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Statement of Faith with
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By Laws
Membership Accord
Baptism Statement
Shown below
is our Statement of Faith.
I.
The Word of God
We believe that the Bible is the Word of God,
fully inspired and without error in the original
manuscripts, written under the inspiration of
the Holy Spirit, and that it has supreme
authority in all matters of faith and conduct.
II.
The Trinity
We believe that there is one living and true
God, eternally existing in three persons;
that these are equal in every divine perfection,
and that they execute distinct but harmonious
offices in the work of creation, providence, and
redemption.
III.
God the Father
We believe in God, the Father, an infinite,
personal spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom,
power, and love. We believe that He
concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of
men, that He hears and answers prayer, and that
He saves from sin and death all who come to Him
through Jesus Christ.
IV.
Jesus Christ
We believe in Jesus Christ, God's only begotten
Son, conceived by the Holy Spirit. We
believe in His virgin birth, sinless life,
miracles, and teachings. We believe in His
substitutionary atoning death, bodily
resurrection, ascension into heaven, perpetual
intercession for His people, and personal,
visible return to earth.
V.
The Holy Spirit
We believe in the Holy Spirit who came forth
from the Father and the Son to convict the world
of sin, righteousness and judgment, and to
regenerate, sanctify, and empower all who
believe in Jesus Christ. We believe that
the Holy Spirit indwells every believer in
Christ, and that He is an abiding helper,
teacher, and guide.
VI.
Regeneration
We believe that all men are sinners by nature
and by choice and are, therefore, under
condemnation. We believe that those who
repent of their sins and trust in Jesus Christ
as Savior are regenerated by the Holy
Spirit.
VII. The
Church
We believe in the universal church, a living
spiritual body of which Christ is the Head and
all regenerated persons are members. We
believe in the local church, consisting of a
company of believers in Jesus Christ, baptized
on a credible profession of faith, and
associated for worship, work, and fellowship.
We believe that God has laid upon the members of
the local church the primary task of giving the
Gospel of Jesus Christ to a lost world.
VIII. Christian
Conduct
We believe that a Christian should live for the
glory of God and the well-being of his
fellowmen; that his conduct should be blameless
before the world; that he should be a faithful
steward of his possessions, and that he should
seek to realize for himself and others the full
stature of maturity in
Christ.
IX.
The Ordinances
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ has
committed two ordinances to the local church:
baptism and the Lord's Supper.
A)
We believe that baptism is an ordinance of the
New Testament ordained by Jesus Christ, to be
unto the party baptized a sign of fellowship
with Him in His death and resurrection; of his
being engrafted into Him; of remission of sins;
and of giving up into God, through Jesus Christ,
to live and walk in newness of life.
Those who do actually profess repentance towards
God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ are the
only proper subjects of this ordinance.
The outward element to be used in this ordinance
is water, wherein the party is baptized in the
name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit.
We practice baptism by immersion because we feel
that it most clearly represents the symbols of
dying and rising with Christ and the washing of
regeneration, though we accept other
forms of Christian believer's baptism in water
and in the name of the triune God.
B)
The supper of the Lord Jesus was instituted by
Him the night He was betrayed, to be
observed in His churches unto the end of the
world, for the perpetual remembrance and showing
forth the sacrifice of Himself in His death,
confirmation of the faith of believers in all
the benefits thereof, their spiritual
nourishment and growth in Him, their further
engagement in and to all duties which they owe
Him; and to be a bond and pledge of their
communion with Him and each other.
We believe that these two ordinances should be
observed and administered until the return of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
X.
The Last Things
We believe in the personal and visible return of
the Lord Jesus Christ to the earth and the
establishment of His Kingdom. We believe in the
resurrection of the body, the final judgment,
the eternal felicity of the righteous, and the
endless suffering of the wicked.
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