What We Believe

We believe that the Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible is the inspired, inerrant, infallible, preserved Word of God for English speaking people. There are other English translations that may contain God’s Word, but only the KJV is able to be claimed as completely the Word of God, not only in ideas or thoughts, but in every word. 

The books of the Bible were written by holy men of God as they were moved by the Holy Ghost in such a definite way that their writings were supernaturally and verbally inspired and free from error, as no other writings have ever been or ever will be inspired. Authorized Version translators were not “inspired,” but were merely God’s instruments used to preserve His words for English-speaking peoples. 

We believe that the canon of Scriptures is closed with the sixty-six books contained from Genesis to Revelation;  no Apocryphal or Pseudo-Apocryphal books are to be considered as the Word of God. The Scripture is to be our supreme authority in beliefs and in practice. 

Dt 4:2; Ps 12:6-7; Ps 19:7-11; Ps 119:89,105,130,160; Isa 8:20; Isa 40:8; Jer 23:29; Ezk 12:25; Mt 5:17-18; Mt 22:29; Lk 24:44-45; Jn 12:48; Jn 17:17; Jn 20:30-31; Rom 3:4; Rom 15:4; Eph 6:17; II Tim 3:16-17; Heb 4:12; I Pt 1:23-25; II Pt 1:19-21; Rev 22:18-19

We believe God is a trinity, who is The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit. This is a biblical truth, not a biblical term, but can be proved through the Old Testament Genesis through the New Testament Revelation with each containing different examples and use of language describing each distinct person of the Trinity. 

The Father is the fullness of the God-head invisible, The Son is the fullness manifested, and The Spirit is the fullness acting. Each are distinct Persons and yet One. God and His attributes are immutable, immense, and infinite. He’s not limited by time, space, or His own creation; He’s omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, and full of veracity, mercy, goodness, justice, holiness, and love. 

Gen 1:26; Gen 32:30;  Dt 6:4;  Is 9:6; Is 44:6; Mt 3:16-17; Mt 28:19; Lk 1:35; Jn 1:1-14; Jn 10:30; Act 10:38; 1 Cor 8:6; Col 1:15-17; Ph 2:5-8; Eph 4:4-6; 1 Pt 1:2; 1 Jn 5:7-8

We believe the Holy Spirit is a divine person in the Trinity, equal with God the Father and God the Son. In relation to the unbelieving world, He restrains Satan until God’s purpose is fulfilled, and He convicts of sin, of judgment, and of righteousness; He bears witness to the truth of the Gospel in preaching and testimony; that He is the agent in the new birth; and that He seals, endues, guides, teaches, witnesses to, sanctifies, and helps the believer. By Him, holy men of God spoke His Word and wrote the Scriptures. 

The Holy Spirit is not an agent in the Charismatic Movement, He is the God of order and self-control, He is not the God of confusion and disorder. 

Gen 1:2; Ex 17:7; Job 26:13; Ps 95:7; Ps 104:30; Lk 1:35; Lk 12:12; Jn 14:17, 26; Jn 15:26; Jn 16:7-13; Act 5:32; Act 15:28; Act 28:15; Rom 8:11, 26; Rom 9:1; 1 Cor 2:10-11; 1 Cor 12:11; Gal 5:22-23; 2 Tim 1:7; Heb 3:7-11; Heb 9:4; Rev 1:4

We believe that Satan was once holy and enjoyed heavenly honors. Because of his pride and desire to be like the Most-High God, he fell and drew after him a host of angels (now demons) which followed him. He is now the unholy god of this world, seeking the world for whom he may devour. He is man’s greatest enemy of God, the tempter or man, the accuser of the saints, the author of all false religions, the chief power back of the present apostasy, the lord of the Antichrist, and the author of all the powers of darkness. He will be defeated at the hand of Jesus Christ and will be judged with everlasting fire, prepared for him and his angels.

Gen 3:1-24; Job 1:6-12; Job 2:1-7; Is 14:12-15; Ezk 28:13-17; Mt 12:24; Lk 10:18; Jn 8:44; Jn 10:10; Jn 12:31; Jn 14:30; 2 Cor 2:11; 2 Cor 4:4; 2 Cor 11:14; Eph 2:2; Eph 6:12; 1 Pt 5:8; 2 Tim 2:26; Heb 2:14; 1 Jn 3:8; Jd 1:6; Rev 12:4-9; Rev 20:2-10

We believe in the Genesis account of creation and that it is to be accepted literally and not allegorically or figuratively. God created the whole universe, including the earth and all therein, in six literal days, around six thousand years ago. He made the world perfect without sin or death; He pronounced it good. All forms of life were made directly by God through His Word, and their established law was that they should bring forth only after their kind. Man was created directly by God in God’s own image and likeness. Man did evolve from another species or development over interminable periods of time from lower to higher forms. 

Gen 1-2; Ex 20:11; Neh 9:6; Job 26:7; Ps 33:6; Is 42:5;  Mk 10:6; Lk 3:23-38; Jn 1:1-3; Col 1:16; Heb 1: 10, Heb 11:3; Rev 4:11

We believe that the Fall of Man, as recorded in Genesis chapter three, is to be interpreted literally as it’s recorded. Man was created in innocence under the law of his Maker, but by voluntary transgression fell from his sinless state. Consequently, all descendants of Adam inherit a corrupted and sinful nature, which comes with the prevailing tendency to sin, and all Creation is broken and cursed. All mankind are now sinners, not by constraint but by choice, and therefore are under just condemnation without defense or excuse. 

Gen 2-3; Job 31:33; Ec 7:29; Is 43:27; Hos 6:7; Rom 5:12-21; 1 Cor 15:21-22; 2 Cor 11:3; 1 Tim 2:14

We believe that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully Man. He was begotten of the Holy Ghost in a miraculous manner: born of Mary, a virgin, as no other man was ever born or can ever be born of woman. He was God even before He came physically as a man, leaving His Heavenly throne and putting on flesh. He was born in unfallen flesh, without a sin-corrupted human nature, and could not sin because of His divine nature.

Gen 3:15; Is 7:14; Is 9:6; Mat 1:18-25; Luk 1:26-33; Luk 2:1-7; Jn 1:1-3; Rom 8:3; Gal 4:4; Col 1:16; Heb 2:14; Heb 4:15

We believe that the salvation of sinners is only available by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who by obedience to the command of the Father freely took upon Himself our human nature yet without sin, honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and who by His death made a full and substitutionary atonement for our sins. 

By Him, and Him only, we have redemption through His blood. His life was not to just be an example of how to live, but rather willingly dying in the sinner’s place, the Just dying for the unjust. The Lord took the sins of the world upon Himself on the cross. Only He is in every way qualified to be a suitable, compassionate, and all-sufficient Savior. Now having risen from the dead, He is now in heaven with all honor, glory, and praise at the right hand of God, awaiting the time for His second coming to Earth. 

Isa 53:4-6; Mat 20:28; Mat 26:28; Mk 10:45; Jn 1:29; Jn 3:16; Jn 6:51; Jn 14:6; Act 20:28; Rom 3:23-26; Rom 4:25; Rom 5:2-11; Rom 6:23; 1 Cor 15:22; 2 Cor 5:18-21; Gal 1:4; Gal 3:13; Eph 1:7; Col 1:14-20; 1 Tim 2:5-6; Tit 2:14; Heb 2:9-17; Heb 7:27; Heb 9:12-28; Heb 10:10-12; Heb 12:24; Heb 13:12; 1 Pet 1:18-19; 1 Pet 2:24; 1 Pet 3:18; 1 Jn 1:9; 1 Jn 2:1-2; 1 Jn 3:5; 1 Jn 4:10; Rev 1:5; Rev 5:9

We believe that, in order to be saved, sinners must be born again. The new birth is a new creation in Christ Jesus is instantaneous and not a process. This new creation in Christ is brought about in a way beyond our comprehension, not by physical actions, physical birth, willpower, nor by the will of man, but only by God. In the new birth, sinners dead in trespasses and in sins, are made partakers of the divine nature and receive eternal life, the free gift of God.  By our voluntary obedience to the Gospel, the Holy Spirit secures us and makes us anew and that proper evidence of the new birth appears in the holy fruits of repentance and faith with newness of life.

Jn 1:12-13; Jn 3:3-8; Jn 15:5-8; Act 16:30-33; Rom 6:4-11; Rom 6:23; 2 Cor 5:17-19; Gal 5:22; Eph 2:1-10; Eph 5:9; Col 2:13; 2 Pet 1:4; 1 Jn 5:1

We believe that salvation, and all the blessings therewith, are made free to all by the Gospel. God elects those that are obedient to the Gospel to salvation. It is the duty of all to obey the Gospel by accepting the free gift of salvation with an earnest, repentant, and obedient faith. Nothing prevents the salvation of any sinner on earth but his own inherent depravity and voluntary rejection of the Gospel, leaving him in condemnation.

Matt 7:13-14; Mk 10:52; Mk 16:16; Jn 3:16-18; Jn 3:36; Jn 6:37; Jn 10:9; Act 2:21, Act 16:31; Rom 1:16-17; Rom 5:7-10; Rom 9:16; Rom 10:10-13; Eph 1:4; Eph 2:8-9; 2 Th 2:13; 2 Tim 1:9; Tit 3:5; Heb 5:9; Heb 9:28; Ja 1:21; 1 Pet 1:8-9; 2 Pet 3:9; 1 Jn 5:12

We believe that all who believe and place their faith in Jesus Christ, as according to the obedience of the Gospel, are secured and made righteous in Him; it is the judicial act of God, by which he pardons all sins of the believer. This justification by faith, not of the Law which condemns all, declares that all the claims of the Law are satisfied in respect of the justified. The Law is not relaxed or set aside, but is declared to be fulfilled in the strictest sense. The person justified is declared to be entitled to all the advantages and rewards arising from perfect obedience to the Law by Jesus Christ, who fulfilled the Law. The sole condition on which this righteousness is credited to the believer is faith in or on the Lord Jesus Christ. Justification does not give license to sin, but rather liberty to do the good works of God. 

Gen 15:6; Hab 2:4; Jn 3:16; Rom 2:13; Rom 3:20-28; Rom 4:2-8; Rom 4:20-25; Rom 5:1-18; Rom 6; Rom 8:1; Rom 8:30-33; Rom 10:3-9; 1 Cor 1:30; 1 Cor 6:11; 2 Cor 5:17-21; Gal 2:16-20; Gal 3:6-11; Gal 3:24; Gal 5:6; Eph 2:8-9; Phili 3:8-11; Tit 3:7; Heb 12:14

We believe that repentance and faith are inseparable from one another. They are both wrought in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, convicting us of our sin, God’s righteousness, and our need of salvation. We turn to God with a broken and contrite heart, confessing our sins and acknowledging our helpless, sinful state before Him, at the same time receiving mercy by the Lord Jesus Christ, accepting Him as our only and all-sufficient Savior. 

Repentance is a persistent endeavor after a holy life in a walk with God by the way of his commandments and sanctification by the Word of God. The true believer will want to repent of His wicked ways and follow after Christ. He strives to be holy, as God has declared Him by faith in Christ. Without faith in God there can be no true repentance. 

2 Chr 7:14; Job 42:5-6; Ps 51:11; Ps 119:128; Ps 130:4; Prov 28:13; Ezek 18:21-23;  Matt 4:17; Matt 9:13; Mk 2:17; Lk 5:32; Lk 13:3; Lk 15:7; Lk 24:47; Act 2:38; Act 3:19; Act 5:31; Act 11:18; Act 17:30; Act 19:4; Act 20:21; Rom 2:4; 2 Cor 7:9-10; 2 Pet 3:9; 1 Jn 1:9; Rev 2:5

We believe that a church is a visible, local assembly of baptized believers, gathered together as a body with Jesus Christ as the head. There is no invisible, universal church. When someone is saved, they become a part of the family of God, becoming a child of God, however are not automatically added unto the church. The first church was started by Jesus Christ, Himself being the pastor; it was not started at Pentecost. 

There is no authority to start churches outside of the authority of the church, as Christ has given authority to do so. Not all assemblies who call themselves a “church” are churches. True Baptist churches in history are traced back to the church started by Jesus Christ, identified not only in name but in doctrine. They are associated by a covenant of faith and fellowship of the Gospel, observance of the ordinances of Christ, governed by His laws, and exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word; and that its officers are pastors and deacons whose qualifications, claims and duties are clearly defined in the Scriptures. 

It is scriptural for true churches to cooperate with each other in contending for the faith and for the furtherance of the Gospel. Every church is the sole and only judge of the measure and method of its cooperation; and that on all matters of membership, of policy, of government, of discipline, of benevolence, the will of the local church, as according to the Scripture, is final. 

The local church has the right of self-government, free from any outside hierarchy of individuals or organizations, to further the mission of the church as found in the Great Commission: to preach the Gospel and to make disciples by baptizing them and instructing as He commanded.

Mat 16:18; Matt 18:15-20; Mat 28:19-20; Act 1:8; Act 2:41-47; Act 20:28; Rom 12:4-5; Rom 16:17-18; 1 Cor 3:17; 1 Cor 12:27-28; Gal 1:9; Eph 2:20-22; Eph 4:12-13; Col 3:16; 2 Thes 3:6-14; 1 Tim 3:1-13; 1 Tim 5:17; Tit 1:7; Tit 3:10; Heb 10:24-25; Jam 5:19-20; 1 Pet 4:10-11; Rev 1:13-20; Rev 2:5

We believe that Biblical baptism is the total immersion in water of a believer in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. It is done by the authority of the local church, to show forth a symbol of our faith in the crucified, buried, and risen Saviour with its effect in our death to sin and resurrection to a new life. Baptism is prerequisite to the privileges of a church membership and to the Lord’s Supper, which the members of the church by the use of bread and the fruit of the vine are to do in remembrance of the death of the Lord Jesus Christ until his second coming, preceded always by solemn self-examination. I do not believe in the doctrine of transubstantiation. 

Mat 3:16; Mat 26:26-29; Mat 28:18-19; Mk 14:22-25; Lk 22:19; Jn 6:55-59; Act 2:41-47; Act 8:36-39; Act 16:30-33; Act 20:7; Rom 6:3-5; 1 Cor 10:16-17; 1 Cor 11:2; 1 Cor 11:20-30 

We believe that all the saved are eternally secure in Christ. It is a work of God that seals in us the gift of salvation with the Holy Ghost; it can't be lost or taken away once it’s received. 

Jn 3:16; Jn 5:24; Jn 6:37; Jn 10:28; Rom 6:4; Rom 8:38-29; Rom 11:29; 2 Cor 1:22; Eph 2:8-9; Phili 1:6; 1 Jn 5:10-13; Jd 1:24

We believe that there is a difference between the righteous and the wicked. The righteous are those that by faith, have accepted Jesus Christ, the Son of God, as their Savior are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and sanctified by the Spirit of our God. All those that continue in unrepentance and unbelief are in His sight wicked and are subject to the curse and condemnation. 

Ps 34:21-22; Ps 37:28; Ps 97:10; Pro 10; Isa 55:7; Ezk 18:21; Dan 12:10; Jn 3:16-20; Jn 8:11; Rom 2:1-29; Rom 3:11-28; Rom 5:1-2; Rom 8:1; Rom 8:34; 1 Jn 1:9; 1 Jn 3:20

We believe that the churches and civil government are to be separate, though both ordained of God. The purpose of civil government is for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of them that do well. We are to be subject to civil government with observance to laws, paying taxes, and rendering unto them due fear and honor to the extent that we do not disobey God, as we’re to fear and honor Him above all. We’re to pray for those in authority and not speak against those that have the rule over us that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty, for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior. 

Ex 22:28; Matt 22:17-21; Mk 12:13-17; Jn 19:11; Rom 13:1-7; Act 5:29; Act 23:5; 1 Pet 2:13-17; 1 Tim 2:2-3; Tit 3:1

We believe that the resurrection of Jesus Christ arose physically and all events and details related to His resurrection, as recorded in Scripture, are to be taken literally. The Lord Jesus Christ’s return is imminent; he will come in the air to catch all His true believers away before the Great Tribulation. After the Tribulation, He will return again to the earth with His saints to reign for a thousand years. 

Job 19:25-26; Isa 26:19; Dan 2:44; Dan 9:24-27; Dan 12:2; Mat 16:27; Mat 24:26-44; Mat 25:31-46; Mk 16:1-7; Lk 24:1-53; Jn 11:25; Rom 8:11; Rom 8:34; Rom 10:9; Rom 14:9; Act 1:11-14; Act 3:15; Act 17:31; Act 24:15; 1 Cor 6:14; 1 Cor 15:3-32; 1 Thes 5:2-9; 1 Thes 4:14-17, Tit 2:13; Heb 9:28; 1 Pet 1:3; 1 Jn 2:28; Rev 1:7; Rev 3:11; Rev 20:1-15; Rev 22:12-20

We believe that the mission of the local church is to take the Gospel to every nation, tribe, people, in every language; everyone in the Church is to preach the Gospel to as many people as they’re able. The Great Commission is not an option, but a command: to preach the Gospel, see people saved, baptized, discipled, and to train them to do the same. 

Isa 6:8; Mat 24:14; Mat 28:18-20; Mk 13:10; Mk 16:15; Lk 24:47; Act 1:8; Act 13:47; Act 17:11; Rev 7:9

We believe that giving through tithes and offerings are intended to be a joy and a blessing, it is to be done out of a right heart, not begrudgingly or of constraint. God’s method of financing His work of the Great Commission is giving to the local church, directed and distributed by the Holy Spirit's leading. Everyone is personally accountable to the Lord in regards to giving. Tithing was instituted before the Law was given and practiced by the early church; upon the first day of the week everyone in the church should give according to how God has prospered.

Gen 14:20; Deut 14:22-29; Deut 26:12; Lev 27:30-34; Pro 3:9; Pro 3:27; Pro 21:26; Mal 3:8-10; Mat 6:1-4; Mat 6:19-21; Mk 12:41-44; Lk 3:11; Lk 6:30-38; Lk 12:33-34; Lk 21:1-4; Act 4:32-35; Act 20:35; 1 Cor 13:3; 1 Cor 16:1-2; 2 Cor 8:1-15; 2 Cor 9:6-11

We believe that God has instructed marriage to be between one man and one woman for one lifetime. He has commanded that no sexual activity should be engaged in outside of the confines of marriage as designated by God. We believe that polygamy, adultery, fornication, homosexuality, bisexuality, pedophilia, bestiality, incest, and pornography are all sinful perversions of God’s gift of sex and design for mankind.

Gen 1:27-28; Gen 2:18-25; Gen 3:16-21; Ex 20:14; Ex 22:19; Lev 18:19-23; Lev 19:29; Lev 20:13; Deut 5:18; Deut 22:5; Pro 4:23; Pro 5:18-19; Pro 6:32; Mat 5:27-32; Mat 19:4-12; Mat 22:30; Mk 10:6-9; Act 15:29; Rom 1:18-32; 1 Cor 5:1; 1 Cor 6:9-20; 1 Cor 7:1-9; 1 Cor 10:8-13; 1 Cor 11:11; 2 Cor 5:17; Gal 5:16-21; Eph 4:19; Eph 5:3; Eph 5:33; Col 3:5; 1 Thes 4:3-7; 1 Tim 1:9-11; Heb 13:4; 1 Pet 3:1-7; 1 Pet 4:3; Jude 4-7; Rev 21:8; Rev 22:15