- We believe the Bible is the Word of God, supernatural inspired, so that it is inerrant
in the original manuscripts and preserved by God in its verbal, plenary inspiration, so
that it is a divinely authoritative standard for every age and every life.
- We believe the Godhead exists eternally in three persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit -
and that these three are one God.
- We believe God is the absolute and sole Creator of the universe, and that creation was
by divine feat, not through evolutionary process.
- We believe God, by His sovereign choice and out of love for people, sent Christ into the
world to save sinners.
- We believe Jesus Christ in the flesh was both God and man, that He was born of a virgin
and that He lived a sinless life, in which He taught and wrought mighty works and wonders
and signs exactly as revealed in the four Gospels, that He was crucified, died as a
penalty for our sins and was raised from the dead bodily on the third day. Later, He
ascended to the Father's right hand where He is head of the church and intercedes for
believers, and from whence He is coming again personally, bodily, visibly to this earth to
set up his kingdom.
- We believe that in His death, by His shed blood, the Lord Jesus Christ made a perfect
atonement for sin. People are saved and justified through repentance of sin and faith in
Jesus, who was crucified, buried, and raised from the dead.
- We believe that salvation with its forgiveness of sins, its impartation of a new nature,
and its hope of eternal life, is entirely apart from good works, baptism, church
membership - or man's effort - and is of pure grace.
- We believe a true believer is eternally secure, that he cannot lose his salvation, but
that sin may interrupt the joy of his fellowship with God and bring the loving discipline
of His heavenly Father.
- We believe all who receive Christ become joint-heirs with Christ; at death, their
spirits depart to be with Christ in conscious blessedness; and at the Rapture their bodies
will be raised to the likeness of the body of His glory and dwell forever in His divine
presence.
- We believe it is the goal of every Christian to grow in spiritual maturity through
obedience to the Word of God and the control of His Spirit.
- We believe the Holy Spirit is a person, is God and possesses all the divine attributes.
He indwells all believers, baptizes and seals all believers at the moment of their
salvation and fills them in response to confession of sin and yieldedness.
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