We
believe that the Bible is the word of God; verbally inspired by
God and inerrant in the original writings and that they are of supreme
and final authority in faith and practice.
We
believe in the Almighty God, His son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.
We
believe that man was created in the image of God and that he sinned,
thereby incurring not only physical death but also spiritual death
which is separation from God, which separation has been transmitted
to the entire race of man, the man Christ Jesus alone excepted;
hence every child of Adam is born into the world with a sinful nature.
We
believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born
of virgin Mary-true God and true man.
We
believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to
the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary Savior and
that men are justified on the ground to the shed blood of the Son
of God. All such are born again by the Spirit of God and thereby
become children of God and joint-heirs.
We
believe that it is the privilege of all who are born again by the
Spirit through faith in Christ, and as revealed in the Scriptures,
to be assured of their salvation, and that he or she thus regenerated
is eternally secure.
We
believe that the sanctification of a believer is an ongoing process
performed by the Holy Spirit. The believer is being continuously
sanctified with the constant washing by the Word, faith in the blood
of Christ, and the in-working presence and power of the Holy Spirit.
We
believe that all the saved should live in such a manner as not to
bring reproach upon their Savior and Lord; and, that separation
from all religious apostasy, all sinful pleasures, practices and
associations in commanded of God.
We
believe that our Lord and Savior clearly prescribed for His believing
disciples the rites of Baptism by immersion and the Lord's Table;
the one as a symbol and proclamation of the sinner's death to be
kept by His disciples until He comes again, according to His promise
and Father's revealed plan.
We
believe in that "Blessed Hope," which is the imminent
return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We
believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead according to the Scriptures
in bodily form, and thus became the first-fruits of them that sleep;
that He ascended into the Heavens as our High Priest and Advocate;
that upon His return He will raise out from among the dead those
that have died in Christ.
We
believe in the eternal blessedness of the saved and the eternal
punishment of the lost.
We
believe the purpose of the church involves the preaching of the
Gospel to every creature and the edification of the individual members
of the Body of Christ
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