A Brief Summation of Our Faith

Our audio messages, articles and videos will, of course, attempt to show who we are, what we believe and why we believe it in greater depth. Because we treasure Christ and His church we wish others to treasure them as well. This is simply an abbreviated reference. The first six of these truths are absolute Christian essentials and serve as division where division is Godly.

We affirm the Nicene Creed, The Belgic Confession, The Westminster Confession, The Heidelberg Catechism, The London Baptist Confession, The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy and Together for the Gospel to name a few great historical references.

1. We affirm that the Holy Bible is perfect; God wrote it.

2. We affirm the physical, literal, historical Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

3. We affirm that salvation is by grace through faith alone and not by any works.

4. We affirm that God is triune. In the nature of the only one true and living God there are three equal Persons. The Father is God, the Son is God and the Holy Spirit is God. The Christian God is one Holy Trinity.

5. We affirm Jesus’ virgin birth.

6. We affirm that Jesus was sinless in thought, word and deed.

7. We affirm that Jesus is the only way to heaven because all men are     dead, even by the Ten Commandments alone, in trespasses and sins.

8. We affirm that the Bible requires a person simply to have a right faith     in the right God. The Christian church’s depth of doctrinal specificity is     required by the unending disputations of her antagonists.

9. We affirm the 66 books of the Christian canon.

10. We affirm the scriptures as the only authoritative absolute truth.

11. We deny evolution on any macro level.

12. We deny tongues as a private prayer language and affirm this intelligible language       gift in one Biblical context alone – a sign for unbelievers.

13. We deny that the Holy Ghost gets any Christian drunk in His Spirit.

14. We affirm that all forms of sexual immorality to include       fornication, sodomy, lesbianism, pornography, pedophilia and bestiality are sin.

15. We affirm that God is the omnipotent sovereign over all things and that the world       exists exactly as He ordained.

16. We deny the health, wealth and prosperity gospel.

17. We affirm the existence of one universal worldwide church of Jesus Christ.

18. We affirm the literal six day creation of earth placing its age within thousands of       years.

19. We affirm the responsibility of every Christian to share the Gospel.

20. We deny non-Lordship salvation.

21. We affirm the existence of eternal hell and eternal heaven.

22. We affirm the blessedness of church discipline.

23. We affirm God’s Biblical order in ordaining only men to pastoral positions.

24. We affirm the rapture of the church and Christ’s imminent return in glory.

25. We affirm that the canon of scripture is closed.

26. We deny that salvation is surely imputed when a person simply “prays a prayer.”       Human decision is not a sure confirmation of salvation.

27. We deny that Mary, the earthly mother of Jesus, was sinless.

28. We deny that men, even Christians, are little gods.

29. We affirm all five points of Calvinism.

30. We affirm the existence of a literal Satan, a fallen angel.

31. We deny that truth is relative.

32. We affirm the existence of absolute truth.

33. We affirm that repentance and faith are necessary components for salvation.

34. We deny abortion as a choice or right.

35. We affirm that God is omniscient.

36. We affirm the doctrine of original sin.

37. We affirm all five solas of the Protestant Reformation.

38. We affirm that salvation is something knowable and evident.

39. We deny that doctrinal specificity is the enemy of a simple faith.