What We Teach
Foundation
Our foundation is the Bible. Rightly teaching it is paramount. There is no substitute for truth. We do not adhere to any confession or creed.
Leadership
Male elders have the responsibility and authority to lead this church, with Christ as the Chief-Shepherd over His Church universal.
Members
Members are to be teachable and must use their giftedness to serve this church.
Deacons
Deacons must be honest and diligent servants; they may be men or women (1 Timothy 3:11).
Baptism
Baptism is for believers. There is no state between an unbeliever and a believer; so, baptism does nothing for a baby or young child.
Salvation
We are Calvinistic, which means we give God exclusive credit for our salvation. God elects; so, we teach God’s Election, not the glory-robbing error of His reaction to our self-election.
Cessation
Miraculous gifts have ceased. John records Jesus’ miracles in Israel as “signs” that he was the Messiah and the Son of God. If miracles happened in the U.S. today, they would be “signs” of nothing more than their existence.
Pre-Millienial
Christ will return and set up a 1,000-year earthly Kingdom. To miss this is to miss huge parts of who the Messiah is, who Israel is, who the Church is, what the world is, and what all four are heading toward.
Counseling
Scripture is our authority and basis, not Psychology.
Gospel
We reject current notions of Social Justice & Wokeness. These are merely the Liberalism of the early 20th Century remodeled for our day.
Creation
We affirm the Bible’s account of a literal 6-day Creation. And we have no admiration for those professed Christians who begin their retreat from biblical truth at the very beginning of the Bible. They should not refer to themselves as “people of the Book.”
Marriage
God created, says the Bible, two genders: male and female. No denial or intentional misrepresentation of them is acceptable in the Lord’s Church. Marriage and intimacy are for someone born male and someone born female.
Lordship
A true believer is one who follows Jesus as his or her Lord. Jesus cannot be divided. He is Savior and Lord. He cannot be Savior without being Lord. (This is not a denial of the Christian’s sanctification.)
What it means to be a Christian
(modified from a tract by the same name)
“Being a Christian is more than identifying yourself with a particular religion or affirming a certain value system. Being a Christian means you have embraced what the Bible says about God, mankind, and salvation. Consider the following truths….”
God is Creator and Owner of all: Mankind has, in the last century and a half, tried to pretend science has eliminated God as Creator; for if there is no Creator – God does not exist and there is, therefore, no judge for sin. The Bible affirms not only the existence of the Creator but Jesus as the Creator, “For by Him [Jesus] all things were created….” So, Jesus is Lord of all.
God is holy: “He cannot commit or approve of evil. God requires holiness of us as well. 1 Peter 1: 16, ‘You shall be holy, for I am holy.’”
Mankind is sinful: While men are capable of doing good, like doing acts of kindness, all of us are “utterly incapable of understanding, loving, or pleasing God on our own (Romans 3: 10-12).”
Sin demands a penalty: “God’s holiness and justice demand that all sin be punished by death.”
Jesus is Lord and Savior: “Romans 10:9 says, ‘If you confess with you mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.’”
John the Baptist introduced Jesus as the [sacrificial] Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29).
True faith is saving faith: “True faith is always accompanied by repentance from sin. Repentance is agreeing with God that you are sinful, confessing your sins to Him, and making a conscious choice to turn from sin (Luke 13: 3,5; 1 Thessalonians 1:9), [and to pursue Christ as Lord in obedience]. It isn’t enough to believe with your head certain facts about Christ. Even Satan and his demons believe in the true God…, but they don’t love and obey Him. True saving faith always responds in obedience (Ephesians 2:10).”