What We Believe

These are brief statements about what we believe. If you have any questions or comments about them we would be happy to discuss them with you. Simply email us your questions or comments by clicking on the mailbox at the bottom of the page.

God the Father

God exists and has always existed. He is personal and real. He is loving, gracious, and merciful. He is also just and righteous. He is all knowing and has allowed Himself to be known by the human beings He created. He has revealed Himself to human beings through His Creation, His written Word - the Bible, and through His Son, Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ

God has fully and finally revealed and incarnated Himself in His sinless Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the second Person of the Divine Trinity, sharing all the attributes of the Godhead. He died vicariously for sinners and rose again bodily for their justification. He alone is "the way, the truth, and the life" whereby salvation is effected by the grace of God. No one can come to the Father except through Jesus Christ; therefore, we preach "Jesus Christ and Him crucified." Jesus Christ is also the Baptizer with the Holy Spirit.

Holy Spirit

God sent His Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Divine Trinity, into the world. He brings conviction of sin and draws people to Jesus Christ for salvation. He then enters the lives of repentant believers to regenerate and sanctify them.

Subsequent to salvation, believers are to be filled with the Holy Spirit to empower them to be witnesses of Jesus Christ. This filling occurs when the believer is baptized by Jesus Christ with the Holy Spirit. The initial evidence of having been baptized with the Holy Spirit is the believer's speaking in other tongues as the Holy Spirit enables them.

The purpose of this baptism in the Holy Spirit is for the enduement of power to bear credible witness about Jesus Christ both behaviorally and verbally.

Bible

God has spoken finally, authoritatively, and clearly in the totally inspired, fully truthful Bible, the Word of God. The Scriptures, consisting of the infallible and inerrant Old and New Testaments, alone are the final foundation and standard for all theology, doctrine, and Christian experience. The Bible is the source of our message and the final authority for all our military ministry.

Salvation

Salvation is obtained through faith in Jesus Christ and His sinless life, death, burial, and resurrection. It is only through a personal, ongoing, relationship with Jesus Christ that a person can experience the forgiveness of sins and the abundant life Jesus promised. The act of receiving Jesus Christ into ones life is the beginning of that abundant life and is referred to in the Bible as being born again; as part of this salvation we also receive eternal life. 

Those who receive Jesus Christ as their savior and lord will go to heaven when they die. Those who do not believe and receive Jesus Christ into their lives will go to hell when they die. 

The decision to receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord is a personal one and must be individually made by every individual. Being born into a 'Christian' family, being baptized either as an infant or as an adult, or being raised in a particular church does not mean a person has received salvation.

Water Baptism

Water baptism is the outward act of public identification with Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. It is the outward testimony of the change that has taken place inside a person’s heart as a result of believing in Jesus Christ. The act of water baptism does not save a person or make them a Christian; it is an act of obedience to Jesus Christ and should be performed as soon following the acceptance of Jesus Christ as Savior as possible.

Spirit Baptism

Being baptized in the Holy Spirit is the divine impartation of power from God to be a credible witness for Jesus Christ. Christians, when confronted with opportunities to witness for Jesus Christ, don’t because of fear or timidity. The baptism in the Holy Spirit gives a person divine power (boldness) to witness, a spirit inspired prayer language, and the ability to function in the realm of the spiritual gifts as the Holy Spirit confirms their witness for Jesus Christ with signs and wonders.

Prayer

It is God's will that the work of evangelism be accomplished with His power. God, therefore, expects us to practice and promote earnest personal and corporate prayer for Spirit-filled living and for a spiritual harvest of the lost.

Spiritual Gifts

The Holy Spirit has endowed the church of Jesus Christ with spiritual gifts. These gifts are: the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, faith, gifts of healing, working of miracles, prophecy, distinguishing of spirits, the gift of tongues, and the interpretation of tongues. These gifts are bestowed on individual believers as the Holy Spirit chooses; these gifts are evident in the church today and vital to its health; they are not the same as the initial evidence of the baptism in the Holy Spirit.

Second Coming of Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ is physically returning to this earth! His return consists of several significant events: the resurrection of the bodies of those who died as believers in Jesus Christ and the catching away of those resurrected bodies and the bodies of those believers who are still alive on the earth at that time. Both groups will receive new, eternal, bodies as they meet Jesus in the air; and the souls of those who were dead will be reunited with their new bodies. All will then return to earth with Him to establish His millennial kingdom on earth for one thousand years.

Eternity

Each person will stand before Jesus Christ at the great white throne judgment. Those whose names are found written in the Lamb's Book of Life as a result of having accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior during their live time will live eternally in God's presence as His redeemed, resurrected people. Those whose names are not found written in the Lamb's Book of Life because they had rejected Jesus Christ will spend eternity separated from God in the place the Bible calls the Lake of Fire. Therefore, to evangelize is essential for the eternal well-being of all people.