Statement of Faith

1. We believe the Bible, both the Old and New Testaments, to be the only infallible, Word of God, and that it is His holy and inspired Word and is of supreme and final authority in faith and life.
   
   
2. We believe that there is only one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
   
   
3. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal, visible, pre-millennial, and imminent return ("that blessed hope") to power and glory.
   
   
4. We believe that man was created by God, that he sinned, and thereby incurred not only physical death, but also spiritual death, which is separation from God; that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, and that those who reach moral responsibility become sinners in thought, word, and deed.
   
   
5. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice; and for the salvation of lost and sinful man, spiritual regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential; and that this salvation is received through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ as Messiah, Savior, and Lord, and not as the result of good works; and that this salvation comes through God's grace and once received is eternally secure and cannot be lost -- often referred to as the perseverance of the saints.
   
   
6. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life which includes concern for the hurts and social needs of our fellow man.
   
   
7. We believe the receiving of the Holy Spirit is one aspect of conversion and is experienced by all believers; that all Christians have certain spiritual gifts, but some gifts, since the beginning of the Church, have been discussed as to their existence for that day and up to today. Among these is "tongues". We lean toward the view that the gift of tongues did in fact cease at the end of the Apostolic age. There are sincere Christians who do not agree with this position, but they are asked not to practice or teach "tongues" while on our campus.
   
   
8. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
   
   
9. We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.