“Your Word Is Truth”
On the Parkway since 2007.

The Bible was, as originally given, written by holy men of God as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.  It is verbally inspired by God and is inerrant, infallible, sufficient, and eternal.  As such, it is the supreme and final authority in faith and in life.

God has structured His plan for the ages of human history in the form of Biblical dispensations that are clearly seen in the progressive revelation of His Word.

God is triune in nature:  one God in essence, three in persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—who are coeternal, consubstantial and coequal.

God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is the heavenly Father of all who have come to a saving knowledge of His only begotten Son.

We believe in the absolute deity and full humanity of Jesus Christ: His incarnation by means of the Holy Spirit and virgin birth; His sinless life and miraculous ministry on earth; His death on the cross as a substitutionary atonement for the sins of all men; His bodily resurrection from among the dead; His exaltation to the right hand of the majesty on high as Lord, mediator, priest, and advocate; His personal, premillennial, and imminent return to bring into consummation His work of redemption by ultimate triumph over Satan and his hosts.

We believe in the personality and deity of the Holy Spirit. By His power sinners are brought under conviction of sin and are drawn to Christ for salvation. Through Him men are regenerated and sanctified, and by Him the saints are indwelt with the divine presence. By His endowment, God’s people are enabled to serve the Lord acceptably. He is the divine witness, seal, earnest, anointing, guide, teacher, and administrator.

The entire universe was brought into existence by the creating act of the triune God. Genesis — chapters one through eleven in the same way as chapters twelve through fifty — is a literal, historical narrative. The universe was created by God out of nothing in a literal, six-day, twenty-four hour cycle of time.

As a fallen angel, Satan is a real personality, “the old serpent, the devil, and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world.” He is the archenemy of God and man, and in God’s own appointed time, he will suffer ultimate defeat at the hands of the Lord Jesus and will be tormented throughout eternity in the lake of fire.

We believe Adam was originally created by God in His image, but by disobedience to his Creator he incurred both spiritual and physical death, and, as a result of original sin, the entire human race was plunged into sin and death.  Because God is the Author of life, we believe that human life begins at conception and that the unborn child is a living human being. Therefore, we believe that abortion for mere choice, rape, incest, birth defects, gender selection, birth or population control, or the physical or mental well-being of the mother, is murder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we recognize that in rare circumstances a pregnancy may be terminated when its continuation would clearly result in the death of the mother and the child. For similar reasons, we believe that euthanasia is murder.

We believe in the universality and the exceeding sinfulness of sin. No remission of sins can occur apart from the shedding of the blood of the Son of God and man’s repentance and faith in that shed blood.

Salvation is wholly of divine grace, apart from any works of merit of the sinner; it is provided in the atonement of Jesus Christ wrought by God and is received by a sinner when he repents towards God and puts his trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as his own personal Savior and thereafter is eternally secure.

Sanctification is that gracious and continuous operation of the Holy Spirit, by which He delivers the justified sinner from the pollution of sin, renews his whole nature in the image of God, and enables him to perform good works.

Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Baptism sets forth in picture the essential facts in redemption; the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ; the essential facts in the experience of the believer: death to sin and resurrection to walk in newness of life; and the essential facts in the hope of the believer: that should he experience physical death, he will be raised from the dead to participate in the eternal glory of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

The Lord’s Supper is a commemoration of the Lord’s death, to be observed until He comes again. The elements, the bread and the fruit of the vine, are symbols of His broken body and shed blood; our observance of the Lord’s Supper is a pictorial testimony of the believer’s fellowship with the Crucified Lord and should be preceded by solemn heart-searching and self-judgment.

The universal church, the Body of Christ, was constituted and empowered by the coming of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost; it was purchased with the blood of Christ; it was founded upon Christ, the Rock; its mission is to bear to the ends of the earth a Spirit-filled testimony to the judgment of God against sin and the salvation of sinners who repent towards God and exercise faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. A local New Testament church is a body of believers in Christ in a particular location, who have followed the Lord through the waters of baptism, a baptism not for salvation, but in obedience to our Lord’s command. The local church associates together under the direction and government of the Holy Spirit for worship, instruction, fellowship, and service in the exercising of spiritual gifts and the spread of the gospel to the uttermost parts of the earth. The local church is absolutely sovereign, under the administration of the Holy Spirit, in the handling of its own affairs and in determining its own relation ships; its relationship with other ecclesiastical bodies is one of fellowship only.

The government authority is ordained of God for the good of the citizens under its jurisdiction; believers in Christ are to be ardent to obey its every ordinance for the Lord’s sake unless contrary to the Word of God; and we are to pray faithfully for those who occupy positions of civil authority.  We believe, however, in the absolute separation of church and state; each has been ordained of God to render service in entirely different spheres and for different purposes and therefore, neither is to dictate to the other, nor are they to form any organic union whatsoever.

We believe Almighty God has purposed to save sinners; He has committed the Gospel message unto the faithful witness of His redeemed children to reach the world with the Gospel; and He has commissioned His people to diligently and zealously publish the saving message of Jesus Christ through out all the world in order that sinners may repent of their sins, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and be saved.

Christians should be separated unto Christ and from the world in order to display good works and to live a life in conformity to the plain teachings of Scripture. We, therefore, urge each member of Grace Bible Church to abstain from every questionable practice, keeping himself or herself holy in mind, body, and spirit, thereby reflecting an exemplary Christian life in dress, conversation, amusement, and business habit, according to the teachings of God’s Holy Word.

Men and worldly conditions will move from bad to worse until this age ends in a widespread apostasy from “the faith once delivered to the saints.” When man’s rebellion against God reaches its awful climax in the worship of Satan, the Lord Jesus Christ will come to earth, bring an end to every wicked device of man, incarcerate Satan in the Abyss, and take His Messianic throne to reign in righteousness over the earth for one thousand years.

We believe the eternal, unconditional covenants of Scripture (Abrahamic, Land, Davidic and New Covenants) will find their ultimate, literal fulfillment upon the return of Christ to earth.

 We believe in two resurrections of all the dead. The righteous dead will have part in the first resurrection, which will issue in eternal life; and the wicked dead will have part in the second resurrection, which will issue in eternal damnation.

We believe eternity will be composed of the new heavens and the new earth and the lake of fire. Heaven is a place of blessedness, and the Lake of Fire is a place of eternal suffering. All true believers in Jesus Christ will be fully redeemed from sin’s penalty, power, and presence; will be glorified with the Lord when He returns; and will enjoy the blessing of unbroken fellowship with God in the new heavens and the new earth forever. All unrepentant sinners and rebels against God will be judged by the Lord Jesus Christ according to their deeds without respect of persons. By the glorious Gospel of God, they will be cast out from God’s presence to suffer the torments of the Lake of Fire forever. 

Any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, bestiality, incest, fornication, adultery, pornography, or any other abnormal aberration are sinful perversions of God’s gift of sex.  We believe that a person’s sex is either male or female and is determined before birth. We believe that God disapproves of and forbids: (I) any attempt to alter one’s gender by surgery; and (II) knowingly presenting one’s physical features or dress to be that of the opposite sex.

The only Scriptural marriage is the joining of one man and one woman.  Men and women are spiritually equal in position before God, but that God has ordained distinct and separate spiritual functions for men and women in the home and the church. The husband is to be the leader of the home, and men are to be the leaders of the church. Accordingly, only men are eligible for the roles of Elder, Deacon, and subordinate leadership roles established by the Elders. We affirm the complementarian view of the role of men and women as over against the egalitarian view of those roles.  God has ordained the traditional family (established by one man and one woman in marriage) as the essential institution of human society and is designed to reflect in the New Testament the relationship between Christ and the church. The husband is to love his wife as Christ loves the church. The wife is to submit herself to the Scriptural leadership of her husband as the church submits to the headship of Christ. Children are a heritage from the Lord. Fathers, with the assistance of their wives, are responsible for teaching their children spiritual and moral values and leading them through a consistent lifestyle example and appropriate discipline, including Scriptural corporal correction undergirded by love.