It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
--Lamentations 3:22-23
Statement of Faith
We believe in . . . See our more exhaustive Articles of Faith .

  • the verbal, plenary inspiration of the Scriptures; the personality of God; the personality and work of the Holy Spirit; the personality of the Devil;
  • direct creation as opposed to evolution;
  • the deity and virgin birth of Jesus Christ;
  • the substitutionary atonement for sin; the grace of God in the new creation; justification by faith apart from human merit;
  • faith as the only condition for salvation; the local church;
  • water baptism by immersion;
  • the Lord's Supper;
  • the eternal security of the saints through the precious blood of Christ;
  • the eternal doom of the wicked;
  • the divine appointment of civil government;
  • the resurrection;
  • the personal, premillennial, and visible return of Christ;
  • the pretribulational rapture of the saints;
  • and the restoration of Israel.