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† We believe there is one living and true God, who eternally exists in three Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
† We believe in the Father, maker of all that is seen and unseen. We believe He providentially upholds and governs the universe according to His good purposes. He is Father to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ.
† We believe in His only Son, Jesus Christ, conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin, Mary. We believe He existed bodily on this earth, fully God and fully man. Jesus perfectly revealed and did the will of God, taking upon Himself human nature with its demands and necessities and identifying Himself completely with mankind yet without sin. We believe He was crucified for our sins. He died and was buried; He rose from the dead and ascended into heaven and is exalted at the right hand of God where He is the Mediator bringing reconciliation between God and man. We believe in His personal and future return to the earth; He will someday judge the living and the dead. We believe there is no other name under heaven by which men and women can be saved.
† We believe in the Holy Spirit, who empowers and encourages all who believe for daily Christian living. He indwells believers, convicts concerning sin and illumines the Scriptures. He inspired holy men of old to write the Scriptures. He enables men to understand truth and calls them to the Savior. He empowers the believer and the church in worship, discipleship, evangelism and service.
† We believe the Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is God's inerrant revelation of Himself to man. It contains the Old and New Testaments, the inspired word of God, without error. It reveals the principles by which God will judge us and therefore is our standard by which all human conduct, creeds and opinions should be tried. It is our source for teaching and equipping Christians for a life of righteousness.
† We believe salvation (eternal life) is a free gift offered to mankind via the grace of God; that the dead will be resurrected bodily and the believer raised to eternal life. Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.
† We believe that the passion of Christ is for all people of the world to be saved. All human beings were created in the image of God to have fellowship with Him but became alienated from that relationship through sinful disobedience. As a result, humanity is totally incapable of coming back into a right relationship with God by one’s own effort. Only the grace of God can bring man into His holy fellowship and enable man to fulfill the creative purpose of God. The sacredness of humanity is evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore, every person of every race possesses full dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.
† We believe that the prayer of Jesus Christ (John 17) declares unity among believers to be the greatest expression of God's love for the world and the greatest witness to it of the fact that He, Himself, is Messiah.
† We believe that the church is the body of Christ, of which Jesus is the Head. The purpose of the church is to gather believers to honor God by being a powerful witness for Jesus Christ in a lost world through unity among believers, people of varying ethnicity and economic means. Together they pursue God as one to extend the Gospel to the ends of the earth. We practice two ordinances in the church instituted by Christ Himself: water baptism and Holy Communion. The New Testament speaks also of the Church as the Body of Christ which includes all of the redeemed of all the ages, believers from every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation.
† We believe in the Father, maker of all that is seen and unseen. We believe He providentially upholds and governs the universe according to His good purposes. He is Father to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ.
† We believe in His only Son, Jesus Christ, conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin, Mary. We believe He existed bodily on this earth, fully God and fully man. Jesus perfectly revealed and did the will of God, taking upon Himself human nature with its demands and necessities and identifying Himself completely with mankind yet without sin. We believe He was crucified for our sins. He died and was buried; He rose from the dead and ascended into heaven and is exalted at the right hand of God where He is the Mediator bringing reconciliation between God and man. We believe in His personal and future return to the earth; He will someday judge the living and the dead. We believe there is no other name under heaven by which men and women can be saved.
† We believe in the Holy Spirit, who empowers and encourages all who believe for daily Christian living. He indwells believers, convicts concerning sin and illumines the Scriptures. He inspired holy men of old to write the Scriptures. He enables men to understand truth and calls them to the Savior. He empowers the believer and the church in worship, discipleship, evangelism and service.
† We believe the Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is God's inerrant revelation of Himself to man. It contains the Old and New Testaments, the inspired word of God, without error. It reveals the principles by which God will judge us and therefore is our standard by which all human conduct, creeds and opinions should be tried. It is our source for teaching and equipping Christians for a life of righteousness.
† We believe salvation (eternal life) is a free gift offered to mankind via the grace of God; that the dead will be resurrected bodily and the believer raised to eternal life. Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.
† We believe that the passion of Christ is for all people of the world to be saved. All human beings were created in the image of God to have fellowship with Him but became alienated from that relationship through sinful disobedience. As a result, humanity is totally incapable of coming back into a right relationship with God by one’s own effort. Only the grace of God can bring man into His holy fellowship and enable man to fulfill the creative purpose of God. The sacredness of humanity is evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore, every person of every race possesses full dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.
† We believe that the prayer of Jesus Christ (John 17) declares unity among believers to be the greatest expression of God's love for the world and the greatest witness to it of the fact that He, Himself, is Messiah.
† We believe that the church is the body of Christ, of which Jesus is the Head. The purpose of the church is to gather believers to honor God by being a powerful witness for Jesus Christ in a lost world through unity among believers, people of varying ethnicity and economic means. Together they pursue God as one to extend the Gospel to the ends of the earth. We practice two ordinances in the church instituted by Christ Himself: water baptism and Holy Communion. The New Testament speaks also of the Church as the Body of Christ which includes all of the redeemed of all the ages, believers from every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation.