We believe the Holy Scriptures to be the verbally inspired Word of God, authoritative, inerrant, and God-breathed. (II Timothy 3:16-17; II Peter 1:20-21; John 16:12-13)
2. THE GODHEAD
We believe in one triune God, existing in three Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, eternal in being, identical in nature, equal in power and glory and having the same attributes and perfections. (Deuteronomy 6:4; II Corinthians 13:14)
3. THE TOTAL DEPRAVITY OF MAN
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God but that in Adam's sin the race fell, inherited a sinful nature, became alienated from God, and is totally unable to retrieve his lost condition. (Genesis 1:26-27; Romans 3:22-23; Ephesians 2:12)
4. THE PERSON AND WORK OF CHRIST
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man without ceasing to be God, having been conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful man; that He accomplished our redemption through His death on the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice; that our redemption is made sure to us by His literal resurrection from the dead (John 1:1-2; Luke 1:35; Romans 3:24-25; 4:25; I Peter 1:3-5); that the Lord Jesus Christ is now in heaven, exalted at the right hand of God, where as the High Priest for His people, He fulfills the ministry of Representative, Intercessor, and Advocate. (Hebrews 9:24; 7:25; Romans 8:34; I John 2:1-2)
5. THE PERSONALITY AND WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
We believe that the Holy Spirit is a person who convicts the world of sin, indwells all believers in the present age, baptizes them into the body of Christ, seals them unto the day of redemption, and that it is duty of every believer to be filled with the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:9; I Corinthians 12:12-14; Ephesians 1:13-14; 5:18). We believe that speaking in tongues was never the common or necessary sign of the baptism nor of the filling of the Spirit, and that the deliverance of the body from sickness or death awaits the consummation of our salvation in the resurrection. (Acts 4:8; Romans 8:23; I Corinthians 13:8)
6. SALVATION
We believe that salvation is the gift of God brought to man by grace and received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ Whose precious blood was shed for the forgiveness of our sins. (Ephesians 2:8-9; John 1:12; Ephesians 1:7)
7. THE ETERNAL SECURITY OF BELIEVERS
We believe that all believers are kept secure forever. (Romans 8:1,38-39; John 10:27-30; I Corinthians 1:4-8)
8. THE CHURCH
We believe that the Church, which is the body and bride of Christ, is a spiritual organism made up of all born-again persons of this present age, irrespective of their affiliation with Christian organizations. (Ephesians 1:22-23; 5:25-27; I Corinthians 12:12-14)
9. THE PERSONALITY OF SATAN
We believe in the personality of Satan, who is the open and declared enemy of God and man. (Job 1:6-7; Matthew 4:2-11; Isaiah 14:12-17)
10. THE RAPTURE
We believe that the next great event in the fulfillment of prophecy will be the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ and believers who are alive at His coming, otherwise known as the rapture and translation of the Church. (I Corinthians 15:51-57; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Titas 2:11-14)
11. THE TRIBULATION
We believe that the rapture of the Church will be followed by the fulfillment of Israel's seventieth week, the great tribulation. (Daniel 9:27; Jeremiah 30:7; Matthew 24:15-21; Revelation 6:1-19;21)
12. THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST
We believe that the great tribulation will be climaxed by the (premillenial) return of the Lord Jesus Christ to earth to set up His Kingdom. (Zechariah 14:4-11; Matthew 24:15-25;46; II Thessalonians 1:7-10; Revelation 20:6)
13. THE ETERNAL STATE
We believe that the souls of those who have trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation do, at death, immediately pass into His presence and there remain in conscious bliss until the resurrection of the body at His coming, when soul and body reunited shall be associated with Him forever in the glory; but the souls of unbelievers remain, after death, in conscious misery until the final judgement of the great white throne at the close of the millenium, when soul and body reunited shall be cast into the lake of fire, not to be annihilated, but to be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power. (Luke 16:19-26; 23:43; II Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23; II Thessalonians 1:7-9; Jude verses 6-7; Revelation 20:11-15)
14. THE RESPONSIBILITY OF BELIEVERS
We believe that all believers should seek to walk in such manner as not to bring reproach upon their Lord and Saviour and that separation from worldly practices is commanded of God (Romans 12:1-2; 14:13; II Corinthians 6:14-7:1); that it is the obligation of every believer to witness by life and by word to the truths of Holy Scriptures and to seek to proclaim the Gospel to all the world (Acts 1:8); that is is the responsibility of all believers to remember the work of the Lord in prayer and to support it with their means as the Lord has prospered them. (I Corinthians 16:1)
14. CHURCH ORDINANCES
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ instituted the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper to be observed until His return. (Matthew 28:19-20; I Corinthians 11:23-26)
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