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What We Believe Please Click A Starred Title to Read: We believe that the Scriptures, consisting of the Old and New Testaments, are the inspired Word of God, inerrant in the original writings, and complete as the revelation of God’s will for salvation. We believe in one God, creator and sustainer of all things, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; co-equal, co-eternal and co-existent.
We believe in God the Father, an infinite personal Spirit, perfect in holiness, sovereignty, wisdom, power, and love.
We believe that Jesus Christ is God’s eternal Son, and has precisely the same nature, attributes and perfections as God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. We believe that He is not only God, but true man, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. We believe in his sinless life, substitutionary atonement, bodily resurrection ascension into heaven, priestly intercession on behalf of His people, and His personal, visible return from heaven. We believe in the Holy Spirit, His personality, and His work in regeneration, sanctification, and preservation. We believe that God created man, male and female, in the image of God and free from sin. We further believe man is a sinner by nature and choice and is therefore spiritually dead. We also believe that those who repent of sin and trust Jesus Christ as Savior are regenerated by the Holy Spirit. We believe in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ was purchased by Christ on the cross, and is received by man through faith, apart from any human merit, works, or ritual. Salvation results in righteous living, good works, and proper social concern. We believe that the Church is the spiritual body of which Christ is the head. We believe that the true Church is composed of all persons who through saving faith in Jesus Christ have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit. We believe that each local church is self governing in function and must be free from interference by any ecclesiastical or political authority. We further believe that every human being is directly responsible to God in matters of faith and life, and that each should be free to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience. We believe that the supreme task of every believer is to glorify God in his life and that his conduct should be blameless before the world. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the saved and the lost, the eternal existence of all men either in heaven or in hell, and in divine judgments, rewards, and punishments.
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