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SCRIPTURES
We believe the Scriptures, the sixty-six books
of the old and New Testaments, in their original
form, to be plenarily and verbally inspired,
without error. The Scriptures are God's complete
and closed revelation to man and the only
authoritative Word of God. God has and will
preserve His Word throughout all generations.
II Timothy 3:16; II Peter 1:20-21; Romans
16:25-26; Matthew 5:18
GOD
We believe that there is one God, eternally
existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit.
Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:19-20; Matthew
3:16-17; Isaiah 45:5-6; John 17:3
JESUS CHRIST
We believe in the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ
(that He is, indeed, coequal with the Father),
His virgin birth, His sinless life, His
miracles, His vicarious, and atoning death
through His shed blood, His bodily resurrection,
His ascension to the right hand of the Father,
His intercessory work, and His personal return
in power and glory. Matthew 1:18-25; Mark 16:19;
Luke 21: 27; 24:36-43; Romans 8:34; II
Corinthians 5:21; Colossians 2:9; Revelation 5:9
MAN
We believe that man as represented in Adam was
created in the image of God and is not the
product of any evolutionary process. Adam, by
his man free will, sinned, which has caused the
entire human race to be born with a sinful
nature. This sinful nature which we choose to
exercise, gains for us the condemnation and
wrath of God. To escape this condemnation and
wrath, man must of his own free will experience
the New Birth by repentance and faith in the
Lord Jesus Christ. Genesis 1:26; John 1:12, John
3:3; Romans 5:12; Titus 3:5
SALVATION
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for
our sins according to the scriptures, as a
representative and substitutionary sacrifice;
was buried; and arose again from the dead in His
glorified body,ascended into heaven, and as our
great High Priest and Advocate, He ever lives to
make intercession for us; that all who believe
on His name are justified on the grounds of His
shed blood and receive the gift of eternal life
by the grace of God. Nothing prevents the
salvation of the greatest sinner but his own
voluntary rejection of the gospel.
Ephesians 2:8,9; Hebrews 7:24,25; Isaiah 1:18;
John 3:16-18,36; Romans 5:8-10; I Corinthians
15:1-4; Romans 10:9)
HOLY SPIRIT
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy
Spirit, Who convinces the sinner of his need of
salvation, regenerates the repentant sinner, and
baptizes the believer into the body of Christ at
the moment of salvation.
He also seals, indwells, fills, guides, and
teaches the believer. John 14: 16-17,26; John
16:8-11,13; Ephesians 4:30, Ephesians 5:18; I
Corinthians 6:19-20
CHURCH
We believe that the church of Jesus Christ began
at Pentecost and is a living spiritual body of
which our Lord Himself is the Head. The "church
which is His body" is the entire company of
believers in Christ consisting of all
regenerated people. While recognizing this body
of the redeemed collectively that makes up the
ultimate bride of Christ, it is specifically the
local church that the Lord Jesus Christ has
ordained to edify His people and to send them
out to evangelize the world. The local church
has been entrusted with the administration of
two ordinances: First, baptism by immersion
after salvation as an outward sign of an inward
work of grace; and Secondly, the Lord's Supper
as a token of remembrance of the atonement of
Christ till He comes. Matthew 28:19; I
Corinthians 11:23-24; Ephesians 4:4-16;
Colossians 2:12; Acts 1:5, 2:1-4,41-42;
10:44-48; I Corinthians 12:12-13; Ephesians
1:22-23;
ETERNAL SECURITY
We believe in the eternal security of the
believer in Christ. They are kept by the power
of God, and can know they are eternally saved,
once forever! John 10:27-29; Ephesians 4:30;
Romans 8:35-39; Hebrews 13:5;
SEPARATION
In order to guard the purity of the truths
mentioned above, we recognize that the
Scriptures command personal separation unto God
from world attitudes, motives, goals,
friendships, speech, amusements, styles and
dress, etc. It also commands ecclesiastical
separation from false religious teachers and
from persistently disobedient brethren.
Ecclesiastical separation includes a rejection
of liberalism, Neo-orthodoxy, New
Evangelicalism, and the charismatic movement.
Obedience to these commands brings the joy of
full and unhindered fellowship with our Father.
Romans 12: 1-2, 16:17; II Corinthians 6:14-7:1;
II Thessalonians 3:6, 14-15; Titus 3:10; II John
7-11
LAST THINGS
We believe in the pre-tribulational,
premillennial rapture of the church, the body
and bride of Christ. We believe in the period of
great tribulation of seven years following the
rapture. The Great Tribulation (Daniel's
seventieth week) will end with the coming of
Christ in power and glory to the earth in order
to set up His kingdom and rule for a thousand
years. We believe in the resurrection of both
the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto
the resurrection of life (eternal joy with the
Savior), and they that are lost unto the
resurrection of damnation (eternal death in Hell
following the Great White Throne Judgment)
Daniel 9:24-27; John 5:28-29; I Thessalonians
4:13-18; Revelation 20:1-6, 10-15; 21:27 |