What We Believe

GOD: We believe that the God of the Bible is the one true living God, whose

divine nature is triune: He is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The only way to

receive salvation is to confess Jesus Christ as one's Savior and Lord, to

accept His self-sacrifice as atonement for our sins, and to have a personal

relationship with God through the Holy Spirit.

THE BIBLE: We believe the Bible to be the one and only true Word of God,

which we accept as our spiritual authority above any religious institution or

human doctrine. The Bible is a "God-breathed" revelation given to us by the

prophets and the apostles, the principles and promises of which are fulfilled

in the person and work of Jesus Christ.

BAPTISM: We follow the biblical practice of baptism by immersion, holding it

to be an important public confession of faith, and symbolic of the death, burial

and resurrection of Jesus, by whose grace we are born again as children

of God.

THE LORD'S SUPPER: We share in a monthly remembrance of the Last

Supper, as Jesus ordained it, taking the bread and the cup to be symbols of

our Lord's broken body and shed blood. We invite all Christian believers to

commune with us in the name of Jesus.

THE CONDITION OF MAN: We believe that all of us are born out of sin, live

in sin, and fall short of the Glory of God, though we can be forgiven and

saved from eternal death by the grace of our Savior Jesus Christ.

THE PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH: We believe that Jesus is the Head of the

Church, and the members make up a body of Christ on Earth whose purpose

is to preach the Gospel and be a Christ-like example of service, love, peace

and forgiveness.

THE ROLE OF THE PASTOR: As described in 2 Timothy, a pastor should

serve a local congregation through preaching, teaching, encouraging, discipling,

directing and correcting, while seeking to equip the members to use

their own gifts in ministry.

OUR BAPTIST HERITAGE: As a Baptist congregation, we identify with the

traditional Biblical distinctives of Baptists, centered around the God-given

liberty of the individual to find God and follow the Scriptures, the liberty of

the local congregation from institutional dictates, and the liberty of religion

from control by civil government.