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Section 1: THE BIBLE We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the verbally inspired Word of God (2Tim 3:16-17). We hold the Bible to be inerrant in the original writings, infallible, God breathed, and the complete and final authority for faith and practice (2Tim 3:16-17). The Holy Spirit was the divine author of Scripture (2Pet 1:21). While still using the individual personalities of the human authors, the Holy Spirit superintended them to insure that they wrote precisely what he wanted written, without error or omission. Section 2: GOD We believe in one Triune God, who is Creator of all (Deu 6:4; Col 1:16; Neh 9:6), eternally existing in three distinct persons- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (2Cor 13:14; 1John 5:7), yet one in being, essence, power and glory, having the same attributes and perfections(John10:30). God is our creator (Gen 1:1; John 1:1-3), is eternal (Psa 90:2), infinite (1Tim 1:17), sovereign (Psa 93:1), and unsearchable (Rom 11:33-34), God is omniscient (Psa 139:1-6)omnipresent (Psa 139:7-13), omnipotent (Rev 19:6), and unchanging (Mal 3:6; Heb 13:8), God is holy (Isa 6:3), just (Deut 32:4), and righteous (Exo 9:27). God is love (1John 4:8), gracious (Eph 2:8), merciful (1Pet 1:3), and good (Rom 8:28). Section 3: JESUS CHRIST We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is fully God, the expressed image of the Father, who, without ceasing to be God, became man in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful man (Matt 1:21; John 1:18; Col 1:15-16; John 1:1; Col 2:9; 1Tim 3:16; John 8:58; Rev 1:8,18). We believe that God the Son became incarnate in the person of Jesus Christ; that He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and was born of the virgin Mary; that He is truly God and truly man; that He lived a perfect, sinless life; that all His teachings are true (Isa 14; Matt 1:23). We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross for all mankind (1 John 2:2), as a representative, vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice (Isa 53:5-6). We hold that His death is efficacious for all who believe (John 1:12; Acts 16:31); that our justification is grounded in the shedding of His blood (Rom 5:9; Eph 1:17); and that it is attested by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead (Matt 28:6; 1Pet 1:3). We believe the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to Heaven in His glorified body (Acts 1:9-10) and is now seated at the right hand of God the Father as our High Priest and Advocate (Rom 8:34; Heb 7:25). Section 4: THE HOLY SPIRIT We believe in the deity and personality of the Holy Spirit (Acts 5:3-4). We believe that the Holy Spirit convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment (John 16:8-11). He regenerates sinners (Titus 3:5) and indwells believers (Rom 8:9; John 14:16-17). He is the agent by whom Christ baptizes all believers into His body (1Cor 12:12-14). He is the seal by whom God the Father seals believers unto the day of redemption (Eph 1:13-14). He is the Divine Teacher who illumines believers hearts and minds as they study the Word of God (1Cor 2:9-12). We believe that the Holy Spirit is ultimately sovereign in the distribution of spiritual gifts (1Cor 12: 4,11; 1Pet 4:10). We believe that there are other evidences that are more credible than tongues as the primary evidence of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. (1Cor 12:30; 1Cor 13:1-3). We believe in the validity of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and that these gifts can be expressed today-but we don't believe in excess that so often accompany a freedom in the use of the gifts of the Spirit (1Cor 14:33,40). We believe spiritual gifts are for the primary edification of the Church. (1Cor 12:7; 14:2-4 1Pet 4:10). We also believe that to validate and receive edification from tongues in a group setting, there must also be an interpreter, and no more than 3 people speaking in tongues each in turn with one interpreter (1Cor 14:27-28;33). Section 5: SATAN AND DEMONS We believe in the existence and personality of Satan and demons. Satan is a fallen angel who led a great company of angels in rebellion against God (Isa 14:12-17; Eze 28:12-15). He is the great enemy of God and man and the demons are his agents in his unholy purposes. He and his demons shall be eternally punished in the lake of fire (Matt 25:41; Rev 20:10). Section 6: MEN AND WOMEN We believe that men and women came into being by direct creation of God and that we are made in the image and likeness of Him (Gen 1:26-27). We believe that the human race sinned in in the first man named Adam (Rom 5:12), and that sin has been transferred and is universal to all of mankind (Rom 3:23). We believe that since all of mankind has inherited a sinful nature, that all of us became alienated from God, and that we became totally depraved, and by ourselves we all are utterly unable to remedy our lost estate (Eph 2:1-5,12). We believe that all of mankind is guilty before God and in a lost condition apart from Jesus Christ (Rom 2:1; 3:23). Section 7: SALVATION We believe that salvation is a gift of God's grace through faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross (Eph 2:8-9). Christ shed His blood once and for all to accomplish justification through faith, propitiation to God, redemption from sin, and reconciliation of man (Heb 10:10-18). Christ died for all of mankind (Rom 5:8-9) and bore our sins in His own body (1Pet 2:24). We believe that all those who continue to truly place their faith in Jesus are eternally secure in their salvation, kept by God's power, secure and sealed in Christ forever (John 5:22-24; 6:37-40; 10:27-30, Rom 8:1, 38-39; Eph 1:13-14; Jude 24; 1Pet 1:5). Section 8: THE CHURCH We believe that the Church, which is the body and bride of Christ, is a spiritual organism made up of all born-again believers (1Cor 12:12-14; 2Cor 11:2; Eph 1:22-23; 5:25-27). We believe in the ordinances of believer's water baptism by immersion as an outward testimony of one's faith and the Lord's Supper as a remembrance of Christ's death and shed blood (Matt 28:19-20; Acts 2:41-42; 18:8; 1Cor 11:23-26). We believe in the priesthood of all believers (1Cor 1:1; Rev 1:6). We believe that the saved should live in such a manner as not to bring reproach upon their Lord and Savior, and that separation from sinful pleasures, practices, and associations is commanded by God (Rom 12:1-2; 2Cor 6:14-7:1; 2Tim 3:1-5; 1John 2:15-17). We believe the primary mission of the Church is to witness by word and lifestyle the truths of God's Word and share the Gospel of Grace to others (Matt 28:19-20; Acts 1:8; 2Cor 5:18-20). Section 9: THINGS TO COME We believe in the blessed hope (Titus 2:13), the personal, imminent, pre-tribulational, and pre-millennial coming of Jesus to rapture His saints (1Thes 4:13-18). We believe in the physical resurrection of all people-the saints (saved believers) to a everlasting life of joy and the (unsaved-unbelievers) to conscious and eternal torment (Matt 25:46; John 5:28-29; Rev 20:5-6;12-15). We believe that the souls of the redeemed are, at death, absent from the body and present with the Lord Jesus, where they await the first resurrection when spirit, soul, and body are reunited to receive a glorified body to be forever with the Lord (Luke 23:43; 2Cor 5:8; Phil 1:23; 3:21; 1Thes 4:16-17; Rev 20:4-6). We believe that the souls of the unbelievers remain, after death, in conscious misery until the second resurrection when, with soul and body reunited, they shall appear at the Great White Throne Judgment and shall be cast into the Lake of Fire, not to be annihilated, but to suffer everlasting conscious torment (Matt 25:41-46; Mark 9:43-48; Luke 16:19-26; 1Thess 1:7-9; Rev 20:11-15). |
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