What We Believe
Our Mission
We believe that Christ gave us a clear and powerful mission. Matthew 28:19-20: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
We Are Reformed
We hold to the five Solas of the Protestant Reformation by which God graciously reformed the church in purity of doctrine.
- Sola Scriptura (“Scripture alone”): The Bible alone is our highest authority.
- Sola Fide (“faith alone”): We are saved through faith alone in Jesus Christ.
- Sola Gratia (“grace alone”): We are saved by the grace of God alone.
- Solus Christus (“Christ alone”): Jesus Christ alone is our Lord, Savior, and King.
- Soli Deo Gloria (“to the glory of God alone”): We live for the glory of God alone.
We Are Confessional
We believe that doctrine confesses our theological identity and thus unifies us as Christians under the authority of Scripture. We wholeheartedly agree with C.H. Spurgeon’s statement in his description of the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith for which we subscribe.
“This ancient document is the most excellent epitome of the things most surely believed among us. It is not issued as an authoritative rule or code of faith, whereby you may be fettered, but as a means of edification in righteousness. It is an excellent, though not inspired, expression of the teaching of those Holy Scriptures by which all confessions are to be measured. We hold to the humbling truths of God’s sovereign grace in the salvation of lost sinners. Salvation is through Christ alone and by faith alone.”
We Are Baptist
Our governance is congregational in authority and elder led in practice.
We believe in the believer’s baptism in which the saved, those able to articulate a credible testimony of their conversion, are baptized into the body of Christ, the local church, by full immersion.