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We believe in the Holy Scriptures, accepting fully the writings of the Old and
New Testaments as the very Word of God, verbally inspired in all parts and sufficient
in themselves as our only infallible rule of faith and practice.
We believe
in the one Triune God, who is personal, spirit, sovereign, self-existent,
and self-revealing in three distinct persons: The Father, The Son,
and The Holy Spirit.
We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son, our Great God and
Savior; that without any essential change in His divine Person, He became man
by the miracle of the Virgin Birth, thus to continue forever as both God and true
man; that He gave Himself in death upon the cross, bearing there the sin of the
world; that He rose from the dead; and that as our Great High Priest, He ascended
into heaven to be an Advocate and Intercessor for all who believe.
We
believe that man was the direct creation of God and that by personal disobedience
to the revealed will of God, man became a sinful creature and the progenitor of
a fallen race, which is universally sinful in both nature and practice.
We believe that salvation is the free gift of God, neither merited nor secured
by work of man but received only by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Those
who have received Christ then possess the gift of eternal life, sonship in the
family of God, deliverance and security from all condemnation.
We believe
in the Second Coming of Christ, that His return will be personal,
visible, premillennial, and glorious, and that the time is always
imminent.
We believe
that the spirits of the saved at death go immediately to be with Christ, their
bodies waiting for the resurrection at the Second Coming of Christ. The spirits
of the unsaved are separated from God and experience punishment until the final
day of judgment at which time their bodies shall be raised to be judged according
to their works and be separated from God forever, experiencing everlasting punishment.
We believe that the Church is the spiritual body of believers in Christ
and should walk separate from the ways of this world, assembling themselves
together in local churches for worship, fellowship, teaching, and
observance of the ordinances of baptism by immersion and the Lord's
Supper. |