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We believe in the Holy Scriptures, accepting fully the
writings of the Old and New Testaments as the very Word of
God, verbally inspired in all parts and sufficient in themselves,
as our only infallible rule of faith and practice.
We believe in the one Triune God, who is personal, spirit,
sovereign, self-existent, and self-revealing in three distinct
persons - The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit.
We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son, our
Great God and Saviour; that without any essential change in His
divine Person, He became man by the miracle of Virgin Birth, thus
to continue forever as both God and true man; that He gave Himself
in death upon the cross, bearing there the sin of the World; that
He rose from the dead; and that as our Great High Priest, He
ascended into Heaven to be Advocate and Intercessor for all who
believe.
We believe that man was the direct creation of God and that by
personal disobedience to the revealed will of God, man became
a sinful creature and the progenitor of a fallen race, which is
universally sinful in both nature and practice.
We believe that salvation is the free gift of God, neither merited,
nor secured by the work of man but received only by personal faith
in the Lord Jesus Christ. Those who have received Christ then
possess the gift of eternal life, sonship in the family of God,
deliverance and security from all condemnation.
We believe in the Second Coming of Christ and that His return will
be personal, visible, premillenial, and glorious - and that the
time is always imminent.
We believe that the spirits of the saved at death go immediately to
be with Christ, their bodies waiting for the resurrection at the
second coming of Christ. The spirits of the unsaved are separated
from God and experience punishment until the final day of judgment
at which time their bodies shall be raised to be judged according
to their works and be separated from God forever, experiencing
everlasting punishment.
We believe that the Church is a spiritual body of believers in
Christ and should walk separate from the ways of this world,
assembling themselves together in local churches for worship,
fellowship, teaching and observance of the ordinances of baptism
by immersion, and the Lord's Supper.
A more complete doctrinal statement is
included with our church constitution.
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