|
STATEMENT OF FAITH
We believe the Holy
Scripture of the Old and New Testaments to be the inspired and only
infallibleWord of God. They are to interpreted according to their context and
purpose and inreverent
obedience to the Lord. 2 Tim. 3:16, 17 and 2 Pet.
1:19.
Webelieve in one God,
Creator of all things, immortal, invisible, existing eternally in three persons,
the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. He is perfect in love and righteous in
all
His way s. Gen. 1:1, 1 Tim. 1:17, 6:16, 1 Pet.1:2 and John
1:1.
We believe in Jesus Christ,
the only begotten Son of God, who is true God and trueman. He was born of the
Virgin Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit. He suffered death in our place to
pardon our sins. By His stripes we are healed. His blood is the means of the
atonement between God and humanity once for all time. He conquered death, rose
bodily and ascended to the right hand of the Heavenly Father where He inte
rcedes
for us. Through His blood we are eternally secure. Jesus Christ will return at a
time appointed by the Heavenly Father to receive to Himself His blood bought
church that it may be with Him forever. Anyone who repents from his/her sins and
receives Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and believes He rose from the dead will
be saved and have eternal life. John 1:1-14, Luke 1:39, 2 Cor. 4:4
, 1 Pet. 1:24,
Romans 10:13, 14:24, 8:34, John 3:16 and Heb. 10:4.
We believe the Holy Spirit
is the third person of the Godhead who at the moment of salvation seals and
indwells the believer and that the Holy Spirit gives power to every believer to
live a sanctified (Holy) ;life. He gives His gifts to each believer according to
His will for the edification, exhortation, comfort and benefit of the body of
Christ. It is the will of God that every believer be filled with the Holy
Spirit. Eph. 1:13, 4:30, 1 Cor. 6:19, 12:7, 1 Tim. 3:5, Joel 2:28 and Acts 2:38,
39.
We believe God by His Word
and for His glory freely created man and woman in His own Image as the crown of
creation so that they could have fellowship with Him. Tempted by Satan, they
rebelled against God. They thereby incurred not only physical death but also
spiritual death, which is separation from God. All human beings are born with a
sinful nature and are sinners in thought, word, and deed. Everyone who by faith
receives Jesus is born anew of the Holy Spirit and thereby becomes a child of
God. Gen. 1:26-28, Ps. 51:5, Gen. 3-4, Rom. 5:12, 3:9-18, John 1:12 and John
3:3.
We believe the church is a
growing organism which consists of all believers who have accepted Jesus as
their Lord and Savior. The church is the body of Christ. Jesus is the head. The
church Praises and Worships God and preaches the gospel and makes disciples of
all nations. Eph. 1:22, 2:21, 22, Col. 1:18, 1 Cor. 12:12-26, and Matt.
28:18-20.will be
We believe in water baptism
as a command to the church symbolizing to the world one has died with Jesus and
has been raised with Him to a new life. Matt. 28:19, Rom. 6:3, 4 and Pet.
3:21.
We believe in the observance
of the Lord’s Supper as an ordinance of the church symbolizing the broken body
and shed blood of Jesus Christ as the New Covenant between God and believers.
Luke 22:19 and 1 Cor. 11:17-34.
|