Mission Statement
My mission, as a disciple of Jesus Christ, is to use the tools and training God has provided for me to "go into all the world", whether by internet or physical presence, and minister the Gospel of peace, healing, and salvation through Jesus Christ to all whom He places within my influence.
Statement of Faith
The Holy Scriptures
I believe the Holy Bible is the infallible, inerrant Word of the living God; verbally inspired by God and the complete and sufficient revelation of His will for man’s salvation and conduct.
The Eternal Godhead
I believe there is one true living God who was and is and is to come. He is infinitely holy, mighty, tender, loving and glorious; worthy of all love and honor, confidence and obedience, majesty, dominion and might, both now and forever. In the unity of the Godhead there are three divinely equal but distinct persons in executing the great work of redemption:
- The Father
, whose glory is so exceedingly bright that mortal man cannot look upon His face and live, but whose heart is so filled with love for His lost and sin-benighted children that He freely gave His only begotten Son to redeem and reconcile them unto Himself.
- The Son
, Jesus the Christ, is true God and true man, having been conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He lived a sinless life and died on the cross as the sacrifice for our sins according to the Scriptures. Further, He arose bodily from the dead and ascended into heaven.
- The Holy Spirit
, the third person of the Godhead, the Spirit of the Father shed abroad, omnipotent, omnipresent, performing an inexpressibly important mission upon earth, convicting of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment, drawing sinners to the Savior, rebuking, pleading, searching, comforting, guiding, quickening, teaching, glorifying, and baptizing with poIr from on high those who yield to His ministrations.
The Plan of Redemption
I believe man was originally created in the image of God, but through disobedience he incurred both physical and spiritual death; that we are all born with a sinful nature, separated from God. I believe that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us, the Just for the unjust; freely taking the sinner's place, bearing our sins, receiving our condemnation, dying our death, fully paying our penalty, and signing with His life's blood the pardon for all who would believe upon Him.
Salvation through Grace
I believe that we are saved only through the atoning work of Jesus Christ. Salvation is wholly through grace alone; we have no righteousness or goodness of our own, and must come, throwing ourselves upon the unfailing mercy and love of Him who bought us and washed us in His own blood; pleading the merits and the righteousness of Christ the Savior; standing upon His Word and accepting the free gift of love and pardon.
The Second Coming of Christ
I believe that the second coming of Christ is imminent and is both personal and visible. He will descend from Heaven in the clouds of glory with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God; and at that hour, the dead in Christ shall rise, then the redeemed who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and they shall ever be with the Lord. This is our blessed hope and serves as an incentive for holy living and faithful service.
The Judgment
I believe that the dead, both small and great, shall be raised up and stand with the living before the judgment seat of God; and then a solemn and awful separation shall take place wherein the wicked shall be adjudged to everlasting punishment and the righteous to everlasting life; and this judgment will fix forever the final state of men in heaven or in hell on principles of righteousness as set forth in God's holy Word. |