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Section I. Of the Scriptures
We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the verbal, plenary inspired Word of God and the product of Spirit-controlled men. It is the final authority for faith and life, inerrant in the original autographs, infallible, and God-breathed. II Timothy 3:16,17; Psalm 119:89,152,160; II Peter 1:19-21. Section II. Of the True God
We believe in one and only one God, an infinite, intelligent Spirit, the Maker and Supreme Ruler of heaven and earth; that He is inexpressibly glorious in holiness and worthy of all possible honor, confidence and love, that the unity of the Godhead is divine perfection and executing distinct but harmonious offices in the great work of redemption. Exodus 15:11; Mark 12:30; Genesis 1:1,2; I John 1:3; Exodus 20:2; I Corinthians 8:6; Revelation 4:11. Section III. Of the Virgin Birth
We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Holy Spirit in a miraculous manner; that He was born of the virgin Mary, and that He is both the sinless Son of God and God the Son. Matthew 1:18-25; II Corinthians 5:21; John 1:14; 3:16. Section IV. Of the Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit is a divine person, equal with God the Father and God the Son and of the same nature; that He was active in the creation; that in His relation to the unbelieving world He restrains the Evil One until God's purpose is fulfilled; that He convicts of sin, of righteousness and of judgment; that He bears witness to the truth of the Gospel in preaching and testimony; that He is the Agent in the new birth; that He seals, guides, teaches, witnesses, sanctifies and helps the believer; that the sign gifts ended with the closing of the Canon. John 14:16, 17; Matthew 29:19; Hebrews 9:14; John 14:26; Luke 1:35; Genesis 1:1-3; John 16:8-11; Acts 5:30-32; John 3:5,6; Ephesians 1:13-14; Mark 1:8; John 1:33; Acts 11:16; Luke 24:49; Romans 8:14, 16, 26, 27; II Thessalonians 2:7, 8; I Corinthians 13:4-10. Section V. Of the Devil, or Satan
We believe in the personality of Satan, man's greatest tempter, and that he is the unholy god of this age, and the author of all the powers of darkness and is destined to the judgment of an eternal justice in the Lake of Fire. Matthew 4:1-3; II Corinthians 4:4; Revelation 20:10; Job 1:6,7; John 8:44. Section VI. Creation
We believe in the Genesis account of creation and that this account is to be accepted as a literal fact. This includes 24-hour days and man's instantaneous creation and not evolution. Genesis 1-2; Colossians 1-16, 17; John 1:3. Section VII. Of the Fall of Man
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam's sin the race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God; and that man now is totally depraved and of himself, is utterly unable to remedy his lost condition. We further believe that homosexuality is a part of the sin nature and is contrary to God's Word. I Corinthians 15:22; Ephesians 2:1, 5; Colossians 2:13; Romans 3:10-19; Genesis 3:1-6; Leviticus 18:22, 20:13; Romans 1:26-28. Section VIII. Of the Atonement for Sin
We believe that salvation of sinners is wholly by grace through the shed blood of Jesus Christ as our vicarious substitute; that His atonement was the voluntary substitution of Himself, thereby satisfying God's holy law. We believe that the new birth is an instantaneous act and results in the sinner being infused with new life as a direct act of God. Ephesians 2: 8,9; Hebrews 7:26, 27; 9:12; II Corinthian. 5:17-21; Romans 3:24; Philippians 2:7; Isaiah 53:4-7; I John 4:10. Section IX. Of the Resurrection of Christ
We believe in the literal, bodily resurrection of Christ. We believe that according to His promise He will come again and that it will be personal, visible, and glorious. Acts 1:11; I Thessalonians 4:16, 17; James 5:8; John 20:27; I Corinthians 15:4, 5. Section X. Of the Invisible Church
We believe that the church, which is the body and bride of Christ, is a spiritual organism made up of all born-again persons from Pentecost to the Second Coming. Colossians 1:18. Section XI. Of the Resurrection of Men
We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life with God, and the unsaved to judgment and conscious everlasting punishment in the Lake of Fire. I Thessalonians 4:13-18; I Corinthians 15:42-54; Revelation 20:13-15. Section XII. Of Justification
We believe that the great gospel blessing which Christ secures to such as believe in Him is Justification; that Justification includes the pardon of sin, and the gift of eternal life, on principles of righteousness; and that it is bestowed not in consideration of any works of righteousness which we have done; but solely through faith in the Redeemer and His blood which was shed on Calvary, and His righteousness which He imputed to us and declares us righteous. Acts 13:39; rsaiah 53:11; Zechariah 13:1; Romans 8:1; 5:1, 9. Section XIII. Of the Security of the Saints
We believe that all who are truly born again are kept by God the Father for Jesus Christ through the sealing power of the Holy Spirit. Philippians 1:6; John 10:28, 29; Romans 8:35-39; Jude 1 (ASV). Section XIV. Of the Local Church
We believe that a local church is a congregation cf immersed believers, associated by covenant of faith and fellowship of the Gospel; observing the ordinances of Christ; governed by His laws; and exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word; that its officers are pastors and deacons, whose qualifications, claims, and duties are clearly defined in the Scriptures. We believe the true mission of the church is the faithful witnessing of Christ to all men as we have opportunity. We hold that the local church has the absolute right of self-government free from the interference of any hierarchy of individuals or organizations; and that the one and only Superintendent is Christ through the Holy Spirit; that it is Scriptural for true churches to cooperate with each other in contending for the faith and for the furtherance of the Gospel; that each local church is the sole judge of the measure and method of its cooperation, but on all matters of rnembership, of polity, of government, of discipline, of benevolence, the will of the local church is final. Acts 2:41, 42; I Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 1:22, 23; 4:11; Acts 20: 17-28; I Timothy 3:1-7; Colossians 1:18; Ephesians 5:23, 24; Acts 15:13-18. Section XV. Of Baptism and the Lord's Supper
We believe that Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water to show forth in a solemn and beautiful enblem our faith in the crucified, buried, and risen Saviour, with its effect in our death to sin and resurrection to a new life; that it is a prerequisite to the privileges of a church relation. We believe that the Lord's Supper is the commemoration of His death until He come1 and should be preceded always by a solemn self-examination. Acts 8:36-39; John 3:13; Romans 6:3-5; Matthew 3:16; Colossians 2:12; I Corinthians 11:23-26. Section XVI Of Civil Government
We believe that civil government is of divine appointment for the interests and good order of human society; that magistrates are to be prayed for, conscientiously honored and obeyed; except in things opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the only Lord of the conscience and the coming Prince of the kings of the earth. Romans 13:1-7; II Samuel 23:3; Exodus 18:21,22; Acts 23:5; Matthew 22:21; Acts 4:19,20; 5:29; Daniel 3:17,18. Section XVII Of the Last Things
We believe in the personal, imminent return of Christ for His Church. This precedes God's dealings with the nation of Israel through the literal seven years of Tribulation and the 1,000 year reign of Christ during the Millenium. After this reign, God will judge sin once and for all and set up the eternal state where there will be no sin and all will be bliss. I Thessalonians 2:5-8; Revelation chpts. 1-4; John 14:3; Acts 1.11. |
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