Statement of Faith
(Abbreviated)
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We
believe that the Holy Bible was written by men supernaturally inspired.
That every word is true and unchanging. |
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We
believe that there is one and only one living true God and that in the
unity of the Godhead there are three persons, the Father, the Son and
the Holy Spirit. |
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We
believe in the Genesis account of creation, that it is to be accepted
literally not figuratively or allegorically. |
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We
believe that man was created in innocence but fell from his sinless
state by his own voluntary transgression and in consequence all mankind
are now sinners. |
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We
believe that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Holy Spirit in a miraculous
manner and born of Mary, a virgin, and that He is both the Son of God
and God the Son. |
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We
believe that the salvation of sinners is wholly of grace and not of
works through the sacrifice of the sinless Son of God, Jesus Christ
who was crucified on the cross in substition for our sins. |
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We believe that Jesus rose bodily from the
grave on the third day according to the scriptures; that he was later
taken up to heaven bodily, personally and visibly and that he will come
again in like manner. |
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We
believe that salvation is a free gift available to all by the gospel,
that once accepted by repentence and faith it cannot be lost. |
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We
believe that in order to be saved; sinners must be born again and that
the sinner becomes a new creation in Christ Jesus. |
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We
believe that the Holy Spirit comes to dwell in the believer at the time
of salvation. |
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We
believe that Christian baptism is the immersion in water of a believer
in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit to illustrate the death,
burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the spiritual death of the
believer to the power of sin and resurrection to a new life. |
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We
believe that the Lord's Supper is the sacred use of bread and the fruit
of the vine to commemorate the death of Christ, partaken by members
of the church after solemn self-examination. |
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We
believe that believers are commanded to give the gospel to the world
to bring other sinners to salvation, baptism and discipleship. |