| We believe in one God, eternally existent in
three Persons—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—and that He created everything out of
nothing for His own pleasure and purpose. We believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the
verbally inspired Word of God, inerrant and infallible in the original manuscripts, and
the supreme and final authority in matters of faith and life, interpreted by the Holy
Spirit to each individual believer.
We believe that man was created in the image of
God, and that when he sinned the race incurred both physical and spiritual death; thus man
became alienated from God and incapable of remedying his sinful condition by his own
means.
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ was
begotten of the Father through the Holy Spirit, was born of the virgin Mary, and is true
man without ceasing to be God.
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ lived a
sinless and perfect life that fully pleased His Father: that He died for our sins on the
cross, bearing the judgment demanded by God's holy justice against sin, thus making it
possible for God to remain just and at the same time to justify those who believe in
Jesus.
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ rose bodily
from the dead, never to die again, and is ascended to the right hand of the Father, where
He intercedes as High Priest and Advocate on behalf of all who believe in Him.
We believe that those who, by faith alone and
through no merit of their own, receive the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior are miraculously
born again of the Holy Spirit and, as children of God, become partakers of His divine
nature and are eternally secure in Him.
We believe that the Holy Spirit baptizes all true
believers into the one true church, His Body; that He indwells them eternally, bestows
spiritual gifts upon them, and empowers them for service and holy living.
We believe that the Scriptures have given us
everything pertaining to life and godliness, including not only salvation from the penalty
of sin but instruction in righteousness for present sanctification and victorious living,
to the glory of God.
We believe that two ordinances, neither of which
is essential to salvation, are to be observed by all believers in obedience to our Lord
until Christ's return. baptism and the Lord's Supper.
We believe that at death the souls of the
redeemed pass immediately into Christ's presence to remain there until the resurrection of
the body at Christ's return for the church. We also believe that at death the souls of the
lost go to hell, where they remain until they are brought before Christ at the Great White
Throne final judgment to be judged according to their works and cast into the lake of
fire, there to remain eternally.
We believe in the bodily resurrection of the
redeemed at the premillennial return of Christ for His church, when the souls and spirits
of those who have died will be reunited with their bodies, now immortal, and that
believers who are alive at that time, their bodies likewise transformed into immortality,
will be caught up together with them to meet Christ in the air, ever to be with Him.
We believe in the personal, bodily return of our
Lord Jesus Christ to rescue Israel at Armageddon and to establish His millennial kingdom,
reigning over this earth from His father David's throne in Jerusalem, and that His
redeemed will reign with Him In resurrected bodies for 1,000 years. |