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We believe in one God, eternally existent as God the Father, God the Son and God
the Holy Spirit.
We believe that the Bible, composed of the Old and New Testaments, is God's
inspired and infallible Word, and is the supreme standard and final
authority for all conduct, faith, and doctrine.
We believe
in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless
life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death, in His bodily
resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His
personal return in power and glory.
We believe that man was
created in the image of God, but by willful transgression became sinful
and is justly under the condemnation and wrath of Almighty God.
We believe that the only
salvation from this guilt and condemnation is through faith in the
righteousness and atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that this
salvation is the free gift of God's love and grace.
We believe in the
personality of the Holy Spirit and that His ministry is to reveal Christ
to men, to convict of sin, to regenerate repentant sinners and, by His
presence and power, to sanctify the lives of the redeemed.
We believe that the Lord
Jesus Christ instituted the ordinances of baptism and communion; baptism
is only to be administered upon profession of faith in Christ, by
immersion, thereby declaring our faith in a crucified, buried and risen
Savior, that communion is only for believers, to be preceded by faithful
self-examination, and is in remembrance of the Lord's death until He
comes.
We believe that a New
Testament church is a body of believers, baptized by immersion, associated
for worship, service, and to spread the gospel of the grace of God to all
the world.
We believe that there
will be a resurrection of the just and the unjust, the just, having been
redeemed by the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, to be with Him
throughout eternity in glory, the unjust, having died impenitent and
unreconciled to God, to eternal condemnation in hell.
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