ABOUT CBC

Our Doctrinal Statement

We believe all scripture was given by the inspiration of God and is therefore the supreme standard by which all conduct, creeds and opinions should be tried.

2 Timothy 3:15-17, 2 Peter 1:19-21

We believe in the triune God revealed to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God is the Father in truth to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ, and reigns with providential care over his universe. Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin. He was crucified, died, and was buried for our sin, and on the third day rose victorious over death (bodily), and appeared to many witnesses. He will return in power and glory to establish his Kingdom forever. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God who convicts us of sin, draws us to God, dwells within us, and empowers us for service.

Matthew 1:18-25; John 1:12; John 4:23-24; Acts 1:18, 11; Romans 8:14-15; 1 Corinthians 2:2; 1 Corinthians 15:3-8; Galatians 4-6; Ephesians 1:13-14, 20; Colossians 1:13-22

We believe God created man and woman in his own image, without sin and having freedom of choice. By the disobedience of Adam and Eve, sin entered into the world, separating all people from God. By the shed blood of Jesus Christ, salvation is offered freely to all who accept Him as Savior and Lord. We are now a new creation because of God's work of redemption and regeneration (The New Birth).

Genesis 1:26-27; John 3:16; Romans 5:12-21; 2 Corinthians 5:17; 1 Peter 1:19; 1 John 1:7; 1 John 2:2

We believe that the church is the body of Jesus Christ, consisting of all regenerated people of all time, and functions through local assemblies of believers. The local church is a community of believers with Spirit-given gifts that enable them to minister and to proclaim Christ to one another and to the world.

Matthew 16:17-20; 1 Corinthians 12:12-31; Ephesians 4:1-16

We believe in Christian baptism by the immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It is an act of obedience, testifying to our faith in a crucified buried and risen Savior. It symbolizes our death to sin, the burial of our old lives, and the resurrection to the new.

Acts 2:41; Romans 6:3-5; Colossians 2:12

We believe the Lord's Supper is an act of obedience, wherein we partake of the bread and the cup remembering and proclaiming Jesus's death until he comes again.

Acts 2:42; 1 Corinthians 10:16; 1 Corinthians 11:17-32

We believe that all who are regenerated by God's Holy Spirit are called to walk humbly with God in a life of service to their fellow human beings. God has always been a God of justice, love, and mercy, as such, we who call ourselves by His name, should continually be seeking to establish justice and to be a people of reconciliation and healing as we proclaim Christ to the world.

Micah 6:8; 2 Corinthians 5:16-21

We believe marriage is instituted by God and is between one man and one woman where the man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. In marriage, we believe that the wife shall submit to the man as onto the Lord and that the husband shall love his wife as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.

Genesis 2:24; Ephesians 5:22-25

DOCTRINAL STATEMENT