THE BIBLE

We believe that the Bible is God’s Word. It is given by the inspiration of God. We believe this divine inspiration of the Bible is both verbal and plenary. By ‘verbal’ we mean that it is the ‘written text’ that is ‘inspired’; and it is plenary in that divine inspiration extends equally and fully to every part of the Bible as they appeared in the original manuscripts. We believe therefore, that the Bible in its original autographs is inerrant and infallible. By ‘inerrancy’ we mean that the Bible is true in all what it affirms. By ‘infallibility’ we mean that the Bible as God’s written Word cannot go wrong because God does not and cannot do wrong. Hence, the Bible is absolutely trustworthy for everything regarding faith and practice.

GOD - THE TRINITY

We believe that God is Triune. By this we understand that “God’s whole and undivided essence belongs equally, eternally, simultaneously and fully to each of the three distinct Persons of the Godhead” — The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit. The three are one in that they have the same nature, attributes, and perfections, and are worthy of the same Worship, Trust, and Obedience.

JESUS CHRIST

We believe that Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, the second Person of the Trinity. He came to manifest God and to become the Redeemer of this world. He was born of a virgin, received a sinless human body and nature and remained a perfect man throughout. He retained His absolute deity, being at the same time fully God and fully man.
We believe that Christ first came in fulfillment of OT prophesies to Israel, He gave His life as ransom for all according to the counsels of God. We believe that Christ’s death was both penal and substitutionary in the absolute sense. By His death Christ became the Savior of the lost.
We believe that Christ physically rose from the dead, in the same body, though glorified. We believe that the resurrected Christ physically ascended to Heaven to the Father.
We believe that the risen and now glorified Christ has become Head of all things and of the Church which is His spiritual body.
We believe that as He went, the Lord Jesus Christ will physically return to earth, in person with power and great glory.

THE HOLY SPIRIT

We believe that the Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Trinity. We believe that, on the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came to dwell permanently in every believer, and by His baptism He unites all to Christ into one spiritual body. We understand that the Holy Spirit is not a just divine ‘force’ but a distinct person who is fully God just as the Father and the Son. We believe that the Holy Spirit gave spiritual gifts to equip the saints for edifying one another.

ANGELS

We believe that God created an innumerable number of sinless, spiritual beings, known as angels. But one, Lucifer— “the shining one”—sinned through pride, thereby becoming Satan. A great company of the angels followed him in his moral fall; some of them became demons. We believe that Satan is the originator of sin, and that, he deceived our first parents Adam and Eve into transgression. He is the enemy of God and the people of God; and He opposes the program of God. We believe that Satan was defeated at the Cross, but not judged then, and that he now rules as the “god of this world.” At the second coming of Christ, Satan will be bound and cast into the abyss for a thousand years, and after the thousand years he will be released for a little while before finally being cast in to the lake of fire.
We also believe that a great company of angels did not fall but kept their holy estate and are before the throne of God. From here they are sent to minister to those who are the heirs of salvation.

MAN

We believe that God created both man and woman in His image, the image of God. We understand that man was made first and then the woman for the man as a pattern laid down by God regarding their respective roles.

SIN

We believe that though man was created in the image of God he fell through sin. The consequence of this is that he lost his relationship with God. We understand that sin in its essence is the lack of faith in God; it is unbelief in God’s goodness and His promises. We believe that Adam’s sinful human nature has been transmitted to the entire human-race, the only exception being the Man Christ Jesus; hence every child of Adam born into the world is with a nature which is essentially and unchangeably sinful. We believe that man in his sinful state is totally depraved in his ability to please God and merit salvation in any way. Hence, we believe that all are sinners and unable to save themselves.

SALVATION

We believe that our salvation has been fully accomplished solely by the death of our Lord Jesus Christ. He died for our sins in our place. Christ’s life and death is fully sufficient to save a believing sinner. Nothing in any way can add any value to Christ’s finished work for us.
We believe that the new birth of the believer comes only through faith in Christ. We believe that when an unregenerate person exercises that faith in Christ, he passes immediately into eternal life out of spiritual death. He is fully justified before God. We believe it is the privilege of all true believers to be assured of their salvation from the day they take Him as their Savior. We also believe that this assurance is wholly based upon the surety of God’s written Word, and not upon any self-worthiness.

THE CHURCH

We believe that the Church is God’s program for today. We believe that all who put their trust in Christ alone as their Savior are immediately placed by the Holy Spirit into one spiritual body, known as the church of which Christ is the Head.
We believe that ‘water baptism’ (immersion) and the Lord’s Supper are the only two ordinances for the church to practice in this age. We believe that Christ himself is the Lord and supreme authority of a local church. The biblically designated offices serving under Christ and over the assembly are the elders and the deacons. We believe in the biblical autonomy of a local church. We believe that rewards are promised according to the faithfulness of each believer in his service to His Lord in the building up of the church.

LAST THINGS

We believe that, the next great event in the fulfillment of prophecy will be rapture of the church. We understand this event to be the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in the air to receive to Himself those who have trusted Him for their salvation in this age. We believe that the rapture of the church will be followed by the fulfillment of prophet Daniel’s “seventieth week” for Israel. During this time the church, will be with the Lord in heaven. We believe that the 7-year tribulation on the earth will be climaxed by the second coming of Christ. We believe that God will bring in the eternal state after the millennium. Following Christ’s 1000 year reign, Satan will be released from the abyss to rise up one last revolt against God, before he is finally defeated and thrown into the lake of fire. After this final judgement, Christ will usher in the eternal state of a new heaven and earth with the glorified saints and the holy angels dwelling in God’s presence forever.