OD: We believe that there is one, and only one true and living God. He is absolute in nature perfect in attributes, holy in character, the maker and supreme rule of heaven and earth; that he is infinite in wisdom, marvelous in power, and amazing in love. Gen 1:1 Deut 4:39, Mark 12:29, Gen 17:1, Matt 5:48, Isa 6::3, IChron 29:11, Psa, 103:19, Rom 11:33-34, Matt 19:26, Psa 19:9, Matt 28:19, I Pet 1:2-3, I Jho 5:7, Exo 3:14, Gen 1:28, and Titus 3:3-7:
HE DIVINE TRINITY: God the Father. We believe that God the Father is the first person set forth in the Divine Trinity. Matt 28:19, Gen 17:1, Matt 19:26, Psa 19:9, Isa 6:3, Psa 100:5, Prov 15:3, Psa 139:1-6, Psa 139: 13-14, Psa 103:13 Matt 6:25-30 Matt 10:29-31, and Matt 7:11
od the Son virgin born. We believe that God the Son is the second person set forth in the Divine Trinity; that He is Very God of vary God. His divine Father Is God and Mary the virgin is actually and innocently His human mother. That He in harmony with His divine office, mediates, seeks, and saves thus exercising the mediatorial office of redemption. Matt 28:19, Jno 1:1-3 and Isa 9:6, Matt 28:18, Titus 3:5-6, Jno 2:24, Matt 28:20, Luke 1:35, and 2:7-14, I Tim 2:5-6, Luke 19:10 and Jno 3:16.
od the Holy Spirit. We believe that God the Holy Spirit, is the third person set forth in the Divine Trinity. He equal with God the Farther and God the Son in Power and righteousness. He restrains the world , the flesh and the devil: that he witnesses to the Truth, convicts the lost, extols the Christ, and testifies of the righteous judgments of God. Jno 14:16-17, and 26, Jno 15:26,m Jno 16:7-13, Heb 9:14, I Pet 4:14, Isa 40:12-15, I Cor 2:10-12, Psa 139:7-12, II Thes 2:6-7, Jno 3:6, 8 Eph 1:13-14, Acts 1:8,, I Pet 1:2 and Isa 61:1
HE DEVIL We believe that Satan is an actuarial person and not an imaginary influence; the he once enjoyed high heavenly honors and glorious heavenly privileges; that he, through the pride, ambition, an self-will attempted to betray the Almighty and brought down upon his head the judgement of God; the he operates today as the god of this world and the prince of the power of the air.Job 1:6-12 and Job 2:1-7, Ezek 28:12-19, Isa 14:12-27, and Gen 3:14, II Cor 4:4, and Eph 2:2, Matt 24:11 and II Thes 2:7-11 and Jno 8:44,m I Pet 5:8 and Gen 3:1-6 and Rev 12 :10, Dan 7:8 and Rev 13:1-10, and Rev 19:20, Gen 3:15, II Cor 11:13-15, Jno 14:20 and Eph 1:2
HE HOLY BIBLE: We believe that the Holy Bible is a supernatural Book; that is the very Word of God; that it is the full , the final, and the complete revelation of God's will to man, that it has God, the Holy Spirit, for its author, salvation for its end and truth in the original without any admixture of error for its matter; that it was written by holy men of old under the immediate and direct diction of the Holy Spirit; that it is verbally inspired and perfect treasure of holy instruction; and the it reveals the principals by which God will judge us, and is, therefore, the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds and opinions shall be tried. Psa 119:89, II Tim 3:16-17, Rev 22:19-19, Jno 17:17, Jno 3:32-34, Ii Pet 1:20-21, I Pet 1:10-12, Zeph 1:1, Psa 19:7-11, Exo 20:3-17, Psa 1:2, and Jno 12-48
REATION: We believe that Genesis record of creation is literal, and not allegorical or figurative; that God personally created the heaven and the earth and all that is therein including man. That is was created perfect and in seven days; not over a period of million and billion of years. God said "let it be, and it was so". Gen 1:1, and Jno 1:1-3, 14 and Heb 11:3, Gen 1:21, 24-27 and Gen 2:7, and Col 1:16
HE FALL OF MAN: We believe that man, originally crated in the holiness and actually associated with God in innocence under His law, did, by voluntary transgression of the Lord's command, fall from the high and happy state in which he was created, and, as a consequence, became a sinner alienated from God and brought upon himself and all mankind just condemnation; and that he is now, by virtue of his fallen nature , utterly void of holiness, positively inclined to evil, and actually condemned to eternal ruin, without defense or excuse. Gen 1:26-27, and Eccl 7:29, Gen 3:6, Gen 3:23-24, Ezek 18:4, Rom 5:12, Rom 1:21-23 and Rom 3:10-18, Rev 21:8.
HE BLOOD ATONEMENT; we believe that the lost sinner is guilty and already under just condemnation; that he is by nature alien to God and because of sin condemned to die; that atonement for sin was effected through the mediatorial office of the Son who by divine appointment freely took upon Himself our nature, yet without sin; that He through obedience during His earthly walk, personally honored the divine Law by keeping it, and, through His death on the cross actually satisfied the penalty of the offended law by suffering in the sinner's stead; that he through his obedience and sacrificial death made full and vicarious atonement for all sin; that He died, the just for the unjust, bearing our sins in His body on the tree; and the He through the shedding of His blood on the cross of Calvary, evidenced eternal prevision for cleansing, for parson, for peace and for rest. Isa 53:6, Rom 6:7 and Rom 8:23, I Tim 2:5-6 and Heb 2:17 and II Cor 5:21, Matt 5:17-18, and I Pet 2:24, heb 10:10-12, I Pet 3;18, Rev 1:5, Isa 55;7, Jno 14:27, Matt 11:28 I Jno 1:7, Eph 1:7 and Heb 9:22.
EPENTANCE AND FAITH: We believe that repentance and faith are solemn and inseparable prerequisites of salvation; that they are inseparable graces wrought in the heart by the quickening Holy Spirit; that the alien sinner, being deeply convicted of sin, of righteousness, and of judgement to come by the personal understanding enlightened so that he can see the way of salvation through Christ, does actually repent turning to God with unfeigned contrition, confession, and supplication, and does actually believe, surrendering himself wholeheartedly to the Lord Jesus, immediately receiving Him as personal and all-sufficient Savior and openly confessing Him before all men. Acts 20:21-22, and mark 1;15, Acts 11:18, and Eph 2:8, and Jno 6:44, Jno 16:8-11, Matt 3:1-2,8, Acts 3:19, Luke 13:3 and Luke 18:9-14, Acts 9:6 and Rom 10:10.
ALVATION BY GRACE: We believe that grace is elective and saving: that it embraces the personal triune and redemptive ministry of God, the Father, and God, the Son, and God, the Holy Spirit; that it comprehends all the labors put forth by the Almighty in the interest of perfect righteousness and the foreknowledge, foreordination, and predestination; that it, and it alone, saves even unto the uttermost all who repent toward God and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ; and that salvation thus wrought is wholly by grace, "The free gift of God," requiring neither culture nor works in any form to secure it or to keep it. II Tim 1:8-0, and Eph 2:8-9, Titus 3:3-7, and IPet 1:2-5, Matt 23:27, Rom 8:23-30, Heb 7:25 and Acts 20:20-21, Rom 6:23, Rom 11:6 Rom 5:20, Isa 1:18, and Isa 55:1.
EGENERATION: We believe that in order to be saved lost sinner must be regenerated or bone again: regeneration is re-creative act. Jno 3:3-5, 7, II Cor 5:17, Jno 3:8, and Jno 3:16, Jno 1:12-13, Isa 1:18, and Titus 3:5-7, Eph 2:1,5, and Rom 6:23, Jno 16:8-11, Matt 7:16-18 and James 2;17-20.
USTIFICATION: We believe that justification is one of the great gospel blessings secured through Christ for all who trust Him: that it is a legal and divine decree, declaring the believing sinner just. Rom 3:24-25, Rom 3:28, Rom 8:23, Rom 8:1, and Jno 5:24, and Rom 4:3-8, Rom 6:6, 5:9, Rom 5:1, and Phil 4:7, Rom 8:31-33, Gen 15:6, and Heb 2:4.
ECURITY OF THE BELIEVER: We believe that salvation wrought by grace is everlasting: that the saved soul journeying through the valley of the shadow of death need fear no evil; that the Holy Spirit-begotten and born are kept by the power of God: that the believer in Christ Jesus shall not be brought into judgment; that no one can lay anything to the charge of God's elect:; that they are securely held in both the hand of the Father and the Son; and that the age-old Baptist doctrine, "Once in grace, always in grace," is heavenly and gloriously true. Jno 3:16, Jno 3:36, Jno 5:24, Jno 6, Psa 23:4, and Rom 8:1, Jno 10:27-29 and Rom 8:31-33, and Rom 8:25-39, and II Tim 1:22.
HE LORD'S RETURN: We believe that Christ Jesus is coming back to earth again; that His return shall be personal audible, visible, and bodily; that it shall mark the advent of the "day of the Lord" and usher in the millennium; and that He shall in that day turn the tables on Satan, take up the throne of His father David, put down all of His enemies, rule with a rod of iron, triumph over sin, and give the world an example of righteous government during His thousand years of personal reign on earth. Job 18:25-26, Isa 9:6-7, Zech 14:4 and Mal 4:2 and Like 1:31-33 and Matt 25:31-34, Rev 19:11-21, and Acts 1:11 and I Thes 4:16-17, and Rev 1:7 II Pet 3:10, Rev 20:4-6, Rev 19:20 and Rev 20:1-3 and Rev 20:10 Isa 9:7, I Cor 15:25-27, Psa 2:9 and Rev 12:5, and Rev 19:15, I Jno 3:3 and Psa 72:1-20.
HE RESURRECTION: We believe that Christ Jesus arose bodily from the grave on the first day of week, which day we now observe as the Lord's Day, a day of worship, that His miraculous emergence from the tomb forecasted a like bodily resurrection for every member of the Adamic race; that the dead in Christ shall rise first and in glorified bodies like His; that they shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the air; that the dead in trespasses and sins, or the dead out of Christ shall rise at the close of the millennium; and they shall be brought before the Great White Throne Judgment and there face the Judge of the quick and the dead. Matt 28:6, and Luke 24:1-12, I Cor 15; 12-22, I Thes 4:13-18, Rev 20:5-6, Rev 11:15, Dan 12:3, I Sam 2:6, Isa 28:a9, Hosea 13:14, and Isa 25:6-8.
NDIVIDUAL REWARDS: We believe that reward and salvation are not one and the same thing. I Cor 3:11-15, I Thes 4:16-18, and Matt 24:40-41, Matt 13:47-50, I Cor 3:8, and Rev 21:1-8, Jno 8:44, Rom 8:7, Jno 3:18, Rev 20:10-15, Rom 6:23.
HE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED: We believe that there is a radical and essential difference between the righteous and the wicked. Mal 3:16-18 and Jon 3:6, Rom 3:22,24 and Rom 4:3, and Rom 1:17, Rom 8:1-17 and Acts 20'32, and Jno 15:3, Rom 8:17, Rom 6:23, II Cor 4:4, Rev 21:8 and Matt 23:37 and Prov 29:1 and Matt 24:41.
HE LOCAL CHURCH: We believe that a New Testament Church according to divine purpose and plan, is a visible, local, organized body; that it is composed of baptized believer associated together by a covenant of faith and fellowship in the Gospel; that New Testament validity follows from strict obedience to essential principles of New Testament Law; that it is a sovereign, independent, democratic and militant body; that its ministry is gloriously blessed with the presence and leadership of the Holy Spirit and the light and revelation of the Written Word; that its work should ever be from within to without and never from without to within; that it is a self-governing body and is the sole judge, under the limitations of the Scriptures, of the measure and method of co-operative alignments, and support is final; that it was personally founded by Christ Jesus during His ministry on earth; that it is subject to His laws and is the custodian of His ordinances; that the perpetuity of our faith, our doctrines and practices, ordinances and ordinations, has been effected through the Holy Spirit personally planting and preserving local Baptist churches of like faith and order down through the centuries even until now. Matt 28:19-20, I Cor 1:1-3, Acts 2:41-42, II Cor 8:5, Matt 16:19 and Matt 18:15-17 and Jno 14:16-17, Matt 16:18-19, Matt 26:26-29 and Matt 28:19-20, I Tim 3:15, Mark 3:13-14, and Luke 6:12-13.
RDINANCES: We believe that Baptism and the Lord's Supper are ordinances personally set in the Church of the living God by the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that Baptism is the burial of t a believer in water by the authority and instruction of the local Baptist Church; that it symbolizes the death and the burial and the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ: that it also typifies the believer's death to sin, the burial of this old nature, and this resurrection unto a new life; and that it is administered in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. We believe the Lord's Supper is a memorial spread and administered by the authority and instruction of the local Baptist Church; that it symbolizes the broken body and the shed blood of the Son of God; that its observance points backward to the crucified Lord on Calvary and forward to the returning Lord in glory. We believe that these ordinances are not sacraments, but are sacred symbols, pointing to the world's only Savior, and bidding the sons of men look unto an everlasting fellowship with the King of kings and Lord of lords when He shall return to take over the reins of all government. Matt 26:26-29, Matt 28:19, Rom 6:3-5, and Matt 16:19, and acts 10:47, I Cor 11:23-24, I Cor 11;24-25, and I Cor 11:26.
HURCH ADMINISTRATION: We believe that the Churches of God and the state should be kept completely separate, that civil officers should be prayed for, conscientiously honored and obeyed; that diligence should be had in seeking the will of God in all Church matters; that missionary endeavor should ever be executed from within the local Church to without; that pastors and deacons, the only divinely appointed Church officers should be duly ordained and brought to understand the sacred duties devolving upon them; that the Lord's Day, the first day of the week, should be honored both by saint and sinner; that Bible teachings should be constantly and consistently fostered by local Church bodies; that unruly Church member should be prayerfully and Scripturally disciplined by the local Church; and that Church letters should be granted to sister local Churches of the same faith and practices. Acts 1:8, and Acts 13:1-35, Rom 13:1-7, Acts 14:23, and Acts 6:1-6, Acts 2:42, Rev 1:10, Matt 16:19 and Acts 10:47, Matt 18:15-17, Acts 15;19-27, and Acts 18:27 and Rom 16:1-2 and Matt 28:19-20.
HRUCH CO-OPERATION: We believe that it is the privilege and the right of local churches to co-operate with each other in carrying out the commission of the Lord; that such co-operation is righteously effected only when the principles of Christ are preserved in the work fostered; and that all associated endeavor of local Churches should be carried on in such a way as to preserve the sovereign integrity of each local body in all matters of faith and practice. II Cor 8:1-6, 16:24 IIJno 1:4, Matt 16:18-19, and Acts 15:19-27.
HURCH FINANCE: We believe God's plan of finance for the Church is Tithes and Offerings; that the Tithe belongs unto the Lord and it is the obligation and privilege of each Christian to pay his Tithe and give his Offering unto the Lord through the Church; that he is to give of all his increase upon the first day of the week; systematic spirit; that such monies will enable the Church to foster the commission of our Lord. the Church as Custodian of God's monies, will use it wisely. Lev27:30, Matt 23:23, Mal 3:10, Prov 3:4, II Cor 9:6-8, I Cor 16:2, I Cor 9:13-14.
ISSIONS: We believe that missions is the sole responsibility of each local New Testament Church that Missionaries are Divinely called and then ordained by the Local Church; that it is the responsibility of the Church to support God-called Missionaries and not extra-scriptural organization; that Missionaries are to be sent forth by the Holy Spirit through the Church: that they are to win the lost to Christ baptize them and organize Churches of like faith and order. The Local New Testament Church is the only authorized organization to carry out the commission of our Lord. Matt 28:18-20, mark 16:15, Luke 24:46-49, John 17:18, Acts 1:8, Acts 13:1-4, Rom 10:13-17