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We Believe:
That
the Bible, consisting of all the books of the Old and New
Testaments, is the Word of God, a supernaturally given revelation
without error or misstatement in moral and spiritual teachings
and record of historical facts.
In the Trinity
- that the eternal God manifests Himself in three persons:
God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit; and
that these three are one God, but separate in personality
and work.
In the deity
of our Lord Jesus Christ, in his virgin birth, in his sinless
life, in his miracles, in his vicarious death and atonement
through his shed blood, in his bodily resurrection, in his
ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in his personal
and visible return in power and glory.
That
man was created in the image of God, that he was tempted
by Satan and fell, and that, because of the exceeding sinfulness
of human nature, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely
necessary for salvation.
That the
Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Trinity, though omnipresent
from all eternity, took up his abode in the world in a special
sense on the day of Pentecost according to the divine promise
and dwells in every believer and that the gifts of the Spirit
and the fruit of the Spirit in the lives of believers are
visible demonstrations of his presence. In the bodily resurrection
of both the saved and the lost: those who are saved unto
the resurrection of life and those who are lost unto the
resurrection of damnation.
That God's plan for this age as
expressed in the great commission involves the evangelization
of the world through the witness of every believer in Jesus
Christ, the making of disciples through the teaching of
his Word in the local church as a means of accomplishing
his purpose.
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