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1. We
believe that love one for another as Jesus loves the
believer manifests our discipleship, proves our love
for God and symbolizes our authority as New Testament
churches. Love is therefore the great commandment of the
LORD Jesus Christ upon which all others are dependent.
(Matt. 22:35-40; John 13:34, 35; John 15:12; I John 4:7-21;
I John 5:1-3; Rev. 2:4, 5)
2. We
believe in the infallible, verbal inspiration of the whole
Bible and that the Bible is the all sufficient rule of faith
and practice. (Psalm 119:160; 2 Tim. 3:16, 17)
3. We
believe in the personal triune God: Father, Son and Holy
Spirit, equal in divine perfection. (Matt. 28:19)
4. We
believe in the Genesis account of Creation. (Gen. 1:2)
5. We
believe that Satan is a fallen angel, the archenemy of God
and man, the unholy god of this world, and that his destiny
is the eternal lake of fire. (Isa. 14:12-15; Ezek. 28:11-19;
Matt. 25:41; 2 Cor. 4:4; Eph. 6:10-17; Rev. 20:10)
6. We
believe in the virgin birth and sinless humanity of Jesus
Christ. (Matt. 1:18-20; 2 Cor. 5:21; 1 Peter 2:22)
7. We
believe in the deity of Jesus Christ. (John 10:30; John 1:1,
14; 2 Cor. 5:19)
8. We
believe the Holy Spirit is the divine Administrator for
Jesus Christ in His churches. (Luke 24:49; John 14:16, 17;
Acts 1:4, 5, 8; Acts 2:1-4)
9. We
believe that miraculous spiritual manifestation gifts were
done away when the Bible was completed. Faith, Hope and Love
are the vital abiding Spiritual Gifts.(1 Cor. chapters
12-14)
10. We
believe that Man was created in the image of God and lived
in innocency until he fell by voluntary transgression from
his sinless state, the result being that all mankind are
sinners. (Gen. 1:26; Gen. 3:6-24; Rom. 5:12, 19)
11. We
believe that the suffering and death of Jesus Christ was
substitutionary for all mankind and is efficacious only to
those who believe. (Isa. 53:6; Heb. 2:9; 1 Peter 2:24; 1
Peter 3:18; 2 Peter 3:9; 1 John 2:2)
12. We
believe in the bodily resurrection and ascension of Christ
and the bodily resurrection of His saints. (Matt. 28:1-7;
Acts 1:9-11; 1 Cor. 15:42-58; 1 Thes. 4:13-18)
13. We
believe in the premillennial, personal, bodily return of
Christ as the crowning event of the Gentile age. This event
will include the resurrection of the righteous to eternal
heaven, and the Millennium will be followed by the
resurrection of the unrighteous unto eternal punishment in
the lake of fire and that the righteous shall enter into the
heaven age. (John 14:1-6; 1 Thes. 4:13-18; 2 Thes. 2:8; Rev.
19; Rev. 20:4-6; Rev.20:11-15; Rev. 21:8)
14. We
believe that the depraved sinner is saved wholly by grace
through faith in Jesus Christ, and the requisites to
regeneration are repentance toward God and faith in the Lord
Jesus Christ (Luke 13:3-5; John 3:16-18; Acts 20:21; Rom.
6:23; Eph. 2:8, 9) and that the Holy Spirit convicts
sinners, regenerates, seals, secures, and indwells every
believer (John 3:6; John 16:8-9; Rom. 8:9-11; 1 Cor. 6:19,
20; Eph. 4:30; Titus 3:5)
15. We
believe that all who trust Jesus Christ for salvation are
eternally secure in Him and shall not perish. (John 3:36;
John 5:24; John 10:27-30; Rom. 8:35-39; Heb. 10:39; 1 Peter
1:5)
16. We
believe that God deals with believers as His children, that
He chastises the disobedient , and that He rewards the
obedient. (Matt. 16:27; Matt. 25:14-23; John 1:12; Heb.
12:5-11; 2 John 8; Rev. 22:12)
17. We
believe that Jesus Christ established His church during His
ministry on earth and that it is always a local, visible
assembly of scripturally baptized believers in covenant
relationship to carry out the commission of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and each church is an independent, self governing
body, and no other ecclesiastical body may exercise
authority over it. We believe that Jesus Christ gave the
Great Commission to the New Testament churches only, and
that He promised the perpetuity of His churches. (Matt.
4:18-22; Matt. 16:18; Matt. 28:19, 20; Mark 1:14-20; John
1:35-51; Eph. 3:21)
18.
We believe that there are two pictorial ordinances in the
Lord's churches: Baptism and the Lord's Supper. Scriptural
baptism the immersion of penitent believers in water,
administrated by the authority of a New Testament church in
the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Lord's
Supper is a memorial ordinance, restricted to the members of
the church observing the ordinance. (Matt. 28:19-20; Acts
8:12, 38; Rom. 6:4; 1 Cor. 5:11-13; 1 Cor. 11:1, 2, 17-20,
26)
19. We
believe that there are two divinely appointed offices,
pastors and deacons, to be fulfilled by men whose
qualifications are set forth in Titus and 1 Timothy.
20.
We believe that all associations, fellowships, and
committees are, and properly should be, servants of, and
under controls of the churches. (Matt. 20: 25-28)
21. We
believe in freedom of worship without interference from the
government and affirm our belief in civil obedience, unless
the laws and regulations of civil government run contrary to
the Holy Scriptures. (Rom. 13: 1-7; 1 Pet. 2:13-15)
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