We believe the church is the body of Christ of which every believer is made a part by a spiritual baptism upon their receiving Christ as Savior. We believe every member of the body of Christ should gather together with a local church for the purpose of Biblical instruction and mutual ministry (1 Cor. 12:27, Heb. 10:25).
We believe the local church is to be made up solely of those who have been born-again and scripturally baptized. We believe the local church is to be autonomous and free from all external authority. We believe the ordinances of the local church to be water baptism and the Lord's Supper. We believe water baptism to be a public testimony picturing a believer's association with death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ by immersion, and that the Lord's Supper is memorial of the sacrificial death of Christ to be observed by believers. We believe there is absolutely no saving virtue to these ordinances (Rom. 6:1-4, 1 Cor. 11:26).
We believe the local church is to be made up solely of those who have been born-again and scripturally baptized. We believe the local church is to be autonomous and free from all external authority. We believe the ordinances of the local church to be water baptism and the Lord's Supper. We believe water baptism to be a public testimony picturing a believer's association with death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ by immersion, and that the Lord's Supper is memorial of the sacrificial death of Christ to be observed by believers. We believe there is absolutely no saving virtue to these ordinances (Rom. 6:1-4, 1 Cor. 11:26).