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We believe that there is one God, the source, support and end of all things, eternally existent in three Persons (which the Bible refers to as His “Image”): Father, Son and Holy Spirit. They are the same substance but distinct in subsistence and are the same in attributes, power, characteristics, desires and purpose.
We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God, and that He has preserved it for the English-speaking world in the Authorized Version of 1611, the King James Bible. We therefore conclude that the King James translation is unequivocally the inspired, inerrant and infallible Word of God.
We believe the Genesis account of creation, and that what you believe about your origin will determine your philosophy of life. We believe creation was a direct act of God, which included literal days, and it was instantaneous and miraculous. We believe man was created in the image of God (a 3-Fold being: a Body, a Soul, and a Spirit.)
We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death, His shed blood, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the Father’s right hand, and His personal, pretribulational, premillennial return for His saints at the rapture, and His personal return with his saints at the Revelation.
We believe Satan is a person, in his power and kingdom, in his wiles and in his judgment at the cross and his eventual eternal torment in the Lake of Fire.
We believe that man is totally depraved, a sinner both by nature and practice, therefore estranged from God, totally lost and in need of the convicting and regenerating ministry of the Holy Spirit - a born again experience.
We believe in the deity and present ministry of the Holy Spirit, that He convicts the sinner, regenerates the one who believes, indwells, seals, instructs, reproves and guides the believer, that He fills and controls every life that is wholly yielded to Him. .
We believe that salvation is the free gift of God offered to man by His grace and received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, plus nothing. Jesus satisfied the law, becoming our accepted substitute. His righteousness, or His right doing, is imputed to us by faith.
We believe in the eternal security of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. When a person is born again they have everlasting life, which never ends, and cannot be taken away from them. Saved forever, God’s children are kept by the power of God through faith unto eternal salvation and sealed unto the day of redemption.
We believe in the bodily resurrection of the saved unto "life" and the unsaved unto "judgment" and everlasting damnation.
We believe that Heaven, Hell, and the Lake of Fire are real, literal, and physical places. Heaven is a place of indescribable beauty and glory. Hell is a place of indescribable spiritual torment and punishment before the Last Judgment Day. The Lake of Fire is a place of torment of the Body, the Soul, and the Spirit after the Last Judgment Day. Throughout all eternity Heaven is the final eternal dwelling place of the saved, and the Lake of Fire is the final eternal dwelling place for those who rejected Christ’s atonement in this life.
We believe in the spiritual unity of truly Born-again believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, not in the organized unity sought by the ‘ecumenical movement’.
We believe that a scriptural church is a visible, local, assembly of baptized believers, covenanted together under New Testament law for the purpose of carrying out the Great Commission, with an unbroken history from the personal ministry of Jesus on earth to this present day. Such a chuch will have ...
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On all matters concerning membership, policy, government, discipline, or benevolence, etc., the will of the local church is final.
We believe that the ‘Great Commission’ to evangelize the world was given to the church by our risen Lord and that this evangelization is the primary mission of the church. The Great Commission was given to the local church who was commanded to "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.." Christ commanded His church to "teach all nations, baptizing them in the .name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."
We believe in and practice separation on the basis of the Word of God. We believe that sanctification is a personal separation from things that are unclean to things that are holy, clean, and sacred.
Sanctification is a progressive work that is begun in regeneration and carried on in the hearts of the believers by the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. The sanctification of the believer will be only be fully complete at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Then, and only then, will we have entire sanctification or be wholly sanctified.
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