What We Believe
THE GOSPEL
In the beginning, it pleased God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, for the manifestation of His glory, to create all things in six days. After God made all other creatures, he created man in His own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness. He also gave them a law written on their hearts, and a command not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve, our first parents, willfully transgressed the law and the command given to them. All men now have the guilt of sin, are by nature children of wrath, dead in our trespasses and sins, and do not have communion with God.
It pleased God to choose the Lord Jesus, his only begotten Son, to be the mediator between God and man. This second person in the Holy Trinity, being very and eternal God, the brightness of the Father's glory, of one substance and equal with him who made the world, upholding everything he has made, did, when the fullness of time came, took upon himself man's nature, yet without sin; being conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, so that two perfect and distinct natures were inseparably joined together in one person, this person being very God and very man, yet one Christ, the only mediator between God and man. He was made under the law and perfectly fulfilled it, underwent the punishment due us. He was crucified, died, and remained in the state of the dead for three days, yet saw no corruption. On the third day he arose from the dead, ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of his Father making intercession for us, and he shall return in glory to judge the living and the dead.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved!
Calvinism
We believe in the Reformed doctrines of grace, which exclaim the glory of God in his wonderful and loving sovereignty in saving fallen sinners in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Covenant Theology
We believe that the Holy Scriptures show that the key to understanding God’s redemptive acts is through the covenants He made with various persons for various purposes, ultimately to manifest and consummate the Covenant of Grace under the promised New Covenant which was established by Jesus Christ.
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Called to Holy Worship
We believe that God has revealed how He is to be worshiped in the Holy Scriptures and that we are not to go beyond those means, these including things such as the preaching of the Word, the two sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, and keeping His day holy.
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Called to Holiness
We believe that Christians are called to repent of their sins, to seek forgiveness in Christ, and to seek to live holy lives in the love of God. Christ taught that this is summarized in the Ten Commandments.
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Creedal & Confessional
We believe in the importance of creeds and confessions as guardrails against falsehood, showing what we ought and must believe, and detailing the teachings of Scripture. We hold to the ecumenical creeds (The Apostle's Creed, The Nicene Creed, and The Athanasian Creed) and fully subscribe to the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith. We believe these documents wonderfully summarize the teachings of our ultimate authority, the Word of God.
