Our Beliefs

• We believe that there is but one living, true, and eternal God; of whom are all things, from everlasting to everlasting, glorious and unchangeable.

• We believe that there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, born of the Virgin Mary, who was truly God and truly human, whom God freely sent into this world, because of the great love wherewith God loved the world.

• We believe that there is one Holy Spirit, the precious gift of the God through Christ, who is the divine presence in our lives, who regenerates and sanctifies us, and whereby we are kept in perpetual remembrance of the truth of Christ, and in whom we find our strength and help.

• We believe God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are one triune God, without beginning or end, who is indivisible in nature or being.

• We believe that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and all things therein, visible and invisible; and that God is continually working through creation to sustain and nurture it.

• We believe that in the beginning God created humankind in God’s own image and placed them in a state of glory without the least mixture of misery, from which we voluntarily by transgression fell, and by that means, brought on a mortal state subject to death.

• We believe that the Church is the body of Christ, all Christians everywhere.

• We believe that the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Scriptures were inspired by the Holy Spirit, and are God's revealed word to humanity. We believe that they are a sufficient and true rule and guide to salvation and all Christian worship and service.

• We believe that salvation is the restoration of human beings to our right relationship with God.

• We believe that those who abide in Christ have the assurance of salvation. The Christian, however, retains his freedom of choice.

• We believe that all persons are accountable to God, except those incapable of responding to God's call.

• We believe that it is the Christian's duty to be tender and affectionate one to another, to study the happiness of the people of God in general, to do justly by all people, and to be singly engaged to promote the honor and glory of God.

• We believe in the sanctity of the first day of the week, or Lord's day, and that it ought to be observed in the corporate and private worship of God, and that on it we should abstain from our worldly concerns except in cases of necessity or mercy.

• We believe that worship is the adoration of God and is duly required of all God’s children through praise, prayer, and the reading and preaching of God’s Word. Every Christian may worship God privately; however, this should never replace the corporate worship of the church.

• We believe that good works are the fruits of saving faith and include being good stewards of all God's blessings. Christians are to be responsible in the use of their time and talents. Futhermore, Christians are required to be faithful in the use of their finances for the expense of the program of Christ in the world.

• We believe in the ordinances of the gospel:

  • 1) Christian Baptism, which is the immersion of believers in water, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, in which are represented the burial and resurrection of Christ, the death of Christians to the world, the washing of their souls from the pollution of sin, their rising to newness of life, their commitment to serve God, and their resurrection at the last day,

  • 2) The Lord's Supper, which is a commemoration of the death of Christ for our sins, in the use of bread which He made the emblem of His broken body, and the cup, the emblem of His shed blood; by it the believer expresses his love for Christ, his faith and hope in Him, and pledges to Him perpetual fidelity, and

  • 3) Washing the Saints’ Feet, which teaches humility, the necessity of the servanthood of every believer, and reminds the believer of the necessity of a daily cleansing from all sin.