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What We Believe
- The Bible is the Word of God, supernaturally inspired. It is inerrant in the original manuscripts and preserved by God. It is divinely authoritative and the standard for every age and every life.
- The Godhead exists eternally in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - and that these three are one God. God is absolute and sole Creator of the universe. Creation was by divine feat and not through evolutionary process.
- 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 works and wonders and signs exactly as revealed in the four Gospels. Jesus 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. Jesus is coming again personally, bodily, and visibly to this earth to set up His millennial kingdom.
- 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. He fills them in response to confession of sin and yieldedness.
- Redemption through Jesus' shed blood and death made a perfect atonement for sin. Jesus redeemed 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.
- Salvation with its forgiveness of sins, impartation of a new nature, and hope (assurance) for eternal life is entirely apart from good works, baptism, church membership, or man's effort and is of pure grace.
- Eternal Security for the true believer means that he/she cannot lose his/her salvation. But, sin may interrupt the joy of his/her fellowship with God and bring the loving discipline of his/her heavenly Father.
- Joint Heirs with Christ for those who have received Christ. At physical death their spirits depart to be with Christ in conscious blessedness. At the rapture their bodies will be raised up to the likeness of the body of His glory and dwell there forever in His divine presence.
- The Ordinances of the Church are Believer's Baptism, and the Lord's Supper.
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