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- STATEMENT OF FAITH -
This statement of faith is a guideline for believers to begin to know what we believe. May it serve to encourage the reading and studying of the Bible to understand it more fully and by it grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

1. We believe the Holy Scriptures to be the verbally inspired Word of God, inerrant and authoritative, and the only all sufficient rule of faith and practice.

2. We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. These three are one in substance, equal in power and glory, and each has a distinctive part in the work of salvation.

3. We believe in the absolute Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ; that He is the eternal Son of God equal with the Father. We believe that as to His body, He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and was born of the virgin Mary; that he lived a sinless life; that upon the cross He died for the ungodly; that He was raised from the dead; that He ascended into Heaven where He now intercedes for His own, and from where He will someday return.

4. We believe that the Holy Spirit is a Divine Person and not merely an impersonal influence. He inspired the Scriptures, He is the Agent of conviction and regeneration; He baptizes, seals, indwells, and anoints every believer; and He will fill all believers who yield to His operations.

5. We believe that man was created and not evolved, that he fell through sin, that he is now totally depraved, and that unless he is born again he can neither see nor enter the Kingdom of God.

6. We believe that redemption is wholly by the precious blood of Christ who offered Himself without spot to God, Who died upon the cross as a Substitute for all who believe in Him.

7. We believe that salvation is wholly of God's grace, received alone through personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, that it is entirely apart from human works, but that it produces good works as its fruits. We believe that it is the blessed privilege of every believer to know that he is saved and that he is eternally secure in Christ Jesus.

8. We believe that it is the duty of every Christian to be a witness for the Lord Jesus Christ, such witnessing to be in harmony with New Testament order; that it is the mission of the church to preach the Gospel throughout the whole world.

9. We believe that the hope of the Church is the personal and premillennial return of the Lord Jesus Christ; and that peace and blessing will come to this world only through His reign as earth's righteous King.

10. We believe in the resurrection of the body, in the conscious and eternal bliss of the saved, and in the conscious and eternal punishment of the lost.

11. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ established two ordinances to be observed in His church, baptism and the Lord's supper. We believe that Scriptural baptism is the immersion of the believer's body in water, thereby symbolizing the fact of his identification with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection. We believe that only those who have personally repented of their sins and have put faith in the Lord Jesus Christ should be baptized.

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