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What We Believe. . .
We believe in the divine inspiration, trustworthiness, and authority of
the
scriptures. We believe that the Bible reveals God, the fall of
humanity, the
way of salvation, and God’s plan and purpose through the ages. It is
truth,
without any mixture of error in the original autographs. God’s Word has
been
accurately preserved through the copied manuscripts.
We believe that there is one and only one living and true God
who
reveals himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He is an
intelligent,
spiritual, and personal being, the Creator, Preserver, and Ruler of the
universe, infinite in holiness and in all other perfections.
We believe in the deity, virgin birth, and bodily resurrection
of
Jesus Christ.
We believe that salvation is “by grace” plus nothing and minus
nothing. The conditions to salvation are repentance and faith.
Individuals are
justified by faith alone, and are accounted righteous before God only
through
the merit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
We believe in the priesthood of each believer. Sanctification
is
the process of growth in the believer’s life under the lordship of
Jesus Christ
through the person of the Holy Spirit, who comes to indwell the
believer at the
moment of salvation. Salvation is a gift from God that can never be
lost.
We believe that the universal church is composed of all true
believers everywhere, and that the New Testament emphasizes the role
and
importance of the local church as an autonomous body of baptized
believers
committed to Christ’s teachings, observing the
two ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s Supper. The local church is to
work in
cooperation with other like-minded congregations in seeking to extend
the
gospel to the ends of the earth.
We believe in
the visible, personal, and imminent return of Jesus
Christ. We believe in the bodily resurrection and everlasting conscious
blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting conscious punishment of
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