As a Reformed Baptist Church, we are a doctrinally conservative congregation that holds to a reformed understanding of the Scripture in a Baptistic tradition.  The term "reformed" comes from the period of church history called "The Reformation", when important Biblical truths were recovered, truths that we embrace to this day.

Among the truths recovered during the reformation are the "Sola's".   These are "sola scriptura" ("scripture alone" as the authority for life and practice in the church), "sola gratia" (God's sovereign "grace alone" as the reason for our salvation without any actual or potential human merit), "sola fide" (justification by "faith alone" and no human works), "solus Christus" (salvation through the Person and work of Jesus "Christ alone"), and "soli Deo gloria" (all things ultimately for "the glory of God alone").

We also embrace what are commonly called "the Doctrines of Grace":  that man is totally depraved by the fall into sin, the redeemed are unconditionally chosen by God as an act of His sovereign grace, that Jesus Christ paid a substitutionary penalty of death specifically for the sins of those who believe in Him, that the salvation of God's elect from the foundation of the earth is sovereignly applied by the Holy Spirit, and that those who are justified by God's grace are preserved by God's grace in the faith.  In short, we hold to a deliberately God-centered view of salvation.

As a Reformed Baptist church, we hold to the essentials of the Christian faith, and have adopted the Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 as a fuller expression of our beliefs and our commitment to historic Baptist principles.

Holding to the "regulative principle" in regard to worship, our weekly gathering for worship is Scripturally based, simple, and serious.  As instructed by the Scriptures, the worship service consists of prayer, singing, Scripture reading, and preaching on a weekly basis, and we gather at the Lord's Table at least once per month.

We invite you to join us.

Although we have adopted The Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689, the following was approved by Cornerstone Chapel in March of 1993, as a summary expression of the core beliefs of Christianity, which we embrace:

All Scripture is self-attesting and being Truth, requires our unreserved submission in all areas of life. The infallible Word of God, the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, is a complete and unified witness to God’s redemptive acts culminating in the incarnation of the Living Word, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible, uniquely and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, is the supreme and final authority on all matters on which it speaks.

On this sure foundation we affirm these additional Essentials of our faith:

We believe in one God, the sovereign Creator and Sustainer of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in Three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. To Him be all honor, glory, and praise forever!

Jesus Christ, the living Word, became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth. He who is true God became true man united in one Person forever. He died on the cross a sacrifice for our sins according to the Scriptures. On the third day He arose bodily from the dead. He ascended into heaven, where, at the right hand of the Majesty on High, He now is our High Priest and Mediator.

The Holy Spirit has come to glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ to our hearts. He convicts us of sin and draws us to the Savior. Indwelling our hearts, He gives new life to us, empowers and imparts gifts to us for service. He instructs and guides us into all truth, and seals us for the day of redemption.

Being separated from God and condemned by our sinfulness, our salvation is wholly dependent upon the work of God’s free grace. God credits His righteousness to those who put their faith in Christ alone for their salvation, thereby justifying them in His sight. Only such as are born of the Holy Spirit and receive Jesus Christ become children of God and heirs of eternal life.

The true Church is composed of all persons who through saving faith in Jesus Christ and the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit are united together in the body of Christ. The Church finds her visible, yet imperfect, expression in local congregations where the Word of God is preached in its purity, the Ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s Supper are administered in their integrity, where scriptural discipline is practiced, and where loving fellowship is maintained. For her perfecting, she awaits the return of her Lord.

Jesus Christ will come again to the earth – personally, visibly, and bodily – to judge the living and the dead, and to consummate history and the eternal plan of God. "Even so, come, Lord Jesus." (Rev 22:20)

The Lord Jesus Christ commands all believers to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world and to make disciples of all nations. Obedience to the Great Commission requires total commitment to "Him who loved us and gave Himself for us." (Ephesians 5:2) He calls us to a life of self-denying love and service. "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them." (Ephesians 2:10)