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The following is an overview of what we believe
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The Bible Is:

  • The verbally-inspired Word of God
  • The final authority for faith and life
  • Inerrant in the original writings
  • Infallible and God-breathed

God Is:

One Triune God, eternally existing in three Persons:
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

  1. Co-eternal in being
  2. Co-identical in nature
  3. Co-equal in power and glory
  4. Having the same attributes and perfections

The Person
of Christ

The eternal Son of God

  1. Became man, without ceasing to be God
  2. Conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary
  3. Reveals God and redeems sinful men

The Work
of Christ

His death on the cross

  1. Was a representative, vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice
  2. Accomplished our redemption

His resurrection from the dead

  1. Seals our justification
  2. Literal, physical

His ascension to heaven

  1. He is now exalted at the right hand of God
  2. He is our High Priest
  3. He fulfills the minstry of Representative, Intercessor,
    and Advocate

Christ's Return

  • Christ will soon personally return to earth to receive His
    redeemed ones before the tribulation
  • Following the tribulation, he will return to earth with his
    saints to esablish His Millennial Kingdom

The Person
and Work
of the
Holy Spirit

  • Convicts the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgement
  • The supernatural Agent in regeneration
  • Baptizes all believers into the Body of Christ
  • Indwells and seals them unto the day of redemption
  • Guides believers into all truth

The Total
Depravity
of Man

  • Man was created in the image of God
  • Adam's sin caused mankind to inherit a sinful nature and
    become alienated from God
  • Man is totally depraved and, of himself, unable to remedy
    his lost condition

Salvation

  • The gift of God
  • Brought to man by grace
  • Received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, whose
    blood was shed on Calvary for the forgiveness of our sins.

Eternal Security

  • Once saved, the redeemed are kept by God's power
  • They are secure in Christ forever
  • Believers can rejoice in the assurance of salvation through
    the testimony of God's Word

The Believer's
Two Natures

  • Every saved person posseses two natures, an old, sinful
    nature, and a new, Christ-like nature
  • The old nature can never be fully eradicated in this life
  • Believers can have victory over the old nature through the
    power of the Holy Spirit

Separation

  • Believers should not bring reproach to their Savior through
    their lives
  • God commands separation from religious apostasy, worldly
    and sinful pleasures, practices, and associations

Missions

  • Believers are obligated to witness by life and by word to the
    truths of the Bible
  • God commands believers to proclaim the Gospel to mankind

Spiritual
Gifts

  • God sovereignly gives believers today the gifts of evangelists,
    pastors, and teachers
  • The gifts of tongues and sign miracles gradually ceased as
    the New Testament Scriptures were completed
  • God hears and answers the prayer of faith, healing according
    to His own will

The Church

  • Is composed of all believers of this present age
  • Is the body and bride of Christ
  • The establishment and continuance of local churches is
    taught and defined in the New Testament
  • The church should be free of external control, autonomous
  • The ordinances of water-immersion baptism and the Lord's
    supper are means of testimony for the church

Dispensations

  • Are revealed through the natural, literal interpretation of
    the Scripture
  • Are rules of life which define man's responsibilities in
    different ages
  • Are not ways of salvation, but are divinely ordered
    stewardships by which God directs man
  • The age of law, the age of the church, and the millennial
    kingdom are revealed in Scripture

Satan is:

  • A person, who is the author of sin and the cause of the fall
  • The declared enemy of God and man
  • Destined for punishment in the Lake of Fire

The Eternal
State

  • All men will be raised bodily from the dead
  • The saved are resurrected to eternal life
  • The unsaved are resurrected to everlasting punishment
  • Redeemed souls are, at death, present with the Lord,
    consciously awaiting the second resurrection
  • The souls of unbelievers remain, after death, in conscious
    misery until the second resurrection
  • The second resurrection re-unites all souls with their bodies,
    with believers being glorified forever with God, and
    unbelievers being tormented forever in the Lake of Fire

Movements
Contrary to
Biblical Faith

  • Ecumenism--a movement seeking to unite all religions
  • Ecumenical Evangelism--promoting the Gospel by bringing
    fundamentalists into an unequal yoke with apostate churches
  • Neo-orthodoxy--a movement that accepts religious experience
    as the criterion for truth
  • New Evangelism--a movement that emphasizes the social gospel and espouses weak or unclear doctrine
 

 

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