1. The Holy Scriptures:

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We believe the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, to be the verbally inspired Word of God, written by men in God’s control, without error and infallible in the original manuscripts, and the final authority in faith and practice (II Timothy 3:15-17; II Peter 1:20-21; Psalm 19:7-9).  We regard this article to exclude additional revelation of any kind.

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2. The Godhead:

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We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons- Father, Son and Holy Spirit- these three being identical in essence and possessing precisely the same attributes and perfections (Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:19; II Corinthians 13:14).

 

3. God the Father:

 

We affirm the absolute sovereignty of God the Father who orders and carries out all things according to His own will and purpose for His own glory. God the Father is sovereign in creation, providence, and redemption. As Creator, God is Father to all men but He is spiritual Father only to believers. (Psalm 103:19; Psalm 135:6; Psalm 22:8; Ephesians 1:3-14; Romans 8:14; II Corinthians 6:18.)

 

4. The Person and Work of Christ:

 

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of the Father, became a man without ceasing to be God, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit, and born of a virgin, in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful man.This redemption He accomplished by voluntarily giving Himself as a sinless substitutionary sacrifice on the cross, thereby satisfying God’s righteous judgments against sin.After confirming that redemption by His bodily resurrection from the grave, He ascended to the right hand of His Father where Heintercedes on behalf of those who are His (John 1:1,2,14,18; Luke 1:34-35; Romans 3;24-26, 8:34).

 

5. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit:

 

We believe that the Holy Spirit is the divine Person that convicts the world of sin, that He brings new life to those who are spiritually dead (Regeneration), that all believers are baptized with the Holy Spirit and thus placed into the one true Church, which is the Body of Christ, that He indwells them permanently, seals them unto the day of redemption, bestows spiritual gifts upon them, and empowers them for service (John 16:7-11, 3:5-8; I Corinthians 12:7-11,13; Ephesians 4:30, 5:18; Acts 1:8).

 

Additionally, we believe, that God the Holy Spirit is sovereign in the bestowing of all His gifts for the perfecting of the saints today (1 Corinthians 12:4–11; Ephesians 4:7–12), and that speaking in tongues and the working of sign miracles in the beginning days of the church have now ceased (1 Corinthians 13:8–10; Ephesians 2:20), having fulfilled their purpose of pointing to and authenticating the apostles as revealers of divine truth (2 Corinthians 12:12; Hebrews 2:1–4). The miraculous gifts were never intended to be characteristic of the lives of believers (e.g., 1 Timothy 5:23).

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6. Mankind & His Condition:

 

We teach that man was directly and immediately created by God (Genesis 2:7) in His image and likeness (Genesis 1:26–28; 5:1; James 3:9), free of sin (Genesis 1:31) and endowed with a rational nature, intelligence, volition, and moral responsibility to God (Genesis 2:15–25).

 

We believe that mankind was created by God as either male or female, distinct sexes that are biologically defined and divinely imparted to each individual at conception (Genesis 1:27; 2:5–23; Job 3:3; Psalm 139:13–14; 1 Corinthians 11:3–15).

Attempting to confuse the two sexes is an abomination to God (Leviticus 18:22; Deuteronomy 22:5; Romans 1:26–27; 1 Corinthians 6:9–10).

 

We believe that God’s intention in the creation of man was that man should glorify God, enjoy God’s fellowship, live his life according to the will of God, and by this accomplish God’s purpose for man in the world (Isaiah 43:7; 1 Corinthians 10:31; Colossians 1:16; Revelation 4:11).

 

We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God in innocence and without sin, but that in Adam’s sin humanity fell, inherited a sinful nature, became spiritually dead and alienated from God.Man of himself is incapable of remedying his lost and depraved condition (Genesis 1:26; 3:1-24; Romans 3:10-18, 5:12; Ephesians 2:1-3).

 

7. Salvation:

 

We believe that salvation from the penalty of sin is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.It cannot be gained by any human merit, but is freely bestowed upon all the elect who put faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ at Calvary.All who trust Christ as Lord and Savior are forgiven completely of their sins, justified before God, reconciled to Him, and adopted into God’s family(Ephesians 2:8-9; 1:3-10; John 1:12).

 

8. Security, Assurance, and Responsibility:

 

We believe that all saved (the elect whom God has redeemed) are kept by His power and are thus secure in Christ forever.It is their privilege to rejoice in the assurance of their salvation. However, this assurance must not be the occasion for sin, for our Holy God cannot and will not tolerate persistent sin in those who are His.In His infinite love he corrects and disciplines them.True saving faith in Christ is expressed by a fruitful, God-pleasing life. (John 10:27-29; Romans 8:28-29; I John 5:13; Hebrews 12:6; Matthew 7:20; James 2:20).

 

9. The Church:

 

We believe that the true Church, called in Scripture the Body of Christ, is a spiritual organism into which every person who has trusted Jesus Christ for salvation has been placed by the Holy Spirit.The Scripture also teaches the establishment and continuance of local churches, groups of redeemed individuals joined together for worship, instruction from the Scripture, fellowship and service (Ephesians 1:22-23; I Corinthians 12:13; Acts 2:42, 13:1-2).

 

10. The Ordinances:

 

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ instituted two ordinances to be observed by all believers until His return- baptism and the Lord’s Supper (Communion). Their observance by believers is clearly taught in the Scripture (Matthew 28:19; I Corinthians 11:23-26).

 

11. Marriage

 

We believe that marriage is always to be between one man and one woman only.Homosexual unions and same-sex marriages, even if sanctioned by the civil authorities, are aberrations of God’s law (Genesis 1:28, 2:18; Leviticus 18:22, 20:13; Romans 1:26-27; I Corinthians 6:9-11; I Timothy1:10) and thus ungodly and not permissible; neither is it biblical, godly or permissible for a man to have more than one wife at the same time or a woman to have more than one husband at the same time (Genesis 2:24; Malachi 2:13-14; Matthew 19;4-6), nor for a couple to live together as husband and wife outside of the covenant of marriage (Hebrews 13:4).Church membership will be denied to anyone practicing the above mentioned aberrations.

 

12. The Second Coming of Jesus Christ:

 

We believe in the personal (bodily), imminent return of the Lord Jesus Christ for His Church (I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Zechariah 14:4-11; Revelation 19:11-16, 20:1-6).

 

13. The Eternal State:

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We believe at death the souls of those who are justified through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the redeemed, pass immediately into His presence and there remain in conscious bliss until the resurrection of the body at His coming for the Church, when soul and body reunited shall be forever associated with Christ in glory.  We believe the souls of the unregenerate unbelievers remain after death in conscious misery until the final judgment of the great white throne, when soul and body reunited shall be cast into the lake of fire, where they will for all eternity suffer conscious punishment (Luke 16:19-26; II Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23; II Thessalonians 1:7-9; Revelation 20:11-15).