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What We Believe
- We believe in the verbal, plenary (complete) inspiration
of the Old and New Testaments. We believe the Bible is the
final authority for faith and practice. Matt. 5:18; John
16:12-13; II Tim. 3:16-17; II Peter 1:20-21
- We believe in one God eternally existing in three
persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy
Spirit. Duet 6:4; Mark 12:29; Luke 1:31-3; I Peter 1:2-3
- We believe in the deity, virgin birth, vicarious death
and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ. We believe in His
bodily ascension into heaven, where He now intercedes for
believers. John 1:1-3,14; Luke 1:27-35; I Peter 2:24; Acts
1:9-10; Rom. 8:34; Heb. 7:25; Heb 9:24
- We believe that salvation is the gift of God, by grace
and received only by personal faith in the Lord Jesus
Christ. Rom. 3:24-28; Eph. 1:7; Eph.2:8-9
- We believe that all believers, once saved, are kept by
God's power and are thus secure in Christ forever. John
10:27-29; I Peter 1:3-5; I John 5:11-13
- We believe in the personal, imminent, pretribulational
rapture of all believers, the premillenial return of the
Lord Jesus Christ to earth with His saints to establish
His millennial kingdom. I Thess. 1:10, 4:13-18; 5:9-10;
Rev. 19:11-16; Rev. 20:1-6
- We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the
saved to eternal life, and the unsaved to judgment and
everlasting punishment. We believe in a literal heaven and
hell. Matt.25:46; Mark 9:43-48; John 5:28-29; 11:25-26; II
Thess.1:7-9; Rev. 20:11-15
- We believe in the local church as God's autonomous
institution of regenerate, immersed believers practicing
two scriptural ordinances - baptism by immersion and the
Lord's Supper. We believe there are two scriptural offices
- pastor and deacon. Matt.3:6; 13-17; Matt. 28:19-20; Rom.
6:4; Matt. 26:26-30; Mark 14:22-25; Luke 22:19-20; Acts
2:41-42; I Cor. 11:23-29
- We believe it is the responsibility of every believer to
live a holy life and to carry out the Great Commission by
seeking to proclaim the Gospel to all mankind. Rom 12:1-2;
II Tim.3; I John 2:15-17; II Cor. 6:14; II Cor. 7:1; Mark
16:15; Acts 1:8; II Cor. 5:19-23
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