We believe that the Bible, both Old and New Testaments,
is supernaturally inspired, so that it is inerrant in the
original manuscripts and preserved by God in its verbal
and plenary inspiration, so that it is a divinely authoritative
standard for every age and every life. (Matthew 5:18; 1
Corinthians 2:13; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:21)
GOD
We believe in one God that eternally exists and reveals
Himself in three persons - Father, Son, Holy Spirit - having
each the same nature, attributes and perfections, worthy
of the same worship and confidence. (Matthew 3:16-17, 28:19;
John 1:1-2, 14, 10:30,
14:15-17; 1 Corinthians 8:6; 2 Corinthians 13:14)
We believe in God as absolute and sole Creator and Sustainer
of the universe, and that creation was by divine command,
from nothing and not through an evolutionary process. (John
1:3, 10; Acts 17:24-25; Genesis 1:1)
We believe that God, by His sovereign choice and out of
love for men, sent Christ into the world to save sinners.
(John 3:16;
1 Timothy 1:15; 1 John 4:14)
GOD THE SON
We believe that Jesus Christ was fully God in the flesh
and fully man, that He was born of a virgin and that He
lived a sinless life, in which He taught and performed mighty
works and wonders and signs exactly as revealed in the four
gospels. We believe that He was crucified, shed His blood,
died to pay the penalty for our sins and was raised bodily
from the dead on the third day. Forty days later He ascended
to the Father's right hand where He is Head of the Church
and intercedes for believers. From there He is coming again
personally, bodily and visibly to this earth to set up His
millennial kingdom. (Isaiah 7:14, 9:6; Hebrews 1:1-2, 7:25;
Luke 1:30-35; Ephesians 4:8; John 1:1-5, 10-14, 14:3; Colossians
2:9;
We believe that the Holy Spirit is a person and is God,
possessing all the divine attributes. He convicts of sin,
regenerates, indwells, baptizes and seals all believers
at the moment of their salvation, filling them in response
to yieldedness with the goal of conforming them to the image
of Christ. (John 3:5, 16:7-11; Acts 5:3-4; Ephesians 1:13,
4:30, 5:18; 1 Corinthians 6:19, 12:13)
MAN
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness
of God, but that in Adam's sin the race fell, inherited
a sinful nature and became alienated from God. We believe
that all men are morally corrupt, and of themselves utterly
unable to remedy their lost condition. (Genesis 1:26-27;
Romans 1:18, 3:23, 5:12; Ephesians 2:1-3, 12)
SALVATION
We believe that salvation is a gift of God and is received
by man through personal faith in Jesus Christ and His sacrifice
for sin. We believe that man is justified by grace through
faith apart from works and that all true believers, once
saved, are kept secure in Christ forever. (Acts 13:38-39;
Romans 4:5, 6:23, 8:1, 38-39; John 10:27-29; Ephesians 2:8-9)
THE CHURCH
We believe that the true Church is composed of all persons
who are regenerated by the Holy Spirit through saving faith
in Jesus Christ; that they are united together in the body
of Christ of which He is Lord and Head; and are commissioned
for the God-given tasks of worshiping, fellowshipping, teaching,
evangelizing and exercising the spiritual gifts. (Acts 2:42,47;
Romans 12:5; Ephesians 1:22-23, 5:23-24; 1 Corinthians 12:12-14;
2 Corinthians 11:2)
We believe that the establishment and continuance of the
local church is clearly taught in the New Testament Scriptures.
(Acts 14:27, 20:17, 28-32; 1 Timothy 3:1-13; Titus 1:5-11)
We believe that the local church is autonomous and free
of any external authority or control. (Acts 13:1-4, 20:28;
Romans 16:1, 4; 1 Corinthians 3:9, 16, 5:4-7, 13; 1 Peter
5:1-4)
THE ORDINANCES
We believe the ordinances for the believer are water baptism
by immersion and the Lord's supper as a memorial. They are,
however, not to be regarded as a means of salvation. But
both of which are an evidence of obedience and fellowship
with the Lord. (Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 2:38, 41, 8:12, 35-38;
Luke 22:19-20; 1 Corinthians 11:23-29)
THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
We believe that a Christian should walk in holiness and
not after the flesh, with the goal of being conformed to
the image of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. As a new
creation, walking in the Spirit, the Christian learns to
grow in faith, in obedience to Scripture, in prayer, in
fellowship with the saints and in a life of service. We
believe that the Christian will stand before the judgment
seat of Christ to have his life evaluated according to his
deeds. (Galatians 5:16-26; Hebrews 10:25; Ephesians 4:20-24;
Hebrews 11:6, 12:1-2; John 17:17; Ephesians 6:18; Romans
8:29; 2 Corinthians 5:10; 1 Corinthians 3:10-15)
THE SECOND COMING
We believe in the personal, premillennial and imminent
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. We believe in the bodily
resurrection of the dead, of the believer to everlasting
glory and the unbeliever to judgment and everlasting conscious
punishment. (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 1 Corinthians 15:51-52;
Titus 2:11-13; John 14:1-6; Matthew 25:46; Revelation 20:11-15;
2 Peter 3:10)
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