What We Believe

As often as our church changes and evolves, with new programs, new campuses, and new ideas on how to share the Gospel, one thing has NOT changed since Walnut Hill's inception: What We Believe.

  • About the Bible

    We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as inspired by God and inerrant in the original writings and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life.
    2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1;21

  • About God

    We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
    Matthew 28:19; John 14:10, 13, 16, 17, 26; 2 Corinthians 13:14

  • About Jesus Christ: His Person

    We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and is true God and true man.
    Matthew 1:18, 23; Luke 1:35; John 17:11, 21

  • About Human Beings

    We believe that man was created in the image of God; that he sinned and thereby incurred, not only physical death, but also spiritual death which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature; and, in the case of those who reach moral responsibility, become sinners in thought, word and deed.
    Genesis 1:26-27; 2:7; Jeremiah 17:9; Ezekiel 18:4; Romans 3:23; 5:12; Ephesians 2:3

  • About Jesus Christ: His Work

    We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice; and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood.
    Isaiah 53:6; John 3:16; Romans 5:9, 12; 6:23; 1 Corinthians 15:3, 21; 1 Peter 2:24

    We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into heaven, and in His present life for us there as High Priest and Advocate.
    Luke 24:6; Acts 1:9; Hebrew 4:14; 10:12

  • About Salvation

    We believe that all who, by faith, surrender their lives to the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit, and thereby, become children of God.
    John 1:12-13; 3:3; 1 Peter 1:23

  • About Eternal Security

    We believe that those who have given themselves to Jesus have everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation, but are passed from death unto life; and that the Lord Jesus Christ gives unto them eternal life and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of God's hand.
    John 5:24; 10:28-29

  • About the Church

    We believe that the Church is the spiritual body of which Christ is the Head and that it includes all who have surrendered their lives to the Lord. Its mission is to offer acceptable worship to God and to serve Him faithfully by spreading the Gospel and making disciples of all nations. The ordinances of the Church are baptism and the Lord's Supper.
    Matthew 16:18; 28:19-20; Acts 2:41; 1 Corinthians 11:23-29; Ephesians 1:22-23; 3:10-11; 4:11-16

  • About the Second Coming

    We believe in "that blessed hope," the personal return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
    John 14:3; Acts 1:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Titus 2:13; Revelation 1:7

  • About Eternity

    We believe in the physical resurrection of the body. Those who don't know Christ shall be eternally separated from God's presence, but believers shall live and reign with Him forever.
    Matthew 25:46; John 3:36; 5:28-29; Revelation 20:12, 15