Statement of Faith

 

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1.)  Scripture: We believe that the Bible, Old and New Testaments, is the infallible, inerrant Word of God in the original manuscripts and is our standard of faith and practice.

2.)  God: We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, who exists and is manifest to man from nature, man, the Bible and through His Son, Jesus Christ.

3.)  Jesus Christ: We believe that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man, born of a virgin.  He is the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy.  He was crucified, buried, and rose again.  He is the first fruits of His resurrection, and we will be like Him in our resurrection.  He is with the Father presently, making intercession for His children.  He lives in Christians and is coming again.   He will reign on earth with His saints in future times.

4.)  The Holy Spirit: We believe the Holy Spirit is wholly God and is a divine person.  He lives in regenerated persons who have trusted the Lord Jesus Christ by faith, and guides them in all truth. He places each believer into the body of Christ, the church, and equips them for ministry with gifts of the Spirit.   Sign gifts were given in apostolic times and are no longer given as we have the completed revelation of God in Holy Scripture.

5.)  Man: We believe man was created in the image of God to bring Him glory.   Man has a material and immaterial part.  When God created man, He gave him the ability to obey and disobey God. When Adam chose to disobey God, man fell and took on a sin nature to be passed on to future generations.

6.)  Sin: We believe that sin is anything that does not conform to the glory of God.  The result of sin is death, and man is separated from God.  There is the sin nature of man, which is passed to man from Adam, and personal sin which man commits daily against a Holy God, and can be forgiven when confessed and forsaken.

7.)  Salvation: We believe God provided the perfect sacrifice, once and for all, for our sin through the blood of His Son, Jesus Christ.   His sacrifice satisfied God's just nature for the penalty due Him for sin against a holy and loving Father.  Those who are saved through faith cannot lose their salvation.

8.)  The Church: We believe the church is made up of "born again" believers of the Lord Jesus Christ. The church is both universal, those who become Christians from Pentecost until the rapture, and the local church.   The local church is an organized, group of     believers in a town or city for the purpose of grounding and maturing its members in the Word of God, for observing the ordinances of the church, which are baptism and the Lord's Supper, and to carry out the great commission, to bring glory to God.

9.)  The Blessed Hope: We believe in a future destination and judgment for all believers and unbelievers, living and dead.   We believe in a premillennial return of Christ and a pretribulational rapture of saints and a 1000 year reign of Christ on earth.    Heaven and hell are real.