What We Believe
The church accepts the Scriptures as the revealed will of God, and adopts these Statements of Fundamental Truths and Doctrine.
1. The Bible is the inspired Word of God and the revealed will of God.
II Peter 1:2-21 Men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.
II Timothy 3:16-17 The Scripture is “God-breathed.”
Romans 15:4 The Scriptures are “written for our instruction.”
Romans 12:2 Renewing our minds with God’s Word enables us to experience God’s perfect will.
2. One God manifested in three personalities – The Father, Son, and The Holy Ghost
A. Three persons, yet one God:
Deuteronomy 6:4 The Hebrew word translated “one” here denotes a compound unity, rather than a simple unity.
There is a multiplicity of person in the “One God”: The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost.
Genesis 2:24 As a man and woman become “one flesh” in marriage, so God the Father, God the Son, and God the
Holy Ghost are “One God.”
Genesis 11:6 Again we see many being one. So it is with God. The Three are one God.
B. The plurality of God is indicated in:
Genesis 1:26-27 “Let US make man in our image.” “So God created man in His own image.”
Genesis 3:22 “…man is become like on of US.”
Genesis 11:7 “Come, let US go down and there confuse their language…”
C. Three persons of God are mentioned in:
I Peter 1:2 “…according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Christ.”
I Peter 3:18 “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit.”
II Corinthians 13:14 “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.”
3. The reality of Satan, Evil Spirits, and Hell
A. Satan’s existence is proven by the scriptures.
Ezekiel 28:11-19 Describes who Satan was before his fall
Isaiah 14:12-20 Describes his sin and his fall from heaven
Luke 10:18 Jesus saw his fall
Matthew 4:1-11 We see his existence in the temptation of Christ
John 8:42-44 Satan is a murdered and a liar
John 10:10 He is a thief who comes to steal, to kill, and to destroy
B. Control of Unbelievers
II Corinthians 4:3-4 Satan is described as the god of this world who blinds the minds of the unbelieving.
John 14:30 He is the ruler of this world
Ephesians 2:2-3 He controls unbelievers
C. Hell is a real place.
Matthew 5:29-30 Speaks of being cast into hell
Matthew 25:41-46 “everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.”
Mark 9:47 “cast into hell…and the fire is not quenched.”
Luke 12:5 Being cast into hell follows death
D. The devil/demons can torment believers if they allow it.
Ephesians 6:16 The shield of faith will quench all the fiery darts of the devil. Now shield of faith means the darts will hit their mark and cause some affliction.
James 4:7 Resist the devil and he’ll flee from you. But if you don’t resist, he won’t flee.
II Corinthians 2:11 If we’re ignorant of the devil’s schemes, he’ll have an advantage over us and some degree of affliction will take place.
Matthew 16:18-19 Gates of hell will not prevail over us IF we use the keys of binding and loosing. But if we don’t use those keys, if we permit and don’t use our authority to forbid, the gates (government) of hell will prevail.
Luke 10:19 “Behold I give you power (authority) over all powers of the devil.”
4. The person and work of Jesus Christ
A. His Deity – He was and is God
John 1:1-4,14 “the Word was God”
John 10:30 “I and the Father are one.”
Colossians 1:13-20 Jesus is the image of the invisible God
Colossians 2:9 “…in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form”
II Corinthians 5:19 “…God was in Christ.”