The Church’s Independence & Relationships

We believe that the local visible church of Christ is a voluntary and independent autonomous group of baptized believers; acting as one body in love. It organically can join nothing, and as the pillar and ground of the truth, it has the power and right within itself to confess its own faith in accordance with the New Testament. Each congregation recognizes its own democratic self-contained government as its highest authority for carrying out the will of the Lord Jesus Christ.