our Beliefs

But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

Luke 6:35

THE CHURCH

Because the early Church met together and “continued steadfastly in the apostle’s doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers,” we believe that this is God’s pattern for the Church today (Acts 2:42).

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Baptism: We believe that all who are saved are to give the witness of a good conscience before God, being baptized by immersion (Acts 8:36-39).

The Unending Kingdom

At the end of human history, Christ will come to establish His kingdom visibly on earth and to reign in righteousness (2 Thess. 1:6-10). After this he will set up the Great White Throne judgment in the heavens for the judgment of “the dead, small and great” (Rev. 20:15). Then the present heavens and earth will pass away and a new heaven and earth will be formed in which righteousness shall dwell and the eternal Day of God will be ushered in (2 Pet. 3:10-13).

THE LORD’S COMING

According to his promise, we believe in the personal, imminent, and premillennial coming of the Lord to the air to rapture, or catch away, the Church (1 Thess. 4:13-17). “And so shall we always be with the Lord.”

SIN AND SALVATION

Because of the damage that sin has done to us, we believe that all sinners are unable to be saved from eternal punishment by their own righteousness or by good works which they may do (Gen. 3; Rom. 3:23; Eph. 2:8-9).But God, who so loves the world, has found the way to save us through the finished work of Christ on the cross of Calvary. By his sacrifice, Christ has made possible, to all who believe, a complete and eternal redemption (Rom 3:24; Eph. 1:7).

Heaven and Hell

Because Christ is raised, we also believe in the certain hope of the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust. The Bible teaches the eternal security of the saved and their everlasting blessedness with the Lord (1 Thess. 4:17). The Bible also teaches the everlasting, conscious punishment of the lost (Rev. 20:15).