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DOCTRINAL BELIEFS |
- We believe that
the Bible is the complete and infallible Word of God, verbally and
literally inspired as found in the original manuscripts, and is the
supreme and final authority in all matters. (pertaining to faith and
practice.)
- II Timothy
3:16
- II PETER 1:21
- We believe in
one God eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit.
- John 14:16
- Matthew
3:16-17
- Matthew 28:19
- We believe that
Jesus Christ was begotten of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin
Mary, and that Jesus Christ is True God and True Man without sin.
- Matthew 1:20
- Luke 1:35
- John 1:1-2
- John 12:45
- John 14:9
- II Corinthians
5:21
- Hebrews 4:15
- We believe that
Jesus Christ is the one all-sufficient mediator between God and man.
- We believe in
the personality of the Holy Spirit and that His ministry is to
reveal Christ to men in the regeneration and sanctification of their
souls.
- We believe that
man was created in the image of God, and that he sinned and thereby
incurred spiritual death, which is everlasting punishment.
- We believe in
the vicarious death of the Lord Jesus Christ for our sins, and that
all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed
blood, in the resurrection of His body, His ascension into Heaven
and His personal and visible return to the earth.
- I Peter 1:19
- I Corinthians
15:3
- Acts 1:10-11
- I Peter 3:18
- I
Thessalonians 4:14-18
- II Timothy 2:8
- We believe in
the resurrection of the dead, both the just and the unjust, the
righteous going to everlasting life in glory with Christ and the
wicked to everlasting punishment.
- We believe that
salvation is the gift of God and is received and experienced only
through personal faith in Him.
- Ephesians
2:8-9
- Acts 16:31
- John 3:16,36
- John 10:28-29
- I John 5:11-12
- We Believe that the immersion of Believer in
water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Spirit is Baptism as set forth in the New Testament.
- Romans 6:1-11
- Matthew 3:13-17
- Acts 2:38
- Acts 8:36-39
- We believe that the ordinance of the Lord’s
Supper commemorates His death until He comes.
- Matthew 26:26-30
- I Corinthians 11:23-30
- We believe that each local church has the right
to be independent and autonomous and must be free from interference
by any ecclesiastical or political authority.
- Acts 6:2-3
- Acts 4:18-20
- II Corinthians 8:19
- We believe that each Christian has the privilege
and responsibility to serve and exercise their spiritual gifts for
the family of God each according to their spiritual gifts for the
betterment of each other, our church, and the (our) community at
large.
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