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650 Canaan Road, SE
Christiansburg, VA 24073
(540) 382-6350
What We Believe

  • We believe in the Bible as the inspired Word of God and in its divine authority. The Bible, both Old and New Testaments, to be verbally inspired by the Holy Spirit of God, and completely inerrant in the original writings, and to be the supreme and final authority in faith and life.
  • God eternally exists in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
  • We believe in God the Father as sole Creator and Sustainer of the universe. God so loved His creation that He sent His Son, Jesus Christ to save the world.
  • We believe that Jesus was both God and man, born of a virgin, and that He lived a sinless life. He was crucified and died as a penalty for our sins and was bodily raised from the dead on the third day. He ascended to the Father's right hand where He is the head of the church and from whence He is coming again personally to claim His Bride, the Church.
  • We believe that the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, dwells within all believers. He fills and refills the believer in response to their yielding of His holy will. The evidence of the Spirit was given to use toward meeting the needs within the church and outside our gathering as well.
  • We believe that man was created in the image of God; that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death, but spiritual death which is separation from God; that all human beings are born with a sinful nature; and that those who reach moral responsibility become sinners in thought, word and deed.
  • The Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as the representative and substitutionary sacrifice for all people, and that all who accept, trust, Him as their personal Savior are justified on the basis of His shed blood.
  • That all who receive, by faith, the Lord Jesus Christ, are born of the Holy Spirit and immediately become children of God.
  • In the resurrection of the crucified body of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His ascension into heaven and in His present life for us as High Priest and Advocate.
  • In "that blessed hope" the physical, eminent return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
  • In the bodily resurrection of the just and of the unjust; the everlasting blessedness of the saved; and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost.
  • We practice water baptism by immersion; regular celebration of communion, prayer and anointing with oil for physical, emotional, mental and spiritual needs; and public use of an altar for prayer and petition as well as confessing needs to God.