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Our Foundational Teachings
The Bible is completely
the inspired Word of God and constitutes the written revelation
from God to man. By completely inspired we mean that the 66 books
of the Bible are in every word inspired by God in their original
autographs.
God is one living and
true God, infinite and perfect in all His attributes. He is one
in essence but eternally existing in three persons — Father,
Son and Holy Spirit — each equally infinite and unchanging
in being and attributes.
Jesus Christ is the Son
of God, born of a virgin, and lived a sinless life. He died on the
cross to pay for the sins of believers, rose bodily from the dead
on the third day, ascended into the presence of God the Father and
will return in power and glory. He is fully God and fully man. The
purpose of the incarnation was to reveal the fullness of God to
man, to seek and save lost sinners, and to die a sacrifice for sin.
The Third Person of the
Trinity, the Holy Spirit, is God. He possesses all that is divine.
Man, in his original state,
was created free from sin with a rational nature for the purpose
of glorifying God. Man chose to separate himself from God and thus
incurred both spiritual and physical death for himself and mankind.
The condition of fallen man from birth is that of darkness of mind,
depravity of will and death in the soul. Man by nature is dead to
God and unable to save himself apart from the intervention of the
Holy Spirit.
Salvation is entirely
the work of God and not man. This salvation was predetermined before
the foundation of the world; it was Christ's redemptive work that
atoned for man's sin as He carried believer's guilt. Men are saved
and justified on the grounds of Christ's work alone, by God's grace
alone, through faith alone.
Resurrection will occur
physically for believers and unbelievers. The saved will be resurrected
to an eternal state of joy with God, the unsaved to eternal punishment
and suffering apart from God.
For a more complete statement on what we believe please see the
1689 London Confession of Faith.
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