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We believe the Old and New Testaments are verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writings, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life.
We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We believe the eternal Son of God was born of the Virgin Mary, and is fully God and fully Man. We believe that man was created in the image of God by His direct act and not from previously existing forms of life, and that all men are descended from the historical Adam and Eve who were the first parents of the entire human race; and that man sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature and become sinners in thought, word and deed. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice; and that all who believe in Him are justified by His blood sacrifice which alone, atones for the sins of mankind. We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord and His ascension into Heaven; and in His present life there for us as High Priest and Advocate. We believe in the “blessed hope”, the personal and imminent return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We believe that all who receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith are born again (regenerated) by the Holy Spirit, and thereby become the children of God; and that they are thereafter indwelt by the Holy Spirit who makes possible a life of personal holiness and obedience to the will of God; as we seek to die to sin and the flesh (as defined in the Bible), while wanting to honor Christ and His Word, looking to Him to give us the grace to become more like Jesus. We believe that all who are born again are “kept by the power of God” and therefore, are incapable of losing their salvation. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost. We believe that the local church is a body of believers organized for worship, work and fellowship; that the two ordinances of the church are baptism and the Lord’s Supper, that the local church is an independent and self-governed body responsible to Christ alone, who is its Head, Savior and Lord. |
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