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Our Faith Statement
What We Believe
God. We believe there is only one living and true God, infinite and eternally existent, perfect in holiness and in love; existing in three persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) one in substance and equal in every Divine perfection (Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 45:22, 23, 6:3; Psalm 90:2; Revelation 1:8; I Johnn 4:8b; Matthew 28:19).
We believe in the absolute Deity of the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ; that He is true God and true man miraculously conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary; that He was put to death on a cross, buried and rose again the third day. He is the only mediator between God and man. We believe He is coming again to set up His millennial kingdom upon the earth (John 1:1, 2; I John 5:20; Luke 1:35; Matthew 1:18-25; I Timothy 2:5; Acts 1:9-11; Revelation 19:11-16; 20:4).
We believe that the Holy Spirit is a divine person equal with the Father and the Son and of the same substance and nature; that He convicts of sin, righteousness, and judgment; that He bears witness to the Truth; that He is the agent of the new birth; and that at conversion he baptizes the believer into the Body of Christ; and that He seals, guides, teaches, witnesses to, sanctifies and helps the believer, indwelling every true child of God (Acts 5:3, 4; 2 Corinthians 13:14; John. 16:8-11,14:16, 17, 3:3-7, 14:26; I Corinthians 13:16, 2:12, 13; Ephesians 1:13; Romans 15:16;).
The Scriptures. We believe that the Holy Bible, as originally written, is verbally inspired by God and is the product of Spirit-controlled men. Therefore, it is without error and is the only infallible rule for all human conduct, creeds, and opinions ( 2 Timothy 3:16, 17; 2 Peter 1:19-21; Proverbs 30:5).
Salvation. We believe that man, in the person of the first Adam, was directly created by God in innocence, but by voluntary transgression man fell into sin, thus plunging the whole human race into condemnation and death, so that now all mankind is born with a sinful nature and each person exercises that sinful nature by personal choices and thus is without excuse before God (Genesis 1:26, 3; Romans 5:12-19).
Redemption. We believe that the only escape from the condemnation of sin is through the redemption given by Jesus Christ when He voluntarily took upon Himself a human body and nature, yet without sin, and by His suffering, death and bodily resurrection, made full satisfaction to the justice of God for the sin of man; that the blessings of this salvation are given on the grounds of grace to all who believe; and that it is the immediate duty of all to repent and accept these offers of mercy (Hebrews 10:4-14; Philippians 2:6-8; I Peter 2:22; I John. 2:2; Ephesians 2:8, 9; Titus 3:5; Acts 16:30-33).
We believe that all the redeemed, once saved, are kept by God's power and thus are secure in Christ forever. We believe that it is the privilege of believers to rejoice in the assurance of their salvation through the testimony of God's Word, which, however, clearly forbids the use of Christian liberty as an occasion to sin (John 10:28, 29; I John 5:13; Galatians 5:15).
The Church. We believe the church is an elect company of believers baptized by the Holy Spirit into the one body of Christ. We believe that the body of Christ is manifest through the local church which is a congregation of believers voluntarily associated by covenant of faith for fellowship, work, worship, and the observance of the ordinances of Christ. The church has the right of self-government by the direction on the Holy Spirit under the laws of God and the headship of Christ (Ephesians 1:3-6, 1:22, 23; 5:23, 24; I Corinthians 12:12, 13; Acts 2:37-47).
We believe that there are two church ordinances, baptism and the Communion. Baptism is the immersion of a believer in water and is properly called "believers baptism." It sets forth in a beautiful and solemn way our faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Savior, with the effect of identifying the Christian with the body of Christ. The Communion is the commemoration by believers of the Lord's death and our continual fellowship with Him in anticipation of His coming again. The bread and the cup are symbolic of Christ's broken body and His shed blood (Matthew 28:19, 20; Romans 6:3, 4; Luke22:19, 20; I Corinthians 11:23-30).
