Statement of Faith
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We subscribe to the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith.
"This little volume is not issued as an authoritative rule, or code of faith, whereby you are to be fettered, but as an assistance to you in controversy, a confirmation in faith, and a means of edification in righteousness. Here the younger members of our church will have a body of divinity in small compass, and by means of the Scriptural proofs, will be ready to give a reason for the hope that is in them. Be not ashamed of your faith; remember it is the ancient gospel of martyrs, confessors, reformers, and saints. Above all, it is the truth of God, against which the gates of Hell cannot prevail. Let your lives adorn your faith; let your example adorn your creed. Above all live in Christ Jesus, and walk in Him, giving credence to no teaching but that which is manifestly approved of Him and owned by the Holy Spirit. Cleave fast to the Word of God which is here mapped out for you.” —Charles Haddon Spurgeon to his own congregation in 1865 |
We believe the Bible to be divinely inspired, infallible, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God.
We believe there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
We believe in the virgin birth of the Lord Jesus Christ, His deity, His sinless humanity and perfect life, the eternal all-sufficiency of His atoning death, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the Father's right hand, and His second coming which is the blessed hope of the believer.
We believe that justification (salvation) is an act of God, based solely on the righteousness and atoning death of Jesus Christ, and that becoming "born again" by the power of the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential for salvation - that is by grace alone through faith alone.
We believe in the Lordship of Christ over His church; the observance of the ordinances of baptism by immersion for believers and the Lord's Supper.
We believe in the eternal blessedness of the redeemed in heaven and the eternal punishment of the unsaved.
We believe there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
We believe in the virgin birth of the Lord Jesus Christ, His deity, His sinless humanity and perfect life, the eternal all-sufficiency of His atoning death, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the Father's right hand, and His second coming which is the blessed hope of the believer.
We believe that justification (salvation) is an act of God, based solely on the righteousness and atoning death of Jesus Christ, and that becoming "born again" by the power of the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential for salvation - that is by grace alone through faith alone.
We believe in the Lordship of Christ over His church; the observance of the ordinances of baptism by immersion for believers and the Lord's Supper.
We believe in the eternal blessedness of the redeemed in heaven and the eternal punishment of the unsaved.