WHAT WE BELIEVE

While our faculty annually affirm their agreement with the full doctrinal statement (below), students need to agree with these essentials:

WE

BELIEVE

  • In the verbal inspiration of the original Scriptures
  • In the absolute trinity of the eternal God-head
  • In the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ
  • In the personality and deity of the Holy Spirit
  • In the reality and personality of the devil
  • In the natural depravity of the human race
  • In the substitutionary atonement
  • In the propitiation for sin only by the blood of Christ
  • In full salvation by grace through faith and not of works
  • In Divine Healing through Atonement and prayer for the sick
  • In the personal Baptism of the Holy Spirit
  • In the necessity of the new birth
  • In water baptism by Immersion at an age of accountability
  • In the true church composed of all blood washed believers
  • In the evangelism of the heathen and the nations of the world
  • In obedience to civil government
  • In divorce only on New Testament Scriptural grounds
  • In church government, loyalty and obedience to those in authority over us in the Lord
  • In the victorious life over sin, self, and bold habits by Bible study and incessant prayer life
  • In restitution for past wrongs whenever possible
  • In the open table at the Lord's Supper
  • In the maintenance of good works and holy living
  • In tithing as God's financial plan
  • In Christ perfection and holiness, through absolute surrender and consecration
  • In Christian modesty in matter of dress and wearing apparel
  • In keeping of the Lord's day as a matter of privilege rather than law
  • As regarding creation, liberty of conscience and a Godly example to the world
  • In the Immortality and conscious existence of the soul
  • In the resurrection of our literal bodies, the just and the unjust
  • In a Literal heaven and life everlasting for all We believers
  • In a final day of judgment for the incorrigible wicked
  • In the everlasting punishment of the impenitent
  • In the personal, literal, bodily pre-millennial coming of Jesus Christ
  • In a future, literal, 1,000 years reign of Christ on earth with all His saints
  • In Christian tolerance to all denominations of Christian faith
  • In essential-Unity; In non-essential-Liberty; In all things-Charity
  • In the judgment seat of Christ where the saints will be finally rewarded for their deeds of commission and omission
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