Doctrine

We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are verbally inspired by God; inerrant in the original manuscripts, and they have the supreme and final authority for everything related to what we do and what we believe.

We believe in one God who exists eternally in three persons who are equal in their divine attributes: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

We believe that God the Son became incarnate in the person of Jesus Christ. We believe that he was begotten by the power of the Holy Spirit in the virgin Mary and that she gave birth to him. He is true God and true man.

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, giving Himself as a sacrifice in our place. We believe that everyone who puts their trust in Him is justified based on the blood He shed on the cross.

We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord. We believe that the risen Christ ascended to heaven, where he currently exercises on our behalf the offices of High Priest, Intercessor and Advocate.

We believe in the personal, bodily, visible, and premillennial coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the glory of his Father, to establish on earth a kingdom in which he will rule with justice and peace.

We believe that the Holy Spirit is a personal being who possesses all the distinctive attributes of Deity. He is God. He convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. He regenerates the believer in Jesus Christ, seals him, and sets him apart for a life of holiness. At the moment of regeneration, the Holy Spirit baptizes the believer into the body of Christ and comes to establish his permanent dwelling in him.

We believe that man was created in the image of God; who sinned and brought upon himself not only physical death, but also spiritual death, which consists in being separated from God. We believe that all human beings are born with a sinful nature that results in deeds (thoughts, words, and actions) of sin.

We believe that everyone who trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior through faith, without any human work, is “born again,” and becomes a child of God “created in Christ Jesus for good works.”

We believe that all the redeemed are kept eternally secure by the power of God, through the new birth, by the permanent presence and seal of the Holy Spirit in the redeemed, and through the intercession of Christ the Lord.

We believe that all born-again believers still possess, during their earthly life, the fallen Adamic nature; But we also believe that God has provided all the resources necessary for His children to be more than conquerors through the Lord Jesus Christ, through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

We believe that God heals in response to the prayer of faith, with or without medical means, according to His sovereign will and purpose. At the same time we believe that God cannot be expected to give healing in response to faith unconditionally, just as He gives salvation. The fact that God does not heal in answer to prayer does not necessarily mean that the Christian lacks faith or that there is any sin in his life.

We believe that the Church in its invisible aspect is universal, the true body of Christ and his bride, and that all who have been born again are members of it, regardless of their ecclesiastical affiliation. We believe that Christ has commanded His Church to celebrate baptism and the Lord’s Supper until He comes.

We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust; in the perpetual beatitude of the saved and in the eternal punishment of the lost.

We believe that Satan is a real, personal being.