Our Beliefs

What we believe and teach, based on the final authority of the Holy Scriptures.

In Summary

In summary, our church's doctrine is founded on the belief that the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the verbally inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God, perfectly preserved in the King James Version, which serves as our final authority for faith and life. We believe in one Triune God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We affirm that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man and accomplished our redemption through His death on the cross, and that the Holy Spirit is a divine person who convicts the world of sin and guides believers.

We believe that all people are fallen, sinful creatures who are forever lost unless they receive Jesus Christ as their Saviour. Salvation is a gift of God by grace, not works, and we believe that all who are redeemed are kept eternally by God's power.

The Christian life involves personal separation from sin and fulfilling the Great Commission by witnessing to the lost. We believe the local church is an autonomous body of saved individuals, holding to historical Baptist distinctives such as baptism by immersion after salvation, the priesthood of all believers, and the separation of church and state. As part of our commitment to these truths, we explicitly reject Charismatic, Calvinistic, and Modernist doctrines.

Finally, we believe in the personal, imminent, pre-tribulation Second Coming of Christ for His saints. This is followed by His Second Advent to earth and the bodily resurrection of all men—the saved to eternal life and the lost to conscious, eternal misery.

For a more detailed explanation of our beliefs, please refer to the below.

Detailed Statement of Faith

  1. The purpose of the church is for the exaltation and glory of God through:
    1. The proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the lost; and
    2. The instruction and edification of believers in the whole counsel of the word of God.
  2. This church should also endeavour to maintain a thoroughly diligent balance between the instruction, defence and propagation of the faith of Bible Christianity.

  1. We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old Testament and New Testament to be the verbally, plenary and inspired word of God, the final authority for faith and life, inerrant, infallible and preserved in the King James Version (II Timothy 3:16-17; II Peter 1:20-21; Psalm 12:6-7).

  1. We believe in the one Triune God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit – co-eternal in being and having the same attributes and perfections (Deuteronomy 6:4; II Corinthians 13:14; I John 5:7).
  2. The Person and work of Christ:
    1. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man without ceasing to be God... (John 1:1-2; Luke 1:35).
    2. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through His death on the cross... (Romans 3:24-25; I Peter 2:24; Ephesians 1:7; I Peter 1:3-5).
  3. The Person and work of the Holy Spirit (the third person of the Godhead).
    1. We believe that the Holy Spirit is a person who both convicts and reproves the world of sin... (John 16:8-11; II Corinthians 3:6; 1 Corinthians 12:12-14; Romans 8:9; Ephesians 1:13-14, 4:30).
    2. We believe that He is the Divine Teacher who guides believers into all truth... (John 16:13; Ephesians 5:18).

  1. Every member of the human race is a fallen, sinful creature... (Romans 5:12) and also his own willing choice... (Romans 3:23).
  2. Every man is forever lost and separated from God unless he receives Jesus Christ as his Saviour...
  3. When man trusts Christ as his Saviour, he is sealed unto the Day of Redemption (John 3:7; Romans 8:9, 16; I Corinthians 6:19; Ephesians 1:13-14; Titus 3:5).

  1. We believe that salvation is the gift of God brought to man by grace... (Ephesians 2:8-9; John 1:12; I Peter 1:18-19).
  2. By receiving Christ as Saviour, a man receives the righteousness of God... (Romans 3:21-22; Romans 4:5-6).
    1. We believe that all the redeemed, once saved, are kept by God’s power... (John 6:37-40, 10:27-30; Romans 8:1, 38, 40; I Corinthians 1:4-8).
    2. We believe that it is the privilege of believers to rejoice in the assurance of their salvation... (Romans 13:13-14; Galatians 5:13; Titus 2:11-15; Hebrews 3:12-13, 6:9).
  3. We believe that every saved person possesses two natures... (Romans 6:13, 8:12-13; Ephesians 4:22-24; Colossians 3:10; I John 3:5-10).

  1. We believe that all saved should live in such a manner as to to not bring reproach upon their Saviour... (II Timothy 3:1-5; I John 2:15-17; II Corinthians 6:14-7:1).
  2. As a Bible Believing church, this church stands for the separation between church and state...

  1. We believe that it is the obligation of the saved to witness by life and word... (Mark 16:15; Acts 1:8; II Corinthians 5:19-20; Matthew 28:19-20).

  1. We do believe that God gave and does give gifts unto men... (I Corinthians 12:4-11, 13:8-10; II Corinthians 12:12; Ephesians 4:7-12).

  1. We believe the Church is represented with two particular distinctions: Invisible (Universal) and Visible (Local)...
  2. We believe the Invisible (Universal) Church is the one to which every believer worldwide is placed into at Salvation.
  3. We believe the Visible (Local) Church is made up of those saved individuals... (Matthew 28:18-19; Acts 2:41,47).

We therefore do not believe that you have to belong to a Baptist Church that ignorantly and erroneously claims to be able to trace back their succession to John the Baptist to be part of the Bride of Christ. We believe that if you are saved, you are part of His Bride.

  1. We believe that the establishment and continuation of local independent Bible believing churches... (Acts 14:27, 20:28-32; I Timothy 3:1-13).
  2. We, as an independent, Bible Believing church, hold to the historical Baptist distinctives...
  3. We believe that the KJV 1611 is the word of God... When we say we believe the KJV 1611 is the Bible we mean it!
  4. We believe in baptism by immersion of all believers after the new birth.
  5. We believe in the Headship and Lordship of Christ (Ephesians 1:22-23).
  6. We believe in the priesthood of believers (I Peter 2:5, 9).
  7. We believe in the complete autonomy of the local church...
  8. We reject all Charismatic, Calvinistic, Modernist, or other heretical doctrines.

  1. (Second Coming) We believe in the personal, imminent, pre-tribulation, pre-wrath coming...
  2. (Second Advent) Then, at the close of the tribulation... (I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Zechariah 14:4-11; Revelation 19:11-16, 20:1-6).

  1. We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men... (Matthew 25:46; John 5:28-29, 11:25-26; Revelation 20:5-6, 12-13).
  2. We believe that the souls of the redeemed are (at death) absent from the body... (Luke 23:43; Revelation 20:4-6; Philippians 1:23, 3:21; I Thessalonians 4:16-17).
  3. We believe that the souls of the unregenerate remain, after death in conscious misery... (Luke 16:19-26; Matthew 25:41-46; II Thessalonians 1:7-9; Jude 6-7; Revelation 20:11-15)