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Doctrinal Statement
1. We believe in the verbal, plenary inspiration of both the Old and New Testaments. For example, the very words of the original Scriptures are inerrant and they are our final and absolute authority in every area of life and knowledge. (II Timothy 3:16-17, I Peter 1:23-25, Hebrews 4:12)
2.
We believe in one God, eternally existing in three
co-equal persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Matthew
28:19, I John 5:7)
3.
We believe that Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy
Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and that He is both
undiminished deity and genuine humanity in one person
forever. (Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:23, Luke 1:27)
4. We
believe that God the Holy Spirit is a personal being who
convicts the world of sin and who regenerates, indwells,
empowers, guides, and bestows spiritual gifts on
believers. (Luke 24:40, Acts 1:4-8, Acts 15:7-9, I
Corinthians 12:1-31)
5.
We believe that man was created by a direct act of God
in His image, not from previously existing life, that
all men sinned in Adam (the historical father of the
entire human race) and thus incurred both physical and
spiritual death; and that all men/women have inherited a
sinful nature. (Genesis 1:26-31, Romans 5:12-21)
6.
We believe that Jesus Christ died as a substitutional
sacrifice for our sins and that, through faith in Him as
Lord and Savior, we are declared righteous by God and
are eternally secure in Christ as long as we remain
faithful to Him. (Psalm 103:3, Romans 3:24, Ephesians
2:8)
7.
We believe that salvation is by grace through faith in
Jesus Christ, totally apart from human merit, and that
the experience of regeneration produces a new creature
in Christ. (John 13:35, Romans 8:16, I John 3:23)
8.
We believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead –
physically – and that He ascended in like form into
heaven, where He continually ministers as our Great High
Priest and Advocate. (Matthew 28:5-10, Luke 24, John 20,
I John 2:1)
9.
We believe that this age will be consummated by the
literal, visible, bodily return of Jesus Christ to this
earth. (Acts 1:10-11, I Thessalonians 4:16-17)
10.
We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and
the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved,
and the everlasting punishment of the lost. (I
Thessalonians 4:13-18, Revelations 20:11-15)
11.
We believe that all believers are under the mandate of
Jesus to proclaim the gospel to the entire world.
(Matthew 28:18-20, Mark 16:15, Ephesians 4:11-13)