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DOCTRINAL BELIEFS |
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We believe that the Bible is
the complete and infallible Word of God,
verbally and literally inspired as found in
the original manuscripts, and is the supreme
and final authority in all matters.
(pertaining to faith and practice.)
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II Timothy 3:16
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II PETER 1:21
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We believe in one God
eternally existing in three persons: Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit.
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John 14:16
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Matthew 3:16-17
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Matthew 28:19
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We believe that Jesus Christ
was begotten of the Holy Spirit and born of
the Virgin Mary, and that Jesus Christ is
True God and True Man without sin.
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Matthew 1:20
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Luke 1:35
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John 1:1-2
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John 12:45
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John 14:9
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II Corinthians 5:21
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Hebrews 4:15
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We believe that Jesus Christ
is the one all-sufficient mediator between
God and man.
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We believe in the personality
of the Holy Spirit and that His ministry is
to reveal Christ to men in the regeneration
and sanctification of their souls.
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We believe that man was
created in the image of God, and that he
sinned and thereby incurred spiritual death,
which is everlasting punishment.
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We believe in the vicarious
death of the Lord Jesus Christ for our sins,
and that all who believe in Him are
justified on the grounds of His shed blood,
in the resurrection of His body, His
ascension into Heaven and His personal and
visible return to the earth.
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I Peter 1:19
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I Corinthians 15:3
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Acts 1:10-11
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I Peter 3:18
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I Thessalonians 4:14-18
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II Timothy 2:8
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We believe in the
resurrection of the dead, both the just and
the unjust, the righteous going to
everlasting life in glory with Christ and
the wicked to everlasting punishment.
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We believe that salvation is
the gift of God and is received and
experienced only through personal faith in
Him.
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Ephesians 2:8-9
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Acts 16:31
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John 3:16,36
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John 10:28-29
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I John 5:11-12
- We Believe that the
immersion of Believer in water, in the name
of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Spirit is Baptism as set forth in the
New Testament.
- Romans 6:1-11
- Matthew 3:13-17
- Acts 2:38
- Acts 8:36-39
- We believe that the
ordinance of the Lord’s Supper commemorates
His death until He comes.
- Matthew 26:26-30
- I Corinthians
11:23-30
- We believe that each
local church has the right to be independent
and autonomous and must be free from
interference by any ecclesiastical or
political authority.
- Acts 6:2-3
- Acts 4:18-20
- II Corinthians 8:19
- We believe that each
Christian has the privilege and
responsibility to serve and exercise their
spiritual gifts for the family of God each
according to their spiritual gifts for the
betterment of each other, our church, and
the (our) community at large.
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