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1. We believe in the
Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments in their original writing
as fully inspired of God and accept them as the supreme and final
authority for faith and life.
2. We believe in one God, externally existing in three
Persons-Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
3. We believe that all that repent of their sins and receive the
Lord Jesus Christ by faith are born again of the Holy Spirit and
thereby become children of God.
4. We believe that God created man in his own image; that man sinned
and thereby incurred the penalty of sin which is death, physical and
spiritual; that all human beings inherit a sinful nature which
issues (in the case of those who reach moral responsibility) in
actual transgressions involving personal guilt.
5. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, a
substitutionary sacrifice according to the Scriptures and that all
who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood.
6. We believe that when a person is truly saved by placing their
faith in Christ and His finished work on the cross, then they cannot
loose their salvation, but have already received Eternal Life and
are sealed by the Holy Spirit.
7. We believe that the one true Church is the whole company of those
who have been redeemed by Jesus Christ and regenerated by the Holy
Spirit; that the local church on earth should take its character
from this conception of the Church spiritual and therefore, that the
new birth and personal confession of Christ are essentials of Church
membership.
8. We believe in the personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
9. We believe in the resurrection of both the just and the unjust,
the eternal blessedness of the redeemed, and the eternal banishment
of those who have rejected the offer of salvation.
10. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ appointed 2 ordinances-
Baptism in water and the Lord’s Supper- not to save us but to be
observed as acts of obedience and as perpetual witnesses to the
cardinal facts of the Christian faith; that Baptism is the immersion
of the believer as a confession of identification with Christ in
burial and resurrection and that the Lord’s Supper is the partaking
of the emblems symbolic of the Savior’s broken body and shed blood,
in remembrance of His sacrificial death, until He comes.
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