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What We Believe
We believe the Bible is the written word of God, inspired by the Holy Spirit and without error in the original manuscripts. The Bible is the revelation of God’s truth and is infallible and authoritative in all matters of faith and practice. We believe in the Holy Trinity. There is one God, who exists eternally in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We believe that all are sinners and totally unable to save themselves from God’s displeasure, except by His mercy. We believe that salvation is by God alone as He sovereignly chooses those He will save. We believe His choice is based on His grace, not on any human individual merit, or foreseen faith. We believe that Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, who through His perfect life and sacrificial death atoned for the sins of all who will trust in Him, alone, for salvation. We believe that God is gracious and faithful to His people not simply as individuals but as families in successive generations according to His Covenant promises. We believe that the Holy Spirit indwells God’s people and gives them the strength and wisdom to trust Christ and follow Him. We believe that Jesus will return, bodily and visibly, to judge all mankind and to receive His people to Himself. We believe that all aspects of our lives are to be lived to the glory of God under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
It is impossible for us to provide an exhaustive presentation of our belief system In the limited space available here. If you'd like to have more detailed information about what we believe, please feel free to contact us directly at (336) 629-9859 or email us.
Quoted
" In our eagerness to live, we sometimes forget that first we must die. To become Christians, we die with Christ, one time. We accept his death as the punishment our sins deserve. Most of us understand that. But to grow as Christians, we must die to the flesh, repeatedly, daily, until we’re home. At different times, the Spirit takes us through special seasons of accelerated dying, when the pain is especially acute. Following the lead of St. John of the Cross, we aptly call these seasons “dark nights of the soul”. Its that death to ourselves that we’re more likely to forget or trivialize. But when we do, when we think about it only a little or assume it means nothing more than staying out of pornography shops or cutting back on gossip, we lost the power to connect. Both deaths, Christ’s death for our sin and our death to our sin, are difficult, Christ’s immeasurably more so because He suffered absolute isolation from God so we would never have to…Our death to the flesh is entirely different. We die a death that grace enables, a death that disconnects us only from what is bad in or to connect us with everything good. "