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1) We believe
in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments in their original writing as
fully inspired of God and
accept them
as the supreme and final authority for faith and life.
2) We believe in one God, externally existing in
three Persons – Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
3) We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten of the
Father, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin
Mary and
is true God and true man.
4) We believe that God created man in His own image;
that man sinned and thereby incurred the penalty of sin
which is
death, physical and spiritual; that all human beings inherit a sinful nature
which issues (in the case
of those
who reach moral responsibility) in actual transgressions involving personal
guilt.
5) We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for
our sins, a substitutionary sacrifice according to the Scriptures
and that
all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood.
6) We believe in the bodily resurrection of the Lord
Jesus, His ascension into Heaven, and His present life as
our High
Priest and Advocate.
7) We believe in the personal return of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
8) We believe that all who repent of their sin and
receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith are born again of the
Holy
Spirit and thereby become children of God.
9) We believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit,
empowering and equipping believers for service, with the
accompanying
supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit; and in fellowship with the Holy Spirit.
We believe in the
divinely
ordained ministries of Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher.
10) We believe in the resurrection of both the just
and the unjust, the eternal blessedness of the redeemed, and
the
eternal banishment of those who have rejected the offer of salvation.
11) We believe that the one true Church is the whole
company of those who have been redeemed by Jesus
Christ
and regenerated by the Holy Spirit; that the local church on earth should take
it’s character from this
conception
of the Church spiritual and therefore, that the new birth and personal
confession of Christ are
essentials
of Church membership.
12) We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ appointed
to ordinances – Baptism in water and the Lord’s Supper –
to be
observed as acts of obedience and as perpetual witnesses to the cardinal facts
of the Christian faith;
that Baptism
is the immersion of the believer as a confession of identification with Christ
in burial and
resurrection
and that the Lord’s Supper is the partaking of the emblems symbolic of the
Savior’s broken
body and
shed blood, in remembrance of His sacrificial death, till He comes.
13) We believe that divine healing was provided for
in the Old Testament and is an integral part of the Gospel.
14) We believe the Bible teaches that without
holiness no man can see the Lord. We believe in the doctrine of
sanctification
as a definite, yet progressive work of grace, commencing at the time of the new
birth and
continuing
until the consummation of salvation.
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