Brian Hughes, testimony of salvation and statement of faith.
I was raised a Baptist preacher's son. My parents were and still are faithful servants to God. We went to every church service, church fellowship, revival, etc. Christ and the church was the focal point of my life growing up. I fought it at every turn. When I felt I knew everything there was to know about life and living I left my parents home and forsook my upbringing and the church and even God. I had more than once professed to have been saved but always for the wrong reasons. Those reasons always had something to do with wanting to be accepted by other people; however there was never peace in my heart about my eternal life. I became miserable in my existence and to make that worse, I was lost. But God, on May 5, 2002 in the middle of the night at home in bed convicted me of my sin and I realized I was lost without hope. Being raised in church, I knew I must trust Jesus as my savior and so I did. The cross of Calvary became real and personal to me that night. I have had peace in my heart about eternity since that night, PRAISE GOD!!!
Our statement of faith is as follows
CONCERNING THE SCRIPTURES We believe the verbal, plenary inspiration by God and inerrancy of the Old and New Testaments. They are therefore, the supreme and final authority of all matters in faith and life. The King James bible is what I study, preach, and teach from.
CONCERNING GOD We believe there is one, and only one God, creator, and supreme ruler of the heaven and earth, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent existing in three Persons – God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit – co-equal, co-eternal, and of the same essence in nature, attributes, power, and glory.
CONCERNING JESUS CHRIST We believe that He is the God-Man as is demonstrated by His virgin birth, sinless perfection, vicarious death, bodily resurrection, present continuing mediatorship and personal, premillennial return.
CONCERNING THE HOLY SPIRIT We believe that His work is to convict the sinner and the erring Christian; that He is the agent in regeneration; that He indwells, seals, sanctifies, assures, guides, instructs, and empowers the believer.
CONCERNING SIN AND SALVATION We believe that Adam was created perfect in the image of God, that he sinned and brought physical, spiritual, and eternal death upon himself and on all mankind; that humanity is now totally depraved and incapable of pleasing God apart from divine grace; that all men are sinners and can be saved only by grace through faith apart from works, and when so saved are eternally secured.
CONCERNING THE CHURCH We believe that the church is a local, visible body of immersed believers, covenanted together by a common faith and fellowship of the Gospel, observing the ordinances; that Jesus Christ personally established His chucrh and promised its continuance; that the church is the body of Christ on earth; that every church is to be autonomous.
CONCERNING THE COMMISSION We believe that Jesus Christ commissioned His church to make disciples by evangelization, to baptize by immersion, and to teach all things that He had commanded; that the commission extends to the uttermost parts of the earth; that is the privilege and responsibility of every believer to be a personal soul-winner; that the true churches should work together in contending for the faith and furthering of the Gospel.
CONCERNING THE CHURCH ORDINANCES We believe that there are two; baptism by immersion of the believer in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit under the authority of the local church, and the Lord’s Supper in which members of the church, following a solemn self-examination, commemorate the sacrificial love of Christ by sacred use of unleavened bread and fruit of the vine.
CONCERNING SEPARATION We believe that Christians should separate themselves from practices and influences of the world which hinder a spirit-filled life, and from all forms of ecclesiastical apostasy.
CONCERNING CREATION We believe that the Genesis six-day account of creation is literal; that the creation of man was a direct act of God and was not from previously existing forms of life.
CONCERNING THE SUPERNATURAL SIGN GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT We believe that they were temporary in nature, given for use during the apostolic era, and, thus, are not applicable to the work of the Spirit today.
CONCERNING THE FUTURE We believe in the bodily resurrection of all the dead: the saved to life of eternal glory and bliss in heaven with God; the unsaved to a conscious eternal punishment in the lake of fire; that the order of prophetic events will be:
I was raised a Baptist preacher's son. My parents were and still are faithful servants to God. We went to every church service, church fellowship, revival, etc. Christ and the church was the focal point of my life growing up. I fought it at every turn. When I felt I knew everything there was to know about life and living I left my parents home and forsook my upbringing and the church and even God. I had more than once professed to have been saved but always for the wrong reasons. Those reasons always had something to do with wanting to be accepted by other people; however there was never peace in my heart about my eternal life. I became miserable in my existence and to make that worse, I was lost. But God, on May 5, 2002 in the middle of the night at home in bed convicted me of my sin and I realized I was lost without hope. Being raised in church, I knew I must trust Jesus as my savior and so I did. The cross of Calvary became real and personal to me that night. I have had peace in my heart about eternity since that night, PRAISE GOD!!!
Our statement of faith is as follows
CONCERNING THE SCRIPTURES We believe the verbal, plenary inspiration by God and inerrancy of the Old and New Testaments. They are therefore, the supreme and final authority of all matters in faith and life. The King James bible is what I study, preach, and teach from.
CONCERNING GOD We believe there is one, and only one God, creator, and supreme ruler of the heaven and earth, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent existing in three Persons – God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit – co-equal, co-eternal, and of the same essence in nature, attributes, power, and glory.
CONCERNING JESUS CHRIST We believe that He is the God-Man as is demonstrated by His virgin birth, sinless perfection, vicarious death, bodily resurrection, present continuing mediatorship and personal, premillennial return.
CONCERNING THE HOLY SPIRIT We believe that His work is to convict the sinner and the erring Christian; that He is the agent in regeneration; that He indwells, seals, sanctifies, assures, guides, instructs, and empowers the believer.
CONCERNING SIN AND SALVATION We believe that Adam was created perfect in the image of God, that he sinned and brought physical, spiritual, and eternal death upon himself and on all mankind; that humanity is now totally depraved and incapable of pleasing God apart from divine grace; that all men are sinners and can be saved only by grace through faith apart from works, and when so saved are eternally secured.
CONCERNING THE CHURCH We believe that the church is a local, visible body of immersed believers, covenanted together by a common faith and fellowship of the Gospel, observing the ordinances; that Jesus Christ personally established His chucrh and promised its continuance; that the church is the body of Christ on earth; that every church is to be autonomous.
CONCERNING THE COMMISSION We believe that Jesus Christ commissioned His church to make disciples by evangelization, to baptize by immersion, and to teach all things that He had commanded; that the commission extends to the uttermost parts of the earth; that is the privilege and responsibility of every believer to be a personal soul-winner; that the true churches should work together in contending for the faith and furthering of the Gospel.
CONCERNING THE CHURCH ORDINANCES We believe that there are two; baptism by immersion of the believer in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit under the authority of the local church, and the Lord’s Supper in which members of the church, following a solemn self-examination, commemorate the sacrificial love of Christ by sacred use of unleavened bread and fruit of the vine.
CONCERNING SEPARATION We believe that Christians should separate themselves from practices and influences of the world which hinder a spirit-filled life, and from all forms of ecclesiastical apostasy.
CONCERNING CREATION We believe that the Genesis six-day account of creation is literal; that the creation of man was a direct act of God and was not from previously existing forms of life.
CONCERNING THE SUPERNATURAL SIGN GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT We believe that they were temporary in nature, given for use during the apostolic era, and, thus, are not applicable to the work of the Spirit today.
CONCERNING THE FUTURE We believe in the bodily resurrection of all the dead: the saved to life of eternal glory and bliss in heaven with God; the unsaved to a conscious eternal punishment in the lake of fire; that the order of prophetic events will be:
- The return of Jesus Christ in the clouds to resurrect and rapture the saved.
- The seven year tribulation period.
- The visible return of Jesus Christ to the earth to establish His kingdom for a literal thousand years.
- The resurrection of the unsaved for the great white throne judgment
- The eternal kingdom
