1. We believe the Bible (the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments) is the Word
of God, written. As a "God-breathed" revelation, it is thus verbally inspired
and completely without error in its original writings.
2. We believe the world and everything in it is the creation of God.
3. We believe in one infinitely perfect, eternal and personal God, the
transcendent Creator and sovereign Sustainer of the universe.
4. We believe that Jesus Christ is both true God (the second Person of the
Trinity) and true man (the Incarnate Son of God).
5. We believe in the great events surrounding Jesus Christ's life and ministry,
including: His eternal preexistence, His virgin birth, His attesting miracles,
His sinless life, His sacrificial death on the cross, His glorious bodily
resurrection from the dead, His ascension into heaven, and His present work in
heaven.
6. We believe that the Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Trinity, is indeed a
Divine Person, coequal with the Father and the Son. We also believe in the
ministry of the Holy Spirit in salvation, a ministry which includes anointing
and glorifying Christ, convicting men of their sin, bringing about the
regeneration of lost sinners, and indwelling believers and empowering them for
godly living and spiritual service.
7. We believe God has acted sovereignly to bridge the gap that separates people
from Himself. He sent His Son, born of a virgin, attested by miracles and by a
sinless life, to bear the full penalty for humanity's sin. Jesus Christ suffered
and died in the place of sinners, thus satisfying the Father's just wrath
against human sin, and effecting true reconciliation between God and mankind for
those who believe. In the atoning death of Christ, both God's love and God's
justice are fully manifested. The righteousness of Jesus Christ in perfectly
fulfilling the law of God has been graciously credited to all believers.
Redemption is solely a work of God's grace, received exclusively through faith
in Jesus Christ, and never by works of human merit.
8.We believe justification is a judicial act of God's grace wherein He acquits a
person of all sin and accepts that person as righteous in His sight because of
the imputed righteousness of Christ. Justification is strictly a work of God's
grace, apprehended through faith alone, and solely on the account of Christ.
9. We believe the church is the spiritual body of Jesus Christ (its Founder,
Head, and Shepherd) and that it encompasses all true believers at all times and
places. The function of the church is to carry out the Lord's expressed will
through the power of the Holy Spirit.
10. We believe the Lord Jesus Christ will return to this earth, personally,
bodily, and visibly to establish his glorious reign in a kingdom that will never
end. As the sovereign Lord, He will resurrect and judge all humanity. Those who
have received His offer of life through the Gospel will go to eternal blessings
in heaven; those who have rejected it, to eternal conscious torment in hell.
11. We believe Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation. And since Christ has
commissioned His people, the church, to go into all the world to disciple, to
baptize, and to teach everyone everywhere to obey His Word, we desire, by His
grace, to play our part in reaching the world with the Gospel of Christ.
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