Welcome to The Cowboy Church of Houston County

THE TRINITY
   * The teaching that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are One God, yet three distinct Persons in the Godhead.

JESUS CHRIST
   * His true humanity and true Deity.  His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, shed blood for remission of sin, death, burial, and resurrection for our justification, ascension, Headship over the Church and His pre-millennial return.

THE HOLY SPIRIT
   * He convinces the unsaved of the truth of God's Word: convicts them of their need of  Christ; effects regeneration, baptizing the believing sinner into Christ; permanently indwelling every believer; teaching and sanctifying believers; securing them for all eternity.  He bestows spiritual gifts by which Christians serve God through Christ.

THE BIBLE
   * Original autographs verbally and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit: inerrant, infallible, authoritative, our solely authority for faith practice.

SALVATION
   * Entirely by grace through faith based on Christ's shed blood; eternal security for the believer.

PLAN OF SALVATION
    1. There must be a realization of man's condition.  He is helplessly and hopelessly a lost sinner. this is God's estimate, therefore, it is accurate (Romans 3:23).  Man is unable to change his condition (Isaiah 64:6; Titus 3:5).  sin brings death - spiritual, physical and eternal (Romans 6:23).
    2. There must be a realization of God's cure.  He sent His only Son, Jesus Christ, into the world to die for man as His substitute (2 Corinthians 5:21), and to cure his sinful condition (John3:16).
    3. There must be a realization of man's choice.  It is not enough that God did this for man, but man must repent (Luke 13:3, 5) and receive the offer of forgiveness and eternal life as a free gift (John :12).

THE LOCAL CHURCH
    * An autonomous fellowship of born-again, immersed believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the Gospel.  Meeting together to worship, edify on another and proclaim the Gospel, observing the ordinances of Christ: governed by His laws.  God's divinely appointed organization for the honor of His Name and the spreading of the Gospel worldwide.  It only proper officers and pastors and deacons or elders, whose qualifications, claims and duties are defined in the Epistles to Timothy and Titus.

THE CHURCH
    * Only two: believer's baptism and the Lord's Supper, Both ordinances are testimonial, not saving.

FUTURE THINGS
    * The pre-tribulational rapture of the Church, the pre-millennial return of Christ, literal 1000 year reign of Christ on earth, literal Heaven and literal hell: all unsaved will suffer consciously and eternally in hell with devil and his angels.