About Us

WE BELIEVE that God is the Eternal King. He is an infinite and unchangeable Spirit perfect in holiness, wisdom, goodness, justice, power, and love. From all eternity He exists as the One Living and True God in three persons of one substance - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit equal in power and glory.

WE BELIEVE that God created mankind in His own image, male and female, for relationship with Himself and to govern the earth. Under the temptation of Satan they fell from grace introducing sin, sickness, and God’s judgment of death to the earth. Through the fall Satan and his demonic hosts gained access to God’s good creation, which now experiences the consequences and effects of Adam’s original sin. Human beings are born in sin and, apart from salvation through Christ, are subject to God’s judgment of death, being held captive to Satan’s kingdom of darkness.

WE BELIEVE that in order to bring redemption, God established covenants which revealed His grace to sinful people. In the covenant with Abraham God bound himself to His people Israel and promised to deliver them from bondage to sin and to bless all the nations through them.

WE BELIEVE that as King, God later redeemed His people from bondage in Egypt through His mighty acts and established His covenant through Moses, revealing His perfect will and our obligation to fulfill it. The law’s purpose is to bring order to our fallen race and to make us conscious of our moral responsibility. By the work of God’s Spirit it convicts us of our sin and God’s righteous judgment, bringing us to Christ alone for salvation.

WE BELIEVE that in the fullness of time God honored His covenant with Israel and His prophetic promises of salvation by sending His only Son, Jesus, into the world. Conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary as fully God and fully man in one person. Jesus was anointed as God’s Messiah inaugurating God’s Kingdom reign on earth and overpowering the reign of Satan by resisting temptation, preaching the good news of salvation, healing the sick, casting out demons, and raising the dead.  Jesus died for the sin of the world, was raised from the dead on the third day.

In His sinless, perfect life, Jesus met the demands of the law and in His atoning death on the cross He took God’s judgment for sin which we deserve as lawbreakers. By His death on the cross He also disarmed the demonic powers and opened up healing as part of the gospel to be preached. 

WE BELIEVE that the Holy Spirit indwells every believer in Jesus Christ and that He is our abiding Helper, Teacher, and Guide. We believe Jesus is the one who baptizes us in the Holy Spirit for ministry today. We believe that the Biblical pattern for this baptism in the Spirit is almost always subsequent to conversion although it may come at the time of conversion, as was the experience of Cornelius in Acts 10).

WE BELIEVE in the present ministry of the Spirit and in the exercise of all biblical gifts of the Spirit. We practice the laying on of hands for the empowering of the Spirit, for healing, for impartations of gifts of the Holy Spirit, and for recognition and empowering of those whom God has ordained to lead and serve the church. We also recognize that another of the two ways recorded in the Bible that God empowers people is through individual or corporate prayer and waiting upon God. We value both of these ways of receiving impartations and empowering experiences from God.

WE BELIEVE that the Holy Spirit inspired the human authors of the Holy Scripture so that the Bible is “God-breathed.” We receive the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments as our final, absolute authority, the only infallible rule of faith and practice.

WE BELIEVE that the whole world is under the domination of Satan and that all people are sinners by nature and choice. All people therefore are under God’s just judgment. By responding to the Good News of Jesus and the Kingdom of God the Holy Spirit regenerates, justifies, adopts, and sanctifies all who repent of their sins and trust in Jesus as Lord and Savior. By this they are released from Satan’s domain and enter into God’s kingdom reign.

WE BELIEVE in the one, holy, universal Church. All who repent of their sins and trust Jesus as Lord and Savior are regenerated by the Holy Spirit and form the living Body of Christ of which He is the head and all are members. 

WE BELIEVE that Jesus Christ committed two ordinances to the Church: water baptism and the Lord’s Supper, both being available to all believers.  

WE BELIEVE tha God’s kingdom has come in the ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ, that it continues to come in the ministry of the Holy Spirit through the Church, and that it will be consummated in the triumphant appearing of Christ: His return to the earth as King. After Christ returns to reign He will bring about the final defeat of Satan and all of his works, the resurrection of the dead, and final judgment and the eternal punishment of the wicked in the lake of fire which is the second death, and the eternal blessing of the righteous. We believe the words of Jesus in John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” Finally, God will be all in all in His new heavens and new earth, recreated by His mighty power, in which righteousness dwells forever.