- We
believe in the scriptures of the Old and New Testament as verbally inspired
by God and inerrant in the original writings and that they are of supreme
and final authority in faith and life.
- We
believe in one God eternal, omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent,
manifesting Himself in Three Persons — Father, Son and Holy Spirit
— one in nature, attributes, power and glory.
- We
believe that the Lord Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit,
born of the virgin Mary, and that He is true God and true man.
- We
believe in the literal account of creation and that the Scripture clearly
and distinctly teaches that the creation of man lies in the special,
immediate, and formative acts of God; that he sinned and thereby incurred
not only physical death, but also that spiritual death which is separation
from God; all men are sinners and under just condemnation.
- We
believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the
Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and rose
again for our justification; that all who believe in Him are justified
on the grounds of His shed blood, and are saved by grace through faith,
wholly apart from human merit and works.
- We
believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus, are born again
by the Holy Spirit through the Word of God and thereby become the children
of God
- We
believe that the Holy Spirit is a Divine Person — the administrator
of the God-head — convicting of sin, revealing Christ, teaching
truth, restraining evil, energizing believers in prayer, worship, and
service, and is ever present in the believer as Comforter and Helper.
- We
believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, His ascension
into Heaven, His present life there as High Priest and Advocate, and
His personal, bodily, visible, pre-millennial return to establish His
Kingdom on earth and to reign as the only Potentate, the King of Kings,
and Lord of Lords.
- We
believe that at any moment the rapture of the saved may occur, when
“the Lord shall descend from Heaven” to catch up His people
to meet Him in the air, and “so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
- We
believe in the bodily resurrection of all the dead — the saved
to a life of eternal glory and bliss in Heaven with God; the unsaved
to eternal judgment of conscious suffering and woe in the lake of fire.
- We
believe in personal separation from all practices and influences, which
hinder a spirit-filled life. We believe in ecclesiastical separation
from all forms of apostasy. This we believe necessary as the only Scriptural
basis for a happy and useful Christian life.
- We
believe that it is the privilege and responsibility of every believer
to be a personal soul-winner and to do his utmost to give the Gospel
of Christ to the whole world.
- We
believe that the true, universal Church includes all believers in Christ
during this present dispensation and is the body and bride of Christ
of which He is the Head.
- We
believe that the local church is a congregation of immersed believers
associated by covenant, observing the ordinances of Christ, exercising
the gifts, privileges and responsibilities given in the New Testament,
and following a democratic and congregational type of government.
- We
believe that there are two church ordinances: Baptism and the Lord's
Supper. Baptism is the immersion of a believer in water to show forth
a solemn and beautiful emblem of our faith in the crucified, buried
and risen Savior, and our death to sin and resurrection to a new life,
and that it is a prerequisite to local church relation. The Lord's Supper
is a memorial service commemorating His death until He comes and should
be preceded by solemn self-examination.
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