Our Beliefs

Mission – We’re growing into:

1. Knowledgeable, Spirit-led disciples of Jesus (focus on our spiritual self)

   • We teach the uncompromised holy written word of God, building the knowledge of God in the congregation, enabling us to walk in His wisdom and the authority God has given us against fear, against sickness and disease, against all the effects of the devil.
   • We listen intently to the Holy Spirit and obey Him, observing the fruit of the spirit in our lives as part of His sanctifying work, conforming us to the image of Christ.
   • Hebrews 4:12, Romans 8:14

2. United in love for each other (focus on the church)

   • We love and deeply care about all our brothers and sisters in Christ. We don’t limit our affection to only those that we are most familiar with, but extend our love to all of the brethren inside and outside our church.
   • John 13:35  
3. Committed to reaching the lost (focus on the world)

• • Although it feels sometimes as though the world may persecute the church, we welcome them into our church services. We boldly bring love to them without compromising the word of God, and demonstrate God’s compassion for them with healing, signs, wonders, and miracles.
  • John 4:35

Our Values

• Focus on Outreach: Genuinely caring for the unsaved, with an emphasis on introducing them to Jesus and demonstrating God's love for them by stretching out God's hand to heal (Acts 4).
• Genuine Unity: There must be an undeniable unity among the believers. Not an artificial, forced unity as has been common in in other places, but a unity based on freedom. In other words, allowing people to be honest with their own confusion and feelings, but teaching them to discuss them correctly. Then always remain approachable - willing to spend individual time with people. No shaming others. Always point back to Jesus and the Word of God. This brings about a unity based on love.
• Always, always, always magnify/reflect God’s love. We’ll focus on prayer and teaching on God’s love and faithfulness.
• Marked by genuineness, authenticity, transparency, friendliness, reverence toward the things of God without compromising God’s word, but also without taking ourselves too seriously.

• The Bible is the inspired Word of God. We believe the Holy Spirit inspired authors of all 66 books of the Bible to write exactly what they wrote. The New Covenant, as recorded in the New Testament, is just as useful for guidance in conduct and doctrine today in the 21st century as it was when it was written. (2 Tim. 3:16; 1 Thess. 2:13; 2 Peter 1:21).
• Our God is One, manifested in three Persons—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. God the Father is greater than all; the Sender of the Word and the Begetter (John 14:28; John 16:28; John 1:14). The Son of God, Jesus, is the One Begotten, and has existed with the Father from the beginning (John 1:1; John 1:18; John 1:14). The Holy Spirit proceeds forth from both the Father and the Son and lives on the earth today in the hearts of every believer. (John 14:16; John 15:26).
• Man is a created being, made in the likeness and image of God, but through Adam’s transgression and fall, sin came into the world. The Bible says “...all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God,” and “...There is none righteous, no, not one” (Rom. 3:10; 3:23). Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came into the world to give His life and shed His blood to redeem and restore man back to God, a work which He accomplished fully. (Rom. 5:14; 1 John 3:8).
• Salvation is the gift of God to man through faith in Jesus Christ, separate from works and the Law, and we receive it by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. (Eph. 2:8–10).
• The New Birth is necessary to all men, and when experienced, produces eternal life. Man’s first step toward salvation is repentance - turning away from our sins. The New Birth is necessary to all men, and when experienced, produces eternal life (2 Cor. 7:10; John 3:3–5; 1 John 5:12).
• Baptism in water is by immersion, is a direct commandment of our Lord, and is for believers only. The ordinance is a symbol of the Christian’s identification with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection (Matt. 28:19; Rom. 6:4; Col. 2:12; Acts 8:36–39).
• The Baptism in the Holy Spirit is a gift from God as promised by the Lord Jesus Christ to all believers and is received subsequent to the new birth. This experience is accompanied by the initial evidence of speaking in other tongues as the Holy Spirit Himself gives utterance (Matt. 3:11; John 14:16,17; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:38,39; Acts 19:1–7; Acts 2:1–4).
• We believe in the Doctrine of Sanctification, living a life of holiness, as a progressive work of grace, starting from the time we receive Jesus as Lord and continuing until the time we go to heaven. (Heb. 12:14; 1 Thess. 5:23; 2 Peter 3:18; 2 Cor. 3:18; Phil. 3:12–14; 1 Cor. 1:30).
• Healing is the privilege of every member of the Church today provided through Jesus’ death on the Cross. Healing is for the physical ills of the human body and is wrought by the power of God through the prayer of faith, and by the laying on of hands. It is provided for in the atonement of Christ, and is the privilege of every believer today (James 5:14,15; Mark 16:18; Isa. 53:4,5; Matt. 8:17; 1 Peter 2:24).
• Jesus will return and “. . . The dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air . . .” (1 Thess. 4:16–17).” The angels said to Jesus’ disciples, “...This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” His coming is imminent. When He comes, “...The dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air...” (Acts 1:11; 1 Thess. 4:16,17).
• The one who physically dies in his sins without accepting Christ is eternally lost and, therefore, has no further opportunity of hearing the Gospel or repenting (Heb. 9:27; Rev. 19-20).