We believe that the Bible is God’s Word, that it was written through a process of dual authorship in which the Holy Spirit so superintended the human writers that through their individual personalities and different styles of writing, they composed and recorded God’s Word to man without error in whole or in part. We believe that this written Word of God is the believer’s and the church’s only infallible authority for faith and living. (1 Cor. 2:13; 2 Tim. 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21; Matt. 4:4)
We believe in one Supreme God existing eternally in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – having the same nature, attributes, and perfection. We believe God is an unchangeable, infinite, and perfect Being in wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth. We rejoice that He concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of men, that He hears and answers prayer, and that He saves from sin and death all that come to Him in faith through Jesus Christ. (Gen. 1:26; Deut. 6:4; Psa. 139; Isa. 45:5-7; Matt. 28:19; Acts 17:24-29; 2 Cor. 13:14; John 3:16-19; 15:7)
We believe in Jesus Christ the eternal and only Son of God, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, having become man without ceasing to be God, sinless in His life, and making atonement for the sins of the world by His substitutionary death. We believe in His literal, bodily resurrection from the dead, His ascension into heaven, His present high-priestly work of intercession, and literal, visible, pre-millennial return to the world according to His promise. (John 1:1-3; Luke 1:31-35; 2 Cor. 5:18-21; 1 Cor. 15:3-6; Heb. 7:24-27; Acts 1:11; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; Rev. 19-20)
We believe that the Holy Spirit came forth from the Father and Son to convict the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment; to regenerate, indwell, sanctify, comfort, seal, and fill those who savingly trust in Jesus Christ; and to glorify Jesus Christ by transforming into His image the lives of those who believe in Him. (John 16:7-11; 14:16-17, 26; Rom. 8:26-30; 1 Cor. 2:13; 2 Cor. 3:18; Eph. 5:18-6:9)
We believe man, though created in the image of God, fell into sin by deliberate choice and thereby incurred not only physical death as punishment of the justice of God, but spiritual death which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, and in the case of those who reach an age of moral accountability, become sinners by practice in thought, word, and deed. And therefore, we believe man is totally depraved (helplessly sinful by nature), in that of himself, he is utterly unable to remedy his lost condition. Jesus Christ is his only hope. (Gen. 3; Psa. 51:5; 58:3-4; Jer. 17:9; Isa. 53:6; Romans 3:9-20; 5:18-21; Titus 3:5-7)
We believe that salvation (deliverance from the penalty, power, effects, and presence of sin) is the gift of God brought to all men by His grace and received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, whose atoning blood was shed on the cross for the forgiveness of sins. We believe this faith in Christ is an indispensable necessity, and that all who neglect and reject Jesus Christ the Savior will suffer eternal punishment from God. (Isa. 53:4-7; Rom. 3:21-31; 5:8-9; John 1:12; 3:16, 36; Rom. 1:16-17; 2 Thess.1:8-10; Rev. 12:9-11)
We believe in the reality and personality of Satan, that he, along with a host of fallen angels, seek to dominate, ruin, and destroy the works of God in and on behalf of man. (Gen. 3; Job 1-2; 2 Cor. 11:14-15; Rev. 12:9-11 We further believe that Satan is a defeated foe and will finally be cast into the lake of fire in eternal destruction. (Heb. 2:14; Rom. 16:20; Rev. 20:10)
We believe all who have placed their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ are united together immediately by the Holy Spirit in one Spiritual Body, the Church of which Christ is the Head; that local gatherings of believers constitute God’s primary agency for accomplishing His purposes in the world, the salvation of the lost, and the conforming of the saved to Christ’s image. We believe God gave to the Church two ordinances to aid in her edification (growth): baptism of believers (symbolizing the believer’s union with Christ in death and resurrection), and second, He gave the Lord’s supper, which when observed, remembers the sacrifice of our Saviour for our sins and those of all men. (Matt. 16:18; Acts 1:4-5; 2:41-47; 11:15; 1 Cor. 12:13; Col. 1:18; Matt. 28:16-20; Luke 22:19-20; 1 Cor. 11:23-29)
We believe that the life of the believer is to be one separated from the world by a consistent conduct before God and man, and is to be in the world as a life-giving light for the lost. By consistent conduct, it is meant that our lives be in harmony with the teaching of Scripture and the Church.
As a Community Church, we truly want to be an assembly where people from various denominational backgrounds can worship and serve in harmony. Therefore, we have tried to keep our statement of faith sufficiently general to do this, yet at the same time be true to Scripture.
This is of course, our aim in all our preaching, teaching, and various activities. Thus, we have deliberately avoided undue emphasis on certain doctrines that are peculiar to a single, or group of denominations (though we recognize that to these people such doctrines are generally held to be essential).