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Doctrinal
Statement
1. We believe that the Old
and New Testament scriptures are verbally inspired of God and inerrant
in the original writing, and that they are the supreme and final
authority in faith and life.
2. We believe in one God,
an eternal Spirit existing in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit - one in essence and equal in every divine perfection.
(Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 3:13-17; 28:19; II Corinthians 13:14)
3. We believe in the Lord
Jesus Christ as the unique and only begotten Son of God, begotten of the
Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, and we believe that He is very God
of very God and very man of very man, one Person with two natures,
divine and human. (Matthew 1:18-20; John 1:1-2, 14)
4. We believe in the
creation of man by the direct act of God, that man was made after God's
image and in a state of innocency, but that man willfully transgressed
God's law and lost communion with God, becoming dead in sin, corrupt in
nature, and incapable of pleasing God in the strength of his (man's)
flesh. (Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 3:1-24; Romans 5:12-21; Ephesians
2:1-6)
5. We believe that the
Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
accomplishing a vicarious, substitutionary atonement for all of Mankind;
and that He was buried according to the Scriptures; and that He rose
again the third day according to the scriptures; and that all who
believe on Him are justified freely on the ground of His shed blood and
are saved by grace through faith wholly apart from human merit or works.
(I Corinthians 15:3; II Corinthians 5:21; Romans 3:21-28)
6. We believe in the
resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His
bodily ascension into heaven, and in His present life there as High
Priest and Advocate. (Matthew 28:1-10; Acts 1:9; Hebrews 7:25-28)
7. We believe that all
who receive the Lord Jesus Christ born again by the Holy Spirit through
the Word of God become the children of God, possessing eternal life.
(John 1:12; 3:5-7)
8. We believe in the
personal, visible, imminent return of our Lord Jesus Christ to reign
upon the earth.
9. We believe in the
bodily resurrection of all the dead: the saved to a life of eternal
glory and bliss in Heaven with God; the unsaved to eternal judgment of
conscious suffering and woe in the Lake of Fire. (I Thessalonians
4:15-17; John 5:21-29, Revelation 21:1-27)
10. We believe in the
biblical separation of the believer from worldliness, recognizing that
it hinders his growth toward the Christ-ideal and detracts from his
Christian influence; and we believe in the biblical separation of the
believer unto Christ. (II Timothy 3:1-5; Romans 12:1-2 I Corinthians
6:17-20; II Corinthians 6:16-18; I John 2:1-l7)
11. We believe in
aggressively contending for the faith against atheism, agnosticism,
liberalism, the so-called scientific adulterations of Scripture and
compromise with unbelief. (Psalm 14:1; Romans 1:20-22; John 14:6; Psalm
119:89; Matthew 24:35; I Timothy 6:20-21; II Corinthians 6:14-18)
12. We believe that the
Lord Jesus Christ has commissioned believers to take the Gospel to the
world, and that the evangelization and edification of the believer is
the primary purpose of every Christian and every Christian institution.
(Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 1:8; I Timothy 4:11; Acts 5:42; II Timothy 2:2) |
