We believe in the Bible as the inspired Word
of God and in its divine authority.
The Bible, both Old and New
Testaments, to be verbally inspired by the Holy Spirit of God, and
completely inerrant in the original writings, and to be the
supreme and final authority in faith and life.
God eternally exists in three
persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
We believe in God the Father as sole Creator
and Sustainer of the universe. God so loved His creation that He
sent His Son, Jesus Christ to save the world.
We believe that Jesus was both God and man,
born of a virgin, and that He lived a sinless life. He was
crucified and died as a penalty for our sins and was bodily raised
from the dead on the third day. He ascended to the Father's right
hand where He is the head of the church and from whence He is
coming again personally to claim His Bride, the
Church.
We believe that the Holy Spirit, the third
person of the Trinity, dwells within all believers. He fills and
refills the believer in response to their yielding of His holy
will. The evidence of the Spirit was given to use toward meeting
the needs within the church and outside our gathering as
well.
We believe that man was
created in the image of God; that he sinned and thereby incurred
not only physical death, but spiritual death which is separation
from God; that all human beings are born with a sinful nature; and
that those who reach moral responsibility become sinners in
thought, word and deed.
The Lord Jesus Christ died for
our sins according to the Scriptures as the representative and
substitutionary sacrifice for all people, and that all who accept,
trust, Him as their personal Savior are justified on the basis of
His shed blood.
That all who receive, by
faith, the Lord Jesus Christ, are born of the Holy Spirit and
immediately become children of God.
In the resurrection of the
crucified body of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His ascension into
heaven and in His present life for us as High Priest and
Advocate.
In "that blessed hope" the
physical, eminent return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus
Christ.
In the bodily resurrection of
the just and of the unjust; the everlasting blessedness of the
saved; and the everlasting conscious punishment of the
lost.
We practice water baptism by immersion;
regular celebration of communion, prayer and anointing with oil
for physical, emotional, mental and spiritual needs; and public
use of an altar for prayer and petition as well as confessing
needs to God.
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