Doctrine
The Bible is our guide and map for how we lead our church body. With deep studying of the Word, we rest on these doctrinal principles that shape our belief.
What We Believe
Belief / Faith In Christ & What He Says Is what you believe important? Is determining where you will spend eternity important? faith has two basis: First a person, secondly a statement. Our faith is in the person of Jesus Christ. By placing our faith in Christ, we are entrusting our very soul, our destiny to Him, (John 3:16). We have a “conviction of things not seen,” (Hebrews 11:1). We believe in His virgin birth, His perfect life on this earth, His sacrificial death on a cross for sins and the miraculous resurrection from the dead providing us eternal life with Him forever. We secondly place our faith not only in Him as a person, the only Son of God, but we believe wholeheartedly in what He has said. In John 14:6, Jesus says, “I am the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father except through Me.” Our faith is in His way, His truth and His life.
Confession
Of Our Sins & The Lordship Of Christ
In Matthew 16:16, Jesus has asked the disciples who they think He is. Peter confesses with his mouth that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. Confession is simply acknowledging with one’s mouth, the Lordship of Christ in their lives. But a second part of confession stems from our being able to confess as well that we are sinners, have sinned, are sinning and need to be forgiven, restored and reconciled back to God through Christ. (1 John 1:9, Psalm 32:5)
Repentance
From Our Sinful Life And Beginning A New Life In Christ
No one can go two directions at the same time. You’re either headed away from God or towards God. Repentance is what happened to the prodigal son. He “came to his senses” and realized he needed to “return.” He turned his back on the things of this world and returned to his father. (Romans 2:4, 2 Corinthians 7:10)
Baptism
Being Buried With Christ For The Forgiveness Of Sins And To Receive The Holy Spirit
Baptism is a death to sin and becoming alive in Christ. No person is commanded (Matthew 28:19,20) to be baptized unless they are capable of understanding the gospel of Christ and their willingness to accept it. The word baptism as it appears in the New Testament means immersion, the process of full submersion in water. During biblical times the word baptizo was tied to the dying of materials. Cloth would be submerged into a color and completely covered, thus something new came out. (2 Corinthians 5:17). Acts 2:36-38, Acts 22:16, Romans 6:3-6, John 3:5, 1 Peter 3:21 Recommended Books:
- Baptism, A Biblical Study, Jack Cottrell
- Born of Water, What the Bible Says About Baptism, Rex Geissler
Salvation
Safety, Deliverance, And Soundness Through Christ
Ephesians 1:4 says, “Long ago, even before God made the world, He chose us to be His very own. He decided to make us holy in His eyes, without a single fault, we who stand before Him covered with His love.” God loves you. He proved it through sending His Son to suffer and bear the weight of our sins on a cross. Christ took our place, our punishment upon Him. (Isaiah 53:4-6). We sinned (we turned our backs on God’s way), we turned towards believing in ourselves, thinking we could save ourselves. But when faced with the reality of death, we realized we can’t save ourselves. Romans 3:23 says, “For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.” Because of this turning and falling, we need a Savior. Jesus came to this world to save us. Through Christ’s life, we are offered a gift, an invitation to receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior. The Bible tells us that our response is believe/faith in Christ, to confess our sins, to repent (turn towards God) and be baptized (immersed in water) and to be raised in newness of life to follow Christ (disciples) with our whole life, (Lordship). This is a gift. We can, because of choice – ignore or reject this gift through Christ. We can doubt God’s love, we can even go so far as to reject this love. But you will NEVER find this kind of unconditional love anywhere else.
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