BELIEFSVALUES

Values

Eternal Focus

We focus on what lasts for eternity – God’s Word and people. We believe that a life dedicated to bringing the eternal principles of God’s Word to the people He dearly loves is a life well spent.

Loving Leadership

Love is God’s central message and, therefore, must be the motivation for all of life and ministry. Ministry that is motivated by love will include speaking the truth in love, acting in love, and leading from love.

Practical Biblical Strategies

The Bible is practical. Everyone is looking for practical strategies to meet life and ministry challenges, and these can readily be found in God’s Word.

Transparency

A commitment to transparency glorifies God and results in ministry credibility. Therefore, we remain steadfast in our pledge to transparency in all ministry and relationships. This includes remaining above reproach in all of our financial dealings.

Global Perspective

God’s Word was given to ALL NATIONS, and we desire to help our brothers and sisters in Christ around the world with practical tools for life and ministry.

Foundational Beliefs

There is one God, who is infinitely perfect, existing eternally in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He died upon the cross, the Just for the unjust, as a substitutionary sacrifice, and all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood. He arose from the dead and is now at the right hand of Majesty on high as our great High Priest. He will come again to establish His kingdom, righteousness, and peace.

The Holy Spirit is a divine person, sent to indwell, guide, teach, empower the believer, and convince the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment.

The Old and New Testaments, inerrant as originally given, are inspired by God and are a complete revelation of His will for the salvation of men. They constitute the divine and only rule of Christian faith and practice.

Man was originally created in the image and likeness of God; he fell through disobedience, incurring both physical and spiritual death. All men are born with a sinful nature, are separated from the life of God, and can be saved only through the atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ. The portion of the unrepentant and unbelieving is existence forever in conscious torment; and that of the believer, in everlasting joy and bliss.

Salvation has been provided through Jesus Christ for all men; and those who repent and believe in Him are born again of the Holy Spirit, receive the gift of eternal life, and become the children of God.

It is the will of God that each believer be filled with the Holy Spirit and wholly sanctified, separated from sin and the world and fully dedicated to the will of God, thereby receiving power for holy living and effective service.

The Church consists of all those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, are redeemed through His blood, and are born again of the Holy Spirit. Christ is the Head of the Body, the Church, which has been commissioned by Him to go into the entire world as a witness, preaching the gospel to all nations. The local church is a body of believers in Christ who are joined together for the worship of God, for edification through the Word of God, for prayer, fellowship, the proclamation of the gospel, and observance of the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.

There shall be a bodily resurrection of the just and of the unjust; for the former, a resurrection unto life; for the latter, a resurrection unto judgment.

The second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ is imminent. This is the believer’s blessed hope, a vital truth that is an incentive to holy living and faithful service.

This statement of faith does not capture the entirety of our beliefs. Ultimately, it is the Bible itself, as the inspired and infallible Word of God, that must speak with final authority concerning truth, morality, and the proper conduct of our ministry leaders, and it is the sole and final source of all that we believe.