What I Believe

Even though this site is only a blog, I felt that it was important to provide my readers with a statement of my faith. While this does not encompass all that we believe, it does cover the basics of our faith. Links to my personal testimony can be found under the heading, "About This Site."

We believe the Holy Bible is a supernatural book, that it is the very Word of God, in sixty-six books, the full, final and complete revelation of God's will to man. We believe the author of the Bible is God the Holy Spirit and that holy men of God wrote as they were supernaturally inspired by the Holy Spirit. We believe that those inspired words have been inerrantly preserved to the English-speaking people in the Authorized Version (commonly called the King James 1611 Version). We believe that the Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and practice
(2 Timothy 3:16-17, Hebrews 4:12, 2 Peter 1:19-21, Psalms 119:89, Isaiah 8:20)

We believe that the Scriptures interpreted in their natural, literal sense reveal divinely determined dispensations or rules of life which define man’s responsibilities in successive ages. These dispensations are divinely ordered stewardships by which God directs man according to His purpose. Three of these dispensations - the law, the church, and the kingdom - are the subjects of detailed revelation in Scripture.
(Ephesians 1:10; 3:2-10, Colossians 1:24-27, 2 Timothy 2:15)

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We believe that there is one, and only one, true and living God. He is absolute in nature, perfect in attributions, holy in character, and is revealed in three Persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) commonly referred to as the Trinity. The three Persons of the Trinity exist in the same divine nature, essence and being. They are co-existent and co-equal and each One has a distinct office in the work of Redemption.
(John 10:30-33; 14:10,26, 1 Corinthians 8:6, 2 Corinthians 13:14, Ephesians 4:6, 1 John 5:7, Deuteronomy 6:4, Psalms 90:2, Isaiah 43:10-11; 44:6)

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We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man without ceasing to be God, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit in a miraculous manner and born of the virgin Mary as no other man was born or can be born of woman. He is both the Son of God and God the Son.
(Matt.1:18-25, Lk.1:35, John 1:1-2,14, Galatians 4:4-5, Isaiah 7:14; 9:6)

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, by the shedding of His divine blood, accomplished our redemption through His death on the cross as a representative, vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice; and that our justification is made sure by his literal, physical resurrection from the dead.
(Roman 3:24-25, 1 Corinthian 15:1-4, Ephesians 1:7, Hebrew 9:22,28; 12:2, 1 Peter 1:3-5; 2:24; 3:18, 1 John 1:7, Isaiah 53:4-12)

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to Heaven, and is now exalted at the right hand of God, where, as our High Priest, He fulfils the ministry of Representative, Intercessor, and Advocate. He is the Messiah for Israel, the Saviour of the world, the ONLY way any man can come to God the Father for forgiveness of sins and everlasting life.
(Acts 1:9-10, Romans 8:34, Ephesians 1:20, Hebrews 7:25; 9:24, 1 John 2:1-2)

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We believe that the Holy Spirit is a person equal with God the Father and God the Son and of the same nature, Who was active in the Creation. He convicts the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment and is the Divine Agent of regeneration. At the instant of New Birth, by means of a supernatural baptism, the Holy Spirit places each Church-Age believer into the body of Christ, (also referred to as “the Bride of Christ”, and “the Church”) and forthwith indwells and seals that believer unto the day of redemption.
We believe the Holy Spirit is our Divine Teacher who guides and directs believers into all truth and helps them to understand and appropriate the Scriptures. The saved are commanded to yield themselves daily to that Divine leadership. In so doing, we are continuously filled with the Spirit.
(John 16:7-11, Romans 8:9,16, 1 Corinthians 12:12-13, Ephesians 1:10, 13-14, 17-18, 22-23; 3:1-6; 5:18, Galatians 3:26-28,
Colossians 1:18,24, John 14:26; 15:26; 16:13, Romans 8:26-27, 1 John 2:20,27)

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We believe that salvation is a free gift of God offered to sinful man. It is the privilege and duty of every sinner to repent and receive as personal Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ, Whose precious blood was shed on Calvary for the forgiveness of our sins. All who voluntarily reject salvation will face eternal separation from God in a literal place of punishment called Hell.
(John 1:12; 3:15-18,36, Roman 5:8; 6:23; 10:1-13, 2 Peter 3:9, Revelation 20:15; 21:8)

We believe that repentance and faith are solemn and required prerequisites for salvation; that they are wrought in the heart by the Holy Spirit acting upon the light of truth in the heart, and as the sinner is deeply convicted of his guiltiness and helplessness he turns in repentance to the Lord Jesus Christ. Surrendering himself wholly and receiving Him as personal Saviour, he is immediately born again. We believe that faith comes by hearing the Word of God, and that man is drawn to God by the love of God toward Him as exhibited through the cross.
(Luke 18:3,5, John 6:44, Acts 3:19, 20:21, Romans 10:17, 2 Corinthians 7:9-10, 1 John 3:16, Hosea 11:4)

We believe that God’s eternal purpose in salvation is to reconcile us to Himself, to preserve the believer forever in Christ, and to conform us to the image of His Son. We believe that all the redeemed, once saved, are kept by God’s power and are thus secure in Christ forever. We believe that it is the privilege of believers to rejoice in the assurance of their salvation by the testimony of God’s Word. This, however, clearly forbids the use of Christian liberty as an occasion to the flesh.
(John 5:24; 6:37-40; 10:27-30, Romans 8:1,38-39; 13:13-14, Galatians 5:13, 2 Timothy 1:12, 1 Peter 1:5)

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We believe that the New Testament commands a local assembling of believers into a public, visible, and organized place of worship and service. Salvation and baptism by immersion are the prerequisites for church membership. We believe that the locally-assembled church is an independent congregation observing the ordinances of Christ, governed by His laws in accordance with Pauline revelation, under the overseeing leadership of its own pastor, and responsible to carry out the Great Commission. It is not governed or controlled by any outside ecclesiastical hierarchy. The will of the local church is final.
(Matthew 28:19-20, Acts 2:41-47; 8:1-4; 11:22; 13:1; 16:5, Romans 16:1-2, 1 Corinthians 16:19, 1 Timothy 3:1-6,15, Hebrews 10:24-25)

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