Doctrinal Statement of Faith

1. The Scriptures
   We believe in the authority and sufficiency of the Word of God, consisting of the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, as originally written; that it was verbally and plenarily inspired and is the product of Spirit-controlled men, and therefore is infallible and inerrant in all matters of which it speaks.
   We believe the Bible to be the true center of Christian unity and the supreme  standard by which all human conduct, creed, and opinions shall be tried. (II Timothy 3:16-17; II Peter 1:19-21; Isaiah 40:8; I Peter 1:24-25a)
2. The True God
   We believe there is one and only one living and true God, an infinite Spirit, the Maker and supreme Ruler of heaven and earth; inexpressibly glorious in holiness, and worthy of all possible honor, confidence, and love, that in the unity of the Godhead there are three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, equal in every divine perfection and executing distinct but harmonious offices in the great work of redemption. (Exodus 20:2-3; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Revelation 4:11)
   a. God the Father
   We believe that God is an eternal person, having no beginning and no ending, and that He is Creator of all, infinite and infallible. John 4:24, Luke 3:22
   b. God the Son
   We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and God the Son. We believe that: He is the only Savior of mankind, Acts 4:12; He is God incarnate in human flesh, Romans 8:3; He is Very God of Very God, for whom and by whom all things were created, Colossians 1:16; He is the mediator between God and men, 1 Timothy 2:5; We believe in His virgin birth, His holy sinless life, His vicarious death and bodily resurrection, John 3:16, John 1:13, Hebrews 1:8, Colossians 1:15-19.
   c. God the Holy Spirit
   We believe that the Holy Spirit is Very God of Very God, Acts 5:3-4; that He baptizes all believers into the body of Christ, I1 Corinthians 12:13; that He indwells all believers, Romans 8:9; that He fills the obedient and is the believer's guide into the truth, John 16:7-15; and that He furnishes the gifts of the Spirit for the edifying of the body of Christ. We believe the Sign Gifts, Matthew 10:8, Mark 16;17-18, and the Revelatory Gifts, 1 Corinthians 13:8-10, were temporary and are no longer given by the Holy Spirit.
3. Salvation
   We believe that the salvation of sinners is divinely initiated and wholly of grace. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who by the appointment of the Father, voluntarily took upon Himself our nature, yet without sin, thus qualifying Himself to be our Savior, that by the shedding of His blood in His death He fully satisfied the just demands of a holy and righteous God. His sacrifice consisted not in setting us an example by His death as a martyr, but was a voluntary substitution of Himself in the sinner's place, that Just dying for the unjust, Christ the Lord bearing our sins in His own body on the tree. We believe that faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the only condition of salvation. (Ephesians 2:8; Acts 15:11; Romans 3:24-25; John 3:16; Philippians 2:7-8; Hebrews 2:14-17; Isaiah 53:4-7; 1 John 4:10; 1 Corinthians 15:3; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:24)
4. The Resurrection of Christ
   We believe in the bodily resurrection of Christ and in His ascension into heaven where He now sits at the right hand of God the Father as our High Priest interceding for us (Matthew 28:6-7; Luke 24:39; John 20:27; 1 Corinthians 15:4; Mark 16:6; Luke 24:2-6; Acts 1:9-11; Revelation 3:21; Hebrews 8:6,12:2,7:25; 1 Timothy 2:5; 1 John 2:1; Hebrews 2:17, 5:9-10)
5. The Devil or Satan
   We believe in the reality and personality of Satan, the Devil; that he was created by God as an angel but through pride and rebellion became the enemy of his creator; that he became the unholy god of this age, the ruler of all powers of darkness and is destined to the judgment of an eternal justice in the lake of fire. (Matthew 4:1-11; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Revelation 20:10)
6. Creation
   We believe the biblical account of the creation of the physical universe, angels, and man; that this account is neither allegory nor myth, but a literal, historical account of the direct, immediate, creative acts of God without any evolutionary process; that man was created by a direct work of God and not from previously existing forms of life; and that a;; men are descended from the historical Adam and Eve, first parents of the entire human race. (Genesis 1-2; Colossians 1:16-17; John 1:3)
7. The Fall of Man
   We believe that man was created in innocence (in the image and likeness of God) under law of His Maker, but by voluntary transgression Adam fell from his sinless state, and all men sinned in him, in consequence of which all men are totally deprived, are partakers of Adam's fallen nature, and are sinners by nature and by conduct, and therefore are under just condemnation without defense or excuse. (Genesis 3:1-6; Romans 3:10-19, 5:12,19, 1:18, 32)
8. Heaven and Hell
   We believe that Heaven is a place prepared for all born-again believers, John 14:1-6. We believe also that Hell is a place prepared for the devil and his angels, Matthew 25:41, and those who die in unbelief, Luke 16:19-31, Revelation 21:8.
9. Baptism and Communion
   We believe that baptism by immersion is the only Scriptural mode. We believe that baptism does not save. It is an act of obedience to the command of Christ and is a testimony to the world of the believer's faith in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Romans 6:1-5, Matthew 28:19-20.
   We believe  that communion (the Lord's Supper) is a symbolic ordinance, picturing Christ's body broken for our sins and His blood shed for our redemption. It is not a saving ordinance, but helps us remember His death, and inspires us while looking forward to His coming. 1 Corinthians 11:23-24. It is to be observed by regenerate, obedient believers.
10. Eternal Security
    We believe that once a person is born again, he cannot lose his salvation, that he is eternally secure in the Lord Jesus Christ. John10:27-29, Romans 8:38-29, Colossians 3:3, Ephesians 4:30.
11. The Church
    We believe in the second coming of Christ; that His return from Heaven will be personal, visible, and glorious, the time being unrevealed but always imminent; that when He comes He will remove from the earth His Church, then pour out the righteous judgments of God upon the unbelieving world, afterwards descent with His Church and establish His glorious and literal kingdom over all the nations for His Church and establish His glorious and literal kingdom over all the nations for a thousand years. John 14:3, Acts 1:1, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, Revelation 20.
12. Resurrection and Future Events
    We believe in the premilliennial return of Christ, an event which can occur at any moment, that at that moment the dead in Christ shall be raised in glorified bodies, all the living in Christ shall be given glorified bodies without tasting death, and shall be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air before the seven years of the tribulation. (1 Thessalonians 4:13-19, 1 Corinthians 15:42-44, 52-54, Philemon 3:20-21)
    We believe that the tribulations, which follow the Rapture of the Church will be culminated by the revelation of Christ in power and great glory to sit upon the throne of David, and to establish the millennial kingdom (Daniel:25-27; Matthew 24:29-31; Luke 1:30-33; Isaiah 9:6-7, 11:1-9; Acts 2:29-30; Revelation 20:1-4,6)

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