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Statement of Faith
We believe the Bible is the inspired and only infallible, authoritative Word of God.
(2 Tim. 3:16-17)
We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (1 John 5:6-8)
We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
(1 Cor. 15:3-4, I Peter 2:18-24, John 3:16)
We believe that for salvation of lost and sinful man, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
(Romans 3:21-30, Gal. 4:4-7)
We believe the Holy Spirit indwells and baptizes every believer into the body of Christ upon their profession of faith in the substitutionary work of Jesus Christ and that Jesus baptizes the believer with the infilling of the Holy Spirit as a subsequent and separate event evidenced by the initial physical sign of speaking with other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance.
(Acts 2:4, Acts 10:44-46, Acts 19:2, Acts 19:6, Acts 1:8, Acts 2:42-43, Matt. 3:11)
Salvation
Salvation is reconciliation with God through the atoning work of Jesus Christ. God offers us salvation by His grace alone and we receive it as a gift through personal faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ. This right standing before God must be received and cannot be earned. God freely offers salvation to all people, and our salvation is secure. (Ephesians 2:8,9; Romans 8:38,39; Ephesians 1:13; 2:4)
We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; that they are saved unto the resurrection of life; and that they are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
(John 5:24, 28 & 29)
We believe that deliverance from sickness is provided for in the atonement, and is the privilege of all believers.
(Isa. 53:4, Matt. 8:16-17, Mark 16:18, John 5:6-14, 1 Peter 2:24)
We believe in the imminent return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
(1 Thess. 4:13-18, Rev. 22:20, John 14:3)
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