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We believe in one God, eternally existent
as God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. |
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We believe that the Bible, composed of
the Old and New Testaments, is God's inspired, infallible, and inerrant
Word, and is the supreme standard and final authority for all conduct,
faith, and doctrine. |
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We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus
Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in
His vicarious and atoning death, in His bodily resurrection, in His
ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in
power and glory. |
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We believe that man was created in the
image of God, but by willful transgression became sinful and is justly
under the condemnation and wrath of Almighty God. |
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We believe that the only salvation from
this guilt and condemnation is through faith in the righteousness and
atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that this salvation is the free
gift of God's love and grace. |
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We believe in the personality of the Holy
Spirit and that His ministry is to reveal Christ to men, to convict of
sin, to regenerate repentant sinners and, by His presence and power, to
sanctify the lives of the redeemed. |
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We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ
instituted the ordinances of baptism and the Lord's supper; that baptism
by immersion is only to be administered upon profession of faith in
Christ thereby declaring our faith in a crucified, buried and risen
Savior; that the Lord's supper is only for believers, is to be preceded
by faithful self-examination and observed in remembrance of the Lord's
death until He comes. |
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We believe that a New Testament church is
a body of baptized believers associated for worship, service, and the
spread of the gospel of the grace of God to all the world. |
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We believe that there will be a
resurrection of the just and the unjust; the just, having been redeemed
by the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, to be with Him throughout
eternity in glory; the unjust, having died impenitent and unreconciled
to God, to eternal condemnation in hell. |
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