| 1. Bible |
We believe the
Bible to be the complete Word of God;
that the sixty-six Books, as originally written, comprising the Old
and New Testaments were verbally inspired by the Spirit of God and
were entirely free from error; that the Bible is the final authority
in all matters of Faith and practice and the true basis of Christian
union.
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| 2. God |
We believe in one God, Creator of all, holy,
sovereign, eternal, existing in three equal Persons, the Father, the
Son and the Holy Spirit.
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| 3. Christ |
We believe in the absolute and essential deity of
Jesus Christ, in His eternal existence with the Father in preincarnate
glory, in His virgin birth, sinless life, substitutionary death,
bodily resurrection, triumphant ascension, mediatorial ministry and
personal return.
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| 4. The Holy Spirit |
We believe in the absolute and essential deity and
personality of the Holy Spirit who convinces of sin, or righteousness,
and of judgment; who regenerates, sanctifies, illuminates and comforts
those who believe in Jesus Christ.
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| 5. Satan |
We believe that Satan exists as an evil personality,
the originator or sin, the arch-enemy of God and man.
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| 6. Man |
We believe that man was divinely created in the
image of God; that he sinned, becoming guilty before God, resulting in
total depravity, thereby incurring physical and spiritual death.
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| 7. Salvation |
We believe that salvation is by the sovereign,
electing grace of God; that by the appointment of the Father, Christ
voluntarily suffered a vicarious, expiatory and propitiatory death;
that justification is by faith alone in the all-sufficient sacrifice
and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and that those whom God has
effectually called shall be divinely preserved and finally perfected
in the image of the Lord.
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| 8. Future Things |
We believe in the personal bodily and glorious
return of the Lord Jesus Christ; in the resurrection of the just and
unjust; in the eternal blessedness of the redeemed and in the Judgment
and conscious, eternal punishment of the wicked.
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| 9. The Local Church |
We believe that a church is a company of immersed
believers, called out from the world separated unto the Lord Jesus,
voluntarily associated for the ministry of the Word, the mutual
edification of its members, the propogation of the faith and the
observance of the ordinances. We believe it is a sovereign,
independent body, exercising its own divinely awarded gifts, precepts
and privileges under the Lordship of Christ, the Great Head of the
church. We believe that its officers are pastors and deacons.
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| 10. Ordinances |
We believe that there are only two ordinances for
the church regularly observed in the New Testament in the following
order:
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- Baptism, which is the immersion of the
believer in water, whereby the person obeys Christ's command and
sets forth his identification with Christ in His death, burial and
resurrection.
- The Lord's Supper, which is the memorial
wherein the believer partakes of the two elements, bread and wine,
which symbolize the Lord's Body and shed blood, proclaiming His
death until He come.
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| 11. The Church and State |
We believe in the entire separation of church and
state.
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| 12. Religious Liberty |
We believe in religious liberty; that every man has
the right to practice and propogatate his beliefs.
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| 13. The Lord's Day |
We believe that the first day of the week is the
Lord's day and that, in a special sense, it is the divinely appointed
day for worship and spiritual exercise.
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| 14. Civil Government |
We believe that the civil government is of a
divine appointment for the interest and good order of society; that
magistrates are to be prayed for, conscientiously honoured and
obeyed, except only in the things opposed to the will of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who is the only Lord of the conscience and Prince of
the kings of the earth.
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