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      Statement of Faith

THE BIBLE: We believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the inspired Word of God, inerrant in the original writings, complete as the revelation of God’s will for salvation, and the supreme and final authority in all matters to which they speak.  


GOD: We believe in one God, Creator and Sustainer of all things, eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, that these are equal in every divine perfection and that they execute distinct but harmonious offices in the work of creation, providence, and redemption.  


THE FATHER: We believe in God the Father, infinite, perfect in holiness, wisdom, power and love.  We believe He concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of men, that He hears and answers prayer, and that He saves from sin and death all who come to Him through Jesus Christ. 


THE SON: We believe that Jesus Christ is God’s eternal Son, and has precisely the same nature, attributes, and perfections as God the Father and God the Holy Spirit.  We believe further that He is not only true God, but true man, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.  We also believe in His sinless life, His substitutionary atonement, His bodily resurrection from the dead, His ascension into heaven, His priestly intercession on behalf of his people and His personal, visible, imminent return from heaven. 


THE HOLY SPIRIT: We believe in the Holy Spirit, His personality, and His work in regeneration, sanctification, and preservation.  His ministry is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ, and implement Christ’s work of redeeming the lost and empowering the believer for Godly living and service. 


MAN: We believe God created man, male and female, in the image of God and free from sin.  We believe Adam and Eve were made to complement each other in a ‘one flesh’ union that establishes the only pattern of sexual relations for men and women, and God’s only ordained design for marriage. We believe that human life is created by God in His image. It is of inestimable worth and significance in all its dimensions, including the pre-born, the aged, the physically or mentally challenged, and every other condition in which humanness is expressed, from the single-cell stage of development to natural death. Christians are therefore called to defend, protect, and value all human life. We further believe man is a sinner by nature and choice and is therefore spiritually separated from God.  We also believe that those who repent of sin and trust Jesus Christ as Savior have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit. 


SALVATION: We believe in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.  We further believe that this salvation is based upon the sovereign grace of God, and was purchased by Christ on the cross, and is received by man through faith, apart from any human works. 


THE CHURCH: We believe that the church is the spiritual body of which Christ is the Head.  We believe that the true Church is composed of all persons who through saving faith in Jesus Christ have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit.  We believe that this body expresses itself in local assemblies whose members have been baptized by the Spirit and have expressed a credible confession of faith in Jesus Christ and have associated themselves for worship, for instruction, evangelism, and service.  We believe the ordinances of this local church are baptism by immersion and the Lord’s Supper.  We also believe in the interdependence of local churches and the mutual submission of believers to each other in love.  


CHRISTIAN CONDUCT: We believe that every true Christian desires to live for the glory of God and the well-being of his fellow men; that he yearns for his conduct to be blameless before the world; that he would be a faithful steward of his possessions; and that he would seek to realize for himself and others the full stature of Christian maturity in Christ. We believe this is only possible by the grace of God through a faith that depends on the Holy Spirit’s power. We believe that, while not condoning or endorsing sinful choices or lifestyles (as defined by Scripture), we, as sinners ourselves, are called to love other sinful people, and welcome their presence in our service, just as Christ came not to condemn, but to save sinners. So it is not our mission to judge the world, but to seek their salvation and transformation in Christ. 


THE ORDINANCES: We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ has committed two ordinances to the local church: 1) baptism and 2) the Lord's Supper. We believe that Christian baptism is the immersion of the believer in water into the name of the triune God. We believe that the Lord's Supper was instituted by Christ for commemoration of His death. We believe that these two ordinances should be observed and administered until the return of the Lord Jesus Christ. 


THE FUTURE: We believe in the bodily resurrection of the saved and lost, the eternal existence of all people either in heaven or hell, in divine judgments, rewards and punishments. 

 

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