Who We Are

In the Holy Trinity consisting of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, three persons co-eternal; the same in substance but distinct in subsistence. (Matthew 3:16, 17; II Corinthians 13:14)

In God the Father, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal and immutable; full of love, justice, goodness, mercy and truth. (Ephesians 4:6; I Corinthians 8:6; I Timothy 2)

In God the Son, our only Saviour, full of grace and truth, by whom all things were made, who is the image of God, in whom all the fullness of the God-Head dwells in bodily form. (Colossians 1:14-19; John 1:1-3, 14; Acts 4:12) We believe in His deity (John 1:1); humanity (John 1:14); virgin birth (Matthew 1:18-20); death (John 19:33, 34); burial (Matthew 27:57-60); bodily resurrection (Matthew 28:6,7) ascension (Acts 1:9); exaltation (Hebrews 1:3); and coming again (Thessalonians 4:16, 17).

In God the Holy Spirit, the third person of the trinity, whom the Father sent into the world to reprove it is of sin, righteousness and judgment and to testify of Jesus Christ. (Matthew 28:19; John 16:8-14).

He generates, indwells and baptizes each believer into the Body of Christ, sealing each unto the Day of Redemption. (Titus 3:5; I Corinthians 3:16; I Corinthians 12:12-14; Ephesians 1:13, 14)

The Holy Spirit guides each believer into truth and it is the responsibility of each believer to “walk in the Spirit’. (John 16:13; I John 2:20-27; Galatians 5:16)

That the scriptures in the original writings are verbally inspired of God without admixture of error in their substance and that they were written by holy men of God who spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. The scriptures are final in authority in all a matters of conduct and doctrine. (II Timothy 3:16, 17; II Peter 1:21)

In the church, the bride of Christ; and that it is the body of Christ, with Christ as the head. The Church (which began at Pentecost and will conclude with the rapture) consist of all believers of this present age. (Matthew 16:18; Revelation 19:7; Colossians 1:18)

That the establishment and continuance of the local church is clearly taught and defined in scripture. (Acts 14:27, 20:17, 20:28-32; I Timothy 3:1-13; Titus 1:5-11)

That God is sovereign in the bestowing of all His gifts and that diverse gifts are given for the equipping, edifying and unifying of the church. However, the sign gifts gradually ceased as the New Testament Scriptures were completed and their authority became established. (I Corinthians 12; Romans 12:3-8; Ephesians 4:7-12)

In the holy ordinances of water baptism and the Lord’s Supper. (Matthew 28:19; Acts 8:36-39; I Corinthians 11:23-26)

That Satan is a person, a created angelic being, the author of sin and the cause of the fall; that he is the open and declared enemy of God and man; that he shall be eternally punished in the lake of fire. (1 Peter 5:8; Job 1:6,7; Ezekiel 28:14, 15; Isaiah 14:12-17; Matthew 4:2-11, 25:41; Revelation 20:10)

That God created an order of spirit beings known as angels, before the formation of the world, for the purpose of worshipping and serving Him. Angels possess individual personalities, are intelligent and powerful, yet inferior to God but superior to man. (Colossians 1:16; Hebrews 1:6; II Peter 2:11)

There are holy unfallen angels who carry out the will of God (i.e., ministering to redeemed men). (Hebrews 1:14)

There are unholy, fallen angels who assist Satan. These fallen angels, known as demons or evil spirits, can influence and tempt all men and even possess unbelievers. (Ephesians 6:12; Jude 6)

That man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam’s sin the whole race fell, inherited a sinful nature and became alienated from God; and that man is totally depraved and of himself, utterly unable to remedy his lost condition. (Genesis 3:1-7; Romans 5:12, 6:23; Titus 3:5)

That our salvation has been accomplished through the substitutionary death of Christ on the cross, whose precious blood was shed for the forgiveness of our sins, without any admixture of works on the part of man. This salvation is the gift of God brought to man by grace and must be received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 2:8-10; II Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 3:13; I Peter 1:18, 19, 2:24)

That every saved person possesses two natures, with provision made for victory of the new nature over the old nature through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit; and that all claims of the eradication of the old nature in this life are unscriptural. (Romans 6:13, 8:12, 13; Galatians 5:16-25; Ephesians 4:22-24; Colossians 3:10; 1 Peter 1:14-16; 1 John 3:5-9)

That all the redeemed, once saved, are partakers of the Divine Nature and are kept by God’s power and are thus secure in Christ forever. (John 6:37-40, 10:27-30; Romans 8:38, 39; I Corinthians 1:4-8; I Peter 1:4, 5; II Peter 1:4)

That it is the privilege of believers to rejoice in the assurance of salvation, the inheritance of incorruptible things, redemption, justification, propitiation, adoption, reconciliation, sanctification and ultimate glorification. (I John 5:12-13; I Peter 1:4; Galatians 3:13; Romans 5:1, 3:25; Galatians 4:5-7; II Corinthians 5:18-19; I Corinthians 1:30; Romans 8:30)

In the bodily resurrection of all men; the saved to eternal life and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment. (Matthew 25:26; John 5:28, 29, 11:25, 26; Revelation 20:5, 6, 12, 13)

That the souls of the redeemed are, at death, absent from the body and present with the Lord, where they shall live in perfect peace and bliss awaiting the resurrection when spirit, soul and body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord.

In a literal hell, a place of torment and anguish in which those souls of the unbelievers remain after death in conscious misery until the second resurrection, when with soul and body reunited they shall appear at the Great White Throne Judgment, and shall be cast into the lake of fire, prepared for Satan and his angels, not to be annihilated but to suffer everlasting conscious punishment. (Matthew 25:21-46: Revelation 20:4-6, 11-15: II Thessalonians 1:7-9)

Judgment of the believer’s sins in the cross of Christ. (John 3:17, 18; John 12:31)
Judgment of the believer himself.(I Corinthians 11:31)
Judgment seat of Christ; the evaluation of the believer’s works. (II Corinthians 5:10; I Corinthians 3:13-15)
Judgment of the Gentile nations (Matthew 26:32)
Judgment of Israel. (Ezekiel 20:37)
Judgment of angels. (Jude 6)

In the imminent, personal pre-tribulation return of Christ in the air for His Saints, which event is the blessed hope of the church, and at which time the righteous dead shall be raised and the living Saints shall be caught up into the air to be eternally with Christ. (I Thessalonians 4:13-18; I Corinthians 15:51-54)

In the personal; pre-millennial return of Christ to the earth with His Saints to establish His Millennial Kingdom following the Great Tribulation of seven years. (Matthew 25:31-34; Revelation 19:8-16)

That the scriptures interpreted in their natural literal sense reveal divinely determined periods of time in which man’s responsibilities in successive ages are defined. These dispensations are not ways of salvation but rather divinely ordered stewardships by which God directs man according to His purpose. For example, we now live in the dispensation of the Church. (I Corinthians 9:17; II Corinthians 3:9-18; Galatians 3:13-25; Ephesians 1:10, 32:20; Colossians 1:24- 25; Hebrews 7:19; Revelation 20:2-6)