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What We Believe
- WE BELIEVE...The Scriptures are Inspired by God and
declare His design and plan for mankind.
- WE BELIEVE...There is only One True God–revealed in three
persons...Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (commonly known as the
Trinity).
- WE BELIEVE...In the Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. As
God's son Jesus was both human and divine.
- WE BELIEVE...though originally good, Man Willingly Fell to
Sin–ushering evil and death, both physical and spiritual, into
the world.
- WE BELIEVE...Every Person Can Have Restored Fellowship with
God Through 'Salvation' (trusting Christ, through faith and
repentance, to be our personal Savior).
- WE BELIEVE...and practice two ordinances—(1) Water Baptism by
Immersion after repenting of one's sins and receiving Christ's
gift of salvation, and (2) Holy Communion (the Lord's Supper)
as a symbolic remembrance of Christ's suffering and death for our
salvation.
- WE BELIEVE...the Baptism in the Holy Spirit is a Special
Experience Following Salvation that empowers believers
for witnessing and effective service, just as it did in New
Testament times.
- WE BELIEVE... The Initial Physical Evidence of the Baptism in
the Holy Spirit is ‘Speaking in Tongues,’ as experienced on the
Day of Pentecost and referenced throughout Acts and the Epistles.
- WE BELIEVE...Sanctification Initially Occurs at Salvation
and is not only a declaration that a believer is holy, but also a
progressive lifelong process of separating from evil as believers
continually draw closer to God and become more Christlike.
- WE BELIEVE...The Church has a Mission to seek and save
all who are lost in sin. We believe 'the Church' is
the Body of Christ and consists of the people who, throughout time,
have accepted God's offer of redemption (regardless of religious
denomination) through the sacrificial death of His son Jesus Christ.
- WE BELIEVE...A Divinely Called and Scripturally Ordained
Leadership Ministry Serves the Church. The Bible teaches that
each of us under leadership must commit ourselves to reach others
for Christ, to worship Him with other believers, to build up or
edify the body of believers–the Church and to Meet human need with
ministries of love and compassion.
- WE BELIEVE...Divine Healing of the Sick is a Privilege for
Christians Today and is provided for in Christ's atonement (His
sacrificial death on the cross for our sins).
- WE BELIEVE...in The Blessed Hope—When Jesus Raptures His
Church Prior to His Return to Earth (the second coming). At this
future moment in time all believers who have died will rise from
their graves and will meet the Lord in the air, and Christians who
are alive will be caught up with them, to be with the Lord forever.
- WE BELIEVE...in The Millennial Reign of Christ when Jesus
returns with His saints at His second coming and begins His
benevolent rule over earth for 1,000 years. This millennial reign
will bring the salvation of national Israel and the establishment of
universal peace.
- WE BELIEVE...A Final Judgment Will Take Place for those
who have rejected Christ. They will be judged for their sin and
consigned to eternal punishment in a punishing lake of fire.
- WE BELIEVE...and look forward to the perfect New Heavens and
a New Earth that Christ is preparing for all people, of
all time, who have accepted Him. We will live and dwell with Him
there forever following His millennial reign on Earth. 'And so shall
we forever be with the Lord!'
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