Church Covenant

"Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved." Acts 2:47 (KJV)

Church Covenant

Having been led, as we believe by the Spirit of God, to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior and, on the profession of our faith, having been baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, we do now, in the presence of God and this assembly, most solemnly and joyfully enter into covenant with one another as one body in Christ.

We endeavor, therefore, by the aid of the Holy Spirit to walk together in Christian love, to strive for the advancement of this church, in knowledge, holiness and comfort; to promote its prosperity and spirituality; to sustain its worship, ordinances, discipline and doctrines; to contribute cheerfully and regularly to the support of the ministry, the expenses of the church, the relief of the poor, and the spread of the gospel through all nations.

We also endeavor to encourage family and individual devotions; to religiously educate our children; to seek the salvation of our kindred and acquaintances; to walk circumspectly in the world; to be just in our dealings, faithful in our engagements and to avoid gossip, backbiting and excessive anger; to be zealous in our efforts to advance the kingdom of our Savior.

We further endeavor to watch over one another in brotherly love; to remember one another in prayer; to aid one another in sickness and distress; to cultivate Christian sympathy in feeling and Christian courtesy in speech; to be slow to take offense, but always ready for reconciliation and mindful of the rules of our Savior to secure it without delay.

Church Purpose

The purpose of this local church is the salvation of the lost souls and edification of the Christians through the teaching of God's Word, the encouragement of members to do the work of the ministry, the worldwide proclamation of God's saving grace through the shed blood and finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary, the promotion of godly worship, the defense of the faith once delivered unto the saints (Jude 3), and cooperation with Christian activities functioning in harmony with God's Holy Word, until Jesus comes for His church. It is the intent of this church to function freely as a missionary, evangelistic, pre-millennial independent Baptist church, recognizing no ecclesiastical authority higher than the local assembly. We have taken a stand against all worldly philosophies that seek to destroy true Christianity.

The Authorized King James Version is our primary choice of Bible translation.

Doctrinal Statement

We believe in the Holy Scripture, accepting fully the writings of the Old and New Testaments as the very Word of God, inspired in all parts in its original autographs, our infallible and authoritative rule of faith and practice.

We believe there is one God eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

We believe in the deity of Christ; His virgin birth; His shed blood for atonement; His bodily resurrection; His ascension into Heaven there to be our Intercessor; his lordship over all creation.

We believe that the Holy Spirit convicts of sin, makes the believer a child of God through the new birth, assures them of Heaven, and by His indwelling enables Christians to live a godly life.

We believe that all men are sinners by nature and choice, sinful and lost, and have within themselves no possible means of salvation with Christ.

We believe in salvation by grace through faith; that salvation is the free gift of God, not by any virtue or works of man, but received only by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; and all true believers possess the gift of eternal life, a perfect righteousness, son-ship in the family of God, and the divine guarantee that they shall never perish.

We believe in the existence of Satan, the deceiver and god of this present world; that he was defeated at the resurrection, and therefore his final doom is certain.

We believe in the Rapture of the Church; the time being unrevealed but always imminent; that when He comes He will first by resurrection of the dead and translation of the living remove from the earth His waiting church; then pour out the righteous judgments of God upon the unbelieving world, afterwards descend with His church and establish His glorious and literal kingdom over all the nations for a thousand years.

(We believe that the spirits of the saved at death go immediately to be with Christ in Heaven; that at His second coming their works will be judged and rewards determined; that the spirits of the unsaved at death descend immediately into Hell until the final day of judgment, at which time their bodies shall be raised from the grave, judged, and cast into the lake of fire, the place of final and everlasting punishment.)

We believe in the priesthood of all believers, that Christ is our Great High Priest and through Him every born-again person has direct access into God's presence without the need of a human priest; that the believer had the right and responsibility personally to study and interpret the Scriptures guided by the Holy Spirit.

We believe in the priesthood of all believers, that Christ is our Great High Priest and through Him every born-again person has direct access into God's presence without the need of a human priest; that the believer has the right and responsibility personally to study and interpret the Scriptures guided by the Holy Spirit.

We believe that a New Testament church is an organized body of born-again baptized believers practicing scriptural ordinances and actively engaged in fulfilling the Great Commission.

We believe in the separation of church and state; that God has ordained both, and has delegated authority to each; the authority of one must not interfere with the other; however, this does not mean that the state is to be non-religious nor does it mean that the church and its members may not be involved in the political process of this nation.

We believe the offices of the church are Pastors and Deacons. In Scripture the Pastor is also referred to as an Elder. The two terms describe the same office.

We believe the two scriptural ordinances given to the local church are baptism and immersion of believers only, and the Lord's Supper to be partaken of by obedient Christians.