What We Believe
We hold to a system of belief that traces its roots back to the Protestant Reformation of the 16th Century.
We firmly hold to the authority of Scripture, the sovereignty of God, salvation by grace through Christ, and the necessity of evangelism. There is an emphasis on the covenant God made with Adam and the new covenant which came through Jesus Christ (Luke 22:20).
The Authority of Scripture – we teach that the Bible is the inspired and authoritative Word of God, sufficient in all matters of faith and practice (2 Tim 3:16).
Sovereignty of God – we teach that God rules with absolute control over all creation. He has foreordained all events and is therefore never frustrated by circumstances. This does not limit the will of the creature, nor does it make God the author of sin (John 8, Romans 8, Eph. 1 -2).
Salvation by grace – we teach that God in His grace and mercy has chosen to redeem a people to Himself, delivering them from sin and death.
Men are hopeless without God – we teach that man it utterly dead, lost and hopeless with God’s grace. Man is completely helpless in his sinful state, is under the wrath of God, and can in no way please God. We believe that man will not naturally seek to know God, until God graciously prompts him to do so (Genesis 6:5; Jeremiah 17:9; Romans 3:10-18).
God, from eternity past, has chosen to save a great multitude of sinners, which no man can number (Romans 8:29-30; 9:11; Ephesians 1:4-6,11-12).
Christ took the judgment for the sin of the elect upon Himself and thereby paid for their lives with His death. In other words, He did not simply make salvation “possible,” He actually obtained it for those whom He had chosen (Matthew 1:21; John 10:11; 17:9; Acts 20:28; Romans 8:32; Ephesians 5:25).
God’s love - the grace of God working in his heart makes him desire what he had previously resisted. That is, God’s grace will not fail to accomplish its saving work in the elect (John 6:37,44; 10:16).
God protects - His saints from falling away; thus, salvation is eternal (John 10:27-29; Romans 8:29-30; Ephesians 1:3-14).