The purpose of this organization shall be to promote the following:
(1) The preaching of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ in order to win people to a personal faith in Him as Savior. (2) To provide for the worship of God, the preaching and teaching of the Word of God, to administer the ordinances of the New Testament, to seek the spiritual improvement of its members, to maintain a local Baptist Church to minister to its own community, and to extend a ministry of the gospel unto all the earth.
The Bible
All Scripture is divinely inspired by God. The Holy Bible is God’s revelation to mankind. We believe that God not only inspired every word, but that He also preserved them through the ages. We believe the King James Bible to be the preserved Word of God for the English Speaking people. (II Tim 3:16; II Pet 1:21)
God
One God eternally exists in three Persons: Father, Son, & Holy Spirit. (Mat 3:16-17; I Cor 8:16; II Cor 13:14; I John 5:7)
Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, and is 100% God and 100% Man. (Mat 1:18-23; John 1:1, 14)
The Fall of Man
Salvation
Christ died for our sins as a substitutionary sacrifice, and all who trust in Him are justified by his shed blood. (John 3:16; Rom 5:1, 8-9; I Tim 2:5; Heb 9:11-15, 27-28)
The crucified body of our Lord was resurrected from the dead; He ascended into Heaven and is there our intercessor. (Mat 28:6; I Cor 15:4; Acts 1:9; Rom 8:34; Heb 7:25)
The personal, premillennial, pretribulational return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, is imminent. (John 14:2; Acts 1:11; Rev 4:1)
Salvation is by grace through faith alone in the finished work of Christ on the cross. (Eph 2:8-9; John 6:47; Rev 3:20)
All believers are baptized into the true body by the Holy Spirit and are set apart to a holy walk. (I Cor 1:30; I Cor 12:13; Eph 2:10; I Pet 1:14-19)
All true believers, having been born into the family of God, are possessors of everlasting life, shall never perish, and are eternally secure. (I Pet 1:3-5; John 10:28-29)
The bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust is certain, as is the everlasting blessedness of the saved and everlasting punishment of the lost. (I Thes 4:13-18; Rev 20:11-15; John 5:28-29)
The Local Church
The church began with the calling out of the twelve apostles by Jesus Christ and was empowered on the day of Pentecost. As an Independent Baptist Church, we are governed by God and His Word. We believe the local church is God’s only institution to carry out His work today. We believe the local church is composed of members who have been saved and baptized according to the command of Christ. (Mat 16:16-18; Acts 1:15; Acts 2:41-43)
Immersion is the only scriptural mode of baptism and is for believers only. (Rom 6:3-4; Acts 8:36-38)
The Lord’s Supper is a commemoration of His death until He comes, and is to be celebrated periodically. (Luke 22:17-20; I Cor 11:23-30)
Conduct
Abortion
We believe that human life begins at conception and that the unborn child is a living human being. Abortion constitutes the unjustified, unexcused taking of unborn human life. Abortion is murder. We reject any teaching that abortions of pregnancies due to rape, incest, birth defects, gender selection, birth or population control, of the mental well-being of the mother are acceptable. (Job 3:16, Ps. 51:1, 139: 141-6; Isaiah 44:24; 49:1, 5; Jeremiah 1:5, 20:15-18, Luke 1:44)
Creation
Human Sexuality
We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between one man and one woman. We believe that any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, beastiality, incest, fornication, adultery, and pornography are sinful perversions of God’s gift of sex. We believe that God disapproves of and forbids any attempt to alter one’s gender by surgery or appearance. ( Genisis 2:24, Gen. 19:5, 13: Gen. 26:8-9, Lev. 18:1-30, Romans 1:26-29, I Cor. 5:1; 6:9, I Thess. 4: 1-8 Hebrews 13:4)