Our beliefs...

When it comes to doctrine, culture, preferences, traditions, lifestyles, politics, behavior, etc., our congregation takes a “closed-hand/open-hand” approach. The closed hand hangs onto the non-negotiable tenets of Christian orthodoxy: sin is the problem, Jesus is the answer, the Bible is true, and Hell is a reality.

The open hand, however, allows room for differences when it comes to secondary matters; we liberally allow freedom for conscience and wisdom to guide where the Bible is silent. Hence, our goal must always be love and concern for our friends so that we don’t enjoy our freedom at the expense of their faith.

In this way, we are seeking to simultaneously heed the Bible’s commands to have sound doctrine (1Timothy 4:16; Titus 1:9, 2:1), to love our Christian brothers and sisters (1 Peter 4:8; 1 John 4:7-21), and to avoid unnecessary divisions (Romans 16:17; 1 Corinthians 1:10, 12:25; Titus 3:10).

Formal statement... 

• The Scriptures are the divinely inspired, authoritative, and inerrant Word of God as originally given. 

• The living, eternal, and true God is one God, manifested in the Holy Trinity, comprising the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. 

• The Lord Jesus Christ is the divine and eternal Son of God. we believe in His virgin birth, real humanity, full deity, historical miracles, vicarious death, literal resurrection, premillennial rapture of the church, and His millennial reign as King of Kings. 

• The Holy Spirit is the divine person who convicts, regenerates, indwells, baptizes into the body of Christ, teaches and spiritually fills and empowers all believers. 

• The creation of man by God was followed by man's voluntary fall into sin and spiritual death apart from Christ. Salvation, based solely on the finished work of Christ, is entirely a gift from God which must be personally received by faith. 

• The Church is the body and bride of Christ composed of all born-again persons in this dispensation. 

• The believer will be physically resurrected into the eternal presence of God, while all others will endure conscious and eternal torment with Satan.