There are five words that fairly set forth who we are as a church.  Those five words are:

BAPTIST
FUNDAMENTAL
PREMILLENNIAL
MISSIONARY
INDEPENDENT

WE ARE BAPTIST

By this we mean that we hold to the historic beliefs and practices which have prevailed among Baptists from the time of Jesus.  In every period of time, since Christ established His Church during His earthly ministry, there have been churches who were Baptists in faith and practice.  They did not always wear the name Baptist, but they believed and practiced Baptist doctrine, which is none other than Bible doctrine.

Baptists did not come out of the Reformation under Martin Luther, for they were never a part of the Catholic church.  In fact Baptists were on the scene long before the Catholic church ever came into existence.

We do not believe in a so-called "universal invisible church."  We believe that Jesus established a local, visible church, and we are sure that this is the only kind of true church that is in existence today.

WE ARE FUNDAMENTAL

By this we mean, that we accept the so-called fundamentals of the faith, as opposed to Modernism which denies the fundamentals of the faith.  We believe in the verbal inspiration of the Scriptures, the Genesis account of creation, the Virgin Birth of Christ, His sinless life, His blood atonement, His glorious bodily resurrection, His ascension and His second coming.

When we say that we are fundamental, we do not mean that this is all that we believe; because we do believe every doctrine and truth in the Word of God without any reservation.  No church or Christian has any right to single out any doctrine of the Word of God and say that it is non-essential.

Being fundamental means we are separate from Neo-evangelicalism which compromises the underlying principles of the Christian faith.   It means we are separate from the Ecumenical Movement which attempts to unite the different faiths of the world contrary to the teaching of Scripture.  We have no part in the Charismatic/tongue Movement which emphasizes the "sign gifts" given to the early church and the ministry of the Holy Spirit in an unbiblical manner.

WE ARE PREMILLENNIAL

We believe that Jesus Christ is coming back before the Millennial Kingdom is established.  Under the government of man, the world is growing worse and worse morally.  This is a fulfillment of the Scriptures which says, "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived." (II Timothy 3:13)

When Christ shall come in the air, "the dead in Christ shall rise first:  Then we which are alive and remain (the living Christians) shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air:  and so shall we ever be with the Lord." (I Thessalonians 4:16-17)  Then the Anti-Christ will be manifested here upon the earth and the seven years of tribulation shall begin.   At the end of the seven years of tribulation, the Lord will return with His saints and utterly defeat the armies of the Anti-Christ.  Satan will be bound and cast into the bottomless pit, and then the Lord will establish his kingdom here on earth and reign for a thousand years. (Revelation 19-21)

WE ARE MISSIONARY

Every true New Testament Baptist Church should be missionary.  Jesus gave the command to His Church in Matthew 28:18-20, that they were to "teach all nations."  He also said, "go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature." (Mark 16:15)  To be obedient to Christ, we must send missionaries to the foreign field, while we are missionaries on the home field.

It is not enough to be missionary in name, but we must be missionary in practice.  This means that we should pray for missions, and support missions with the finances that God has placed in our hand.  We receive a mission offering every week.  We practice Faith Promise Mission giving.

We support sound Bible-believing missionaries.   Support is sent direct to the missionary through his home church or mission board.   We have recently increased our missions giving and missions family, and by God's grace we intend to continue to raise it.

WE ARE INDEPENDENT

We are not independent to do as we please, but we are independent and unaffiliated, in order that we might do as God pleases.  God forbid that we should ever want to be independent from God.  We are not "affiliated with" nor do we "belong to" any association or convention.  Jesus established the local New Testament Church, and we do not believe that He established any convention or association to lord it over the churches.  It is our contention that a true church cannot Scripturally join anything nor become affiliated with any outside religious organization.

Churches may work together in the work of Christ, but should beware of entangling alliances which bring them under the domination of boards and denominational secretaries.  Eventually these extra-Scriptural organizations become the citadels of compromise and doctrinal laxness, with an insatiable desire to dominate and lord it over the churches.