the eternal salvation of the believer, that we can know that we have eternal life, and that we are kept by the power of God, that He will never leave us or forsake us, and that He which hath begun a good work in us will finish it one day, but that gives us no excuse to sin but should lead us all the more to live holy, godly lives. (John 6:37-40, Galatians 5:13; Philippians 1:6; Hebrews 5:9, 12:14; 1 Peter 1:5; 1 John 5:13.)

13. We believe in the separated life, that we should walk even as Christ walked, being obedient to God’s Word that we may not be a stumbling block to those around us. (Matthew 19:9; Romans 7:1-3; 1 Corinthians 8:10; 2 Corinthians 6:14; 1 Peter 2:11; 1 John 2:6.)

14 Further, that the above articles of faith do not exhaust the content of our creed which is the whole Word of God, but are, as far as they go, a true representation of what we believe, and binding upon us as Christian believers.