The Church
We believe the church is made up of scripturally born-again, scripturally baptized believers in Christ Jesus. Further, the church is manifest at this time in local, called out assemblies of these believers and these assemblies are independent, self-governing, self-supporting, and self-propogating pictures of the body of Christ. The vocation of the church is to worship God and glorify the body of Christ. The vocation of the church is to worship God and glorify Him on the earth, evangelize the world with the Gospel of Christ, develop each Christian to spiritual maturity, to be a constant witness for Christ and His Word and to bring glory to God; that there are only two church ordinances which are baptism by immersion for believers and the Lord’s supper. The church recognizes only two church offices those being pastor and deacon. While the deacons bear a respected office of responsibility, the pastor is the only church office to individually carry biblical authority and administrated God’s Holy Church on earth. The strongest proof of this is that the New Testament epistles were written to local church bodies and individual pastors. (Matthew 16:16-18; 28:19-20, Acts 2:42; 8:35-37, 1 Corinthians 11:20-34; 12:12-14, 2 Corinthians 11:2, Ephesians 1:4-6; 22-23; 5:25-27; 4:11-15, Revelation 21:9-27)
We believe the church is made up of scripturally born-again, scripturally baptized believers in Christ Jesus. Further, the church is manifest at this time in local, called out assemblies of these believers and these assemblies are independent, self-governing, self-supporting, and self-propogating pictures of the body of Christ. The vocation of the church is to worship God and glorify the body of Christ. The vocation of the church is to worship God and glorify Him on the earth, evangelize the world with the Gospel of Christ, develop each Christian to spiritual maturity, to be a constant witness for Christ and His Word and to bring glory to God; that there are only two church ordinances which are baptism by immersion for believers and the Lord’s supper. The church recognizes only two church offices those being pastor and deacon. While the deacons bear a respected office of responsibility, the pastor is the only church office to individually carry biblical authority and administrated God’s Holy Church on earth. The strongest proof of this is that the New Testament epistles were written to local church bodies and individual pastors. (Matthew 16:16-18; 28:19-20, Acts 2:42; 8:35-37, 1 Corinthians 11:20-34; 12:12-14, 2 Corinthians 11:2, Ephesians 1:4-6; 22-23; 5:25-27; 4:11-15, Revelation 21:9-27)