Credential Statements

We Believe……

      • In the verbal inspiration of the original Scriptures.
      • In the absolute trinity of the eternal God-head.
      • In the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ.
      • In the personality and deity of the Holy Spirit.
      • In the reality and personality of the devil.
      • In the natural depravity of the human race.
      • In the substitutionary atonement.
      • In the propitiation for sin only by the blood of Christ.
      • In full salvation by grace through faith, and not by works.
      • In divine healing through the atonement and prayer for the sick.
      • In the personal baptism of the Holy Spirit.
      • In the necessity of the new birth.
      • In water baptism by immersion at an age of accountability.
      • In the true Church composed of all blood-washed believers.
      • In the evangelism of the heathen and the nations of the world.
      • In obedience to civil government.
      • In divorce only on New Testament scriptural grounds.
      • In church government, loyalty and obedience to those in authority over us in the Lord.
      • In tithing as God’s financial plan.
      • In the restitution for past wrongs whenever possible.
      • In the open table at the Lord’s Supper.
      • In the maintenance of good works and holy living.
      • In the victorious life over sin, self, and bad habits by Bible study and incessant prayer life.
      • In Christian perfection and holiness, through absolute surrender and consecration.
      • In Christian modesty in matters of dress and wearing apparel.
      • In the keeping of the Lord’s day as a matter of privilege rather than law.
      • As regards recreation: liberty of conscience and Godly example to the world.
      • In the immortal and conscious existence of the soul.
      • In the resurrection of our literal bodies, the just and the unjust.
      • In a literal Heaven and life everlasting for all true believers.
      • In a final day of judgment for the incorrigibly wicked.
      • In the everlasting punishment of the impenitent.
      • In the personal, literal, bodily per-millennial coming of Jesus Christ.
      • In a future, literal, 1,000 year reign of Christ on earth with His saints.
      • In the judgment seat of Christ where the saints will finally be rewarded for their deeds of commission and omission.
      • In Christian tolerance to all denominations of Christian faith.

“In essentials–unity; in non-essentials–liberty; in all things–charity.”