What we believe

~God

One True God reveals Himself to the world in three persons: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:19)

~Jesus

Jesus, the Son of God, is our one and only Lord and Savior, crucified for our sins and physically resurrected from the dead on the third day. (John 14:6; Acts 4:12; 1 Corinthians 15)

~Bible

The Bible is the only written message of God inspired by the Holy Spirit and without error. (2 Timothy 3:16,17; 2 Peter 1:19-21)

We are a Bible Church and believe we should “be silent where the Bible speaks, and speak where the Bible is silent.” In applying scriptural principles to build the visible church, we must obey God’s word, but we are free to use our God-given creativity where the Bible does not prohibit a practice or name. (Genesis 2:19; 1 Corinthians 10:23)

~Salvation

A person is saved by the grace of God and the blood of Jesus Christ, and a person must, through faith and obedience, reach out to receive this free gift of salvation. (Ephesians 1:1-10; James 2:14-26)

As with the first Christians, when a person repents and is baptized, their sins are forgiven, and the Holy Spirit works in their life. (Acts 2:36-41; Romans 8:5-11)

~Discipleship

Only baptized disciples are members of Christ’s church. The church is thus composed of sold-out disciples. (1 Corinthians 12:12-13; Matthew 13:44-45; Luke 14:33)

After baptism, every new Christian needs to be taught or “discipled” by another Christian to obey all of Jesus’ teachings. (Matthew 28:20; Luke 6:40)

Every disciple must be committed to the vision of making disciples of all nations. The church is to evangelize the nations in one generation. (Matthew 28:18-20; Colossians 1:23)

~Central Leadership

We believe in Central Leadership. Throughout God’s word, when his people were unified, there was strong central leadership and godly central leader. (Examples: Moses, Joshua, David, and of course Jesus and the Apostles). Local congregations in the New Testament had overseeing evangelists, who unified the disciples “everywhere in every church.” In the first century, congregations were a collective movement- not autonomous, not self-governing. Thus, our congregation willingly is a member of the International Christian Churches (Sold-out Discipling Movement. (Acts 15; 1 Corinthians 4:15-17; Titus 1:5)

5 Core Conviction 

~We are a bible church, not simply a New Testament church

technically speaking, the word “scripture” in this passage refers to only the Old Testament. now, through the inspiration of the spirit, we believe that it applies to the New Testament as well. we believe the Old Testament applies to our lives — as much as the New Testament — except for the mosaic law and any teaching in the New Testament that supersedes the Old Testament. (2 Timothy 3:14–17, 2 Peter 3:15–16, Colossians 2:13–14)

~“Be silent where the bible speaks, and speak where the bible is silent”

in applying scriptural principles to build the visible church, we believe we must obey god’s word, but where the bible does not prohibit a practice or name, we are free to use our God-given creativity. we are free to practice or name something if it does not contradict the scriptures. (Genesis 2:19, 1 Corinthians 10:23)

~Discipling is a command of God and not optional

the dynamic in this relationship begins as a teacher/student relationship and then matures to a more peer/peer relationship. discipling is teaching obedience to scripture as evident in the “one another” passages: “love one another,” “instruct one another,” “confess your sins to each other,” “pray for each other,” etc. (Matthew 28:19–20, Colossians 1:28–29, John 15:15, 2 Timothy 2:1–3)

~A central leadership with a central leader

Throughout god’s word, when his people were unified, there was a strong central leadership and a godly central leader. examples include moses, Joshua, David, and of course Jesus and the apostles. local congregations had an overseeing evangelist who unified the disciples “everywhere in every church.” in the first century, congregations were a collective movement — not autonomous, not self-governing. in the New Testament, Jesus is the leader of “the movement!” when he ascended to heaven, peter took on this responsibility as “the apostle to the Jews.” after Paul became “the apostle to the gentiles,” the leadership transitioned to Jesus’ oldest half-brother James. at the Jerusalem council, James gave his singular authoritative “judgment,” which was then bound on all the churches. (Numbers 27:12–23, Exodus 18:12–26, Judges 21:25, 1 Corinthians 4:15–17, Titus 1:5, Acts 15:19–24, Acts 21:24)

~The dream of the evangelization of the nations in this generation

if disciples evangelized the world in the first century, we could certainly do it again in the twenty-first century! we will accomplish this through every disciple making disciples, and every disciple having discipling relationships. (Matthew 28:19–20, Acts 1:8, Colossians 1:6 & 23, 1 Timothy 2:3–4)