- Articles of Faith
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"Study to shew thyself approved unto God,
a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth."
IITimothy 2:15
1.
We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as verbally
inspired of God, and inherent in the original writing, and that they
are of supreme and final authority in faith and life.
2.
We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons:
Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
3.
We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit,
and born of Mary, a virgin, and is true God and true man.
4.
We believe that man was created in the image of God, that he
sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death,
but also that spiritual death which is separation from God;
and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, and,
in the case of those who reach the age of moral responsibility,
are sinners in thought, word and deed.
5.
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for the sins of all
mankind according to the Scriptures as a representative and
substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are
justified on the ground of His shed blood.
6.
We believe in the "Eternal Security" of the believer; that
it is
impossible for one born into the family of God ever to lose
their salvation.
John 10:27-29
7.
We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord,
in His ascension into heaven, and in His present life there as
High Priest and Advocate.
8.
I believe in "that blessed hope" - the personal, premillenial,
pretribulational and imminent return of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, when the Church
will be "gathered together unto Him."
9.
We believe in the literal fulfillment of the prophecies and promises
of the Scriptures which foretell and assure the future regeneration
and restoration of Israel as a nation.
10.
We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are
born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become
new creatures in Christ and children of God.
11.
We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust,
the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting
punishment of the lost.
12.
We believe that the Scriptural ordinances of the church are Baptism
and the Lord's Supper, and are to be administered by the local church,
and Baptism, by immersion, should be administered to believers only
as a symbol of their belief in the death, burial and resurrection
of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and as a testimony to the world of that
belief and of their death, burial and resurrection with Him, and that
the
Lord's Supper should be partaken of by believers only to show forth
His death, till He comes.
