Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.

Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes. Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments. Psalm 119: 153-156

Effects of the Grace of God

The grace of God makes all men who feel its power to be BRETHREN! We are one family in Christ.

Grace makes the prosperous give his hand and help to the poor. Grace makes the healthy to reach out and care for the weak and sickly. Grace makes the learned and the intellectual to stoop from their so-called dignity and embrace the ignorant and the unlettered. Grace makes the important to be polite and considerate of the lesser. Grace makes the elder to be understanding and patient with the impulsive youth. Grace makes the offended to forgive the offender and to forget the offense.

Let the grace of God lay hold of a man’s heart; then pride, envy, and bitterness go to their graves! Pastor Henry T. Mahan (1989)

We Believe

Scriptures Alone: The Bible is the Word of God, (1 Timothy 3:16). All Scripture is given by inspiration of God. It contains no error whatsoever. We do not derive our doctrine from men or denominations. The Bible is our rule of faith and practice. "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this Word, it is because there is no light in them" (Isaiah 8:20)

Christ Alone: Christ is the Gospel. He is both the subject and the object of The Gospel. It is about Him (Romans 1:1-3), and for His glory (Colossians 1:18). "Christ is ALL" are the words of scripture (Colossians 3:11). He is All in the scriptures, All to God, All in salvation, and All to every believer. The SURE and ONLY hope of every child of God is wrapped up in the person and work of Christ. Salvation is caused by the work of Christ, His effectual atonement for His people (Mathew 1:21) and experienced by knowing and bowing to the Lordship of Christ (John 17:2 - 3).

Grace Alone: Every aspect of salvation from the beginning (election) to the end, (glorification) is all of God's grace. Salvation is not what you do for God, but what He does for you. No part of salvation can be ascribed to man. To ascribe any part of salvation to the religious efforts, good works, or free will of man is to deny salvation by grace, "Salvation is of the Lord" (Jonah 2:9). "By grace are ye saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God; not of works lest any man should boast" (Ephesians 2:8 - 9).

Faith Alone: Christ and His salvation is not received by doing, but by believing. "This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent." Anybody who trusts Christ for salvation will be saved. "The just shall live by faith" (Romans 1:17). Pastor Donnie Bell

Much Assurance

“For our Gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.” (I Thess. 1:5).

The believer in the Lord Jesus possesses the God-given much assurance that for him to have any hope of eternal life, the Father must have chosen him in Christ before the foundation of the world that he should be holy and without blame before God in love. He has much assurance that Christ was made sin for him at Calvary, satisfying the law’s demand for justice by His own shed blood and the much assurance that the only righteousness which God accepts is the imputed righteousness of Christ. This is the firm conviction and much assurance of his hope.

Pastor Marvin Stalnaker

Grace Alone, Christ Alone

If any man thinks that he is justified before God by his good works he is tragically and dreadfully mistaken (2 Tim. 1:9; Titus 3:5).

What a horrible rebuke of the effectual and substitutionary sacrifice and perfect obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ, to entertain thoughts of self-glory, self-righteousness and self-salvation (Phil. 2:6-9; Luke 16:15). Paul made this very argument to the Galatians church. "I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law,

then Christ is dead in vain" (Gal. 2:21).

The Lord Jesus Christ alone is all any sinner needs to stand in God's presence justified (Jude 24; Col. 1:19-22; Rom. 8:1). Those in Christ by sovereign adoption, effectual calling, powerful regeneration and saving faith have no other hope (2 Thess. 2:13-16) nor ground on which to stand (Acts 4:12; Isa. 28:16).