Tim Stoker LEAD PASTOR
ed champagne ELDER/COUNCIL MEMBER
Ron Fields ELDER/COUNCIL MEMBER
Johnney Whiteaker ELDER/COUNCIL MEMBER
beliefs
- The Scriptures are inspired by God and reveal his plan for humanity.
- There is only one true God eternally existing as one essence and three distinct persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
- Jesus Christ is fully God and was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, died on a cross, and resurrected from the dead.
- God created humanity good, but we chose disobedience. Sin resulted in the fracturing of all things and introduced both physical and spiritual death into the world.
- Everyone can have restored relationship with God through salvation by grace through faith in Christ as our Lord and Savior.
- There are two ordinances of the church, communion and water baptism. Communion is done as a memorial and symbolizes the breaking of the body and the shedding of the blood of Christ. The Bible commands us to follow the example of Jesus and be immersed in water. It symbolizes that we have died with Christ and have been raised with him to new life.
- The baptism of the Holy Spirit empowers believers to share the good news of Jesus. The initial physical evidence of the baptism in the Holy Spirit is speaking in tongues, as experienced on the Day of Pentecost and referenced throughout Acts and the Epistles.
- Sanctification begins at salvation and is a progressive lifelong process of repenting of sin and continually becoming more like Jesus.
- The church is the body of Christ and consists of those who have received God's forgiveness of sin by the death of His son Jesus. The mission of the church is to glorify God and make disciples of Christ.
- God calls and appoints leaders to serve the church. The Bible teaches that followers of Christ are to submit to church leadership, make disciples, worship together, build up and edify one another, and meet each other's needs with love and compassion.
- Those who have died in Christ will be resurrected when Jesus returns to gather up the church. All believers who have died will rise from their graves and be caught up to meet the Lord in the air along with the believers who are alive at the time of Christ's return.
- Jesus will reign when he returns with his church and establishes his rule over the earth for 1,000 years. This reign will bring the salvation of national Israel and establish universal peace.
- There will be a final judgment in which the dead will be resurrected and judged. Everyone whose name is not in the Book of Life, will be separated for eternity in hell. Those whose names are written in the Book of Life will be rewarded and spend eternity with other followers of Christ in heaven.
- There will be a new heaven and earth following the millennial reign of Christ. Those who belong to Jesus will live with him there forever.