Our Beliefs:
We believe that those whom God has saved are sent into the world by Christ as He was by the Father. Those so sent are ambassadors commissioned to go make disciples and make Christ known to the whole world. We also believe in the work and the role of the Holy Spirit in the life and ministry of the ambassador to be a usable vessel and a playable instrument in the making of disciples. We believe that the Holy Spirit will take the spiritual truths that the ambassadors have studied, lived and come to know of Him (Christ) and enable the ambassadors to speak, reach and teach others about Christ and the Holy Spirit will then in His way and time will cause the listener to make a decision both intelligent and revelatory about Christ as Saviour. (Matt 28: 18-20; John 15:17– 18, 20-21; Acts 1; Rom 10:14-15; 2Cor 5: 18-20; Col 4: 2-6; 2 Tim 2: 14-26)
We believe man was created in the image of God; that he sinned in Adam and thereby incurred both physical and spiritual death (separation from God); I snow a sinner by nature and by choice; and is in need of salvation. (Gen 1:1, 27; 2:17; 3:1-19; Isa 14:12-14; Luke 20:36; Heb 1:13:14; 2:5-8; 1 Peter 2:4; Jude 6; John 12:31; Heb 2:14; Rev 20:10; John 1:1-3; 8:44; Col 1:16-17; Rom 5:12 -21; Eph 2: 1-3)
We believe in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ’s substitutionary payment for our sins, not based on human merit, works, or religious ceremony. We believe that assurance comes to the believer from at least three primary sources: trusting the Word of God’s promises, the witness of the Holy Spirit, and a persevering walk with the Lord. (John 1:12; 2:3, 16; 2Cor 5:17-21; Eph 2:8-9; Titus 3: 4-7; Dan 12:1-2; Matt 25:31-46; John 3:16, 36; 4:24; 10:28-29; 11:25=26; Rom 8:28-39; 1 John 4: 11-13; Jude 1; Rev 20:12-15)
We believe in the physical and glorified resurrection of the human body at the second coming of Christ; We believe in the eternal and physical conscious existence of all in either heaven or hell; We believe in the rewards of the saved and the punishment of the lost for eternity. (1Cor 15; Luke 16: 19-31; 2Cor 5: 8-10; 1Cor 3: 11-15)
We believe that the original manuscripts of the Old and New Testament comprise the full, word for word, truthful, inerrant Word of God which is the supreme and final authority in doctrine and practice. (Isa 40:8; 2 Tim 3:16-17; Heb 4: 12, 2 Peter 1: 20-21)
We believe in one God eternally existing in three equal persons– Father, Son and Holy Spirit, who have the same nature and attributes but who are distinct in office and activity. (Deut 6:4; Isa 48:16; Jer 10:10; Matt 28:19; John 10:30; Acts 5:3-4; 2Cor 13:14; Heb 1:8)
We believe that as eternal Father, He is the Father of all men in the non-salvation, Creator– creature sense, the Father of the nation Israel, the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the author of salvation, the One who sent the Son, and the disciplinarian of His children. (Exod 4:22; Ps 2:7-9; John 5:37; Acts 17:29; Gal 3:26; Eph 1: 3-6; Heb 12:9; 1 Peter 1:3)
We believe Jesus Christ is God incarnate, conceived by the Holy Spirit born of a virgin, completely God and completely man. We believe in His pre-existence, His sinless life, His substitutionary atonement, His bodily resurrection from the grave, His ascension into heaven, and His bodily return from heaven. (John 1:1,14, 18; Luke 1:35; Rom 3: 24-26; 4:25; 1 Peter 1: 3-5; Eph 4:11-16; 1 Thess 4:13-18; Heb 1:3; 7: 23-25; 1 John 2:1-2)
We believe that the Holy Spirit regenerates, indwells, baptizes, seals, and bestows spiritual gifts upon all believers at the time of their conversion. Experientially, He fills, teaches, leads, assures and prays for believers. (John 14:26; 16: 6-15; Acts 1:5; 2:1-4; 11:1-18; Rom 8:14-16, 26-27; 1Cor 6:19; 12:7-11, 13; Eph 1:13-14; 5:18; 2 Thess 2:1-10; Titus 3:5)
We believe in the church, both universally, as the spiritual body of which Christ is the Head, and in the practices of water baptism of believers and the Lord’s Supper as the ordinances of the local church. (Matt 16:18; Acts 1:5; 11-15; 1Cor 12:13; Eph 1:22-23; 4:11-16; 5:22-33; Col 1:18)