OUR BELIEFS
We
believe that the Bible is the Word of God, supernaturally inspired,
so that it is inerrant in the original manuscripts and preserved by
God in its verbal, plenary inspiration, so that it is a divinely
authoritative standard for every age and every life.
We
believe that the Godhead exists eternally in three persons - Father,
Son and Holy Spirit - and that these three are one God.
We
believe in God as absolute and sole creator of the universe, and
that creation was by divine feat, not through evolutionary process.
We
believe that God, by His sovereign choice and out of love for men,
sent Christ into the world to save sinners.
We
believe that Jesus Christ in the flesh was both God and man, that He
was born of a virgin and that He lived a sinless life, in which He
taught and wrought mighty works and wonders and signs exactly as
revealed in the four Gospels, that He was crucified, died as a
penalty for our sins and was raised from the dead bodily on the
third day. Later, He ascended to the Father's right hand where
He is head of the church and intercedes for believers, and from
whence He is coming again personally, bodily, visibly to this earth
to set up His millennial kingdom.
We
believe that since in His death, by His shed blood, the Lord Jesus
Christ made a perfect atonement for sin, redeeming us from the curse
of the law by becoming a curse for us - men are saved and justified
on the simple and single ground of the shed blood.
We
believe that such salvation with its forgiveness of sins, its
impartation of a new nature and its promise of eternal life, is
acquired by faith and is entirely apart from good works, baptism,
church membership, or man's effort. Salvation is of pure grace which
is, itself, a gift of God.
We
believe that a true believer is eternally secure, that he cannot
lose his salvation, but that sin may interrupt the joy of his
fellowship with God and bring the loving discipline of the Heavenly
Father.
We
believe that all who receive Christ become joint-heirs with Christ;
at death, their spirits depart to be with Christ in conscious
blessedness; and at the rapture their bodies will be raised to the
likeness of the body of His glory and dwell forever in divine
presence.
We
believe that it is the goal of every Christian to grow in spiritual
maturity through obedience to the Word of God and the indwelling
Spirit.
We
believe that the Holy Spirit is a person, is God and possesses all
the divine attributes. He indwells all believers, baptizes and
seals all believers at the moment of their salvation, and fills them
in response to confession of sin and yieldedness.
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