- 1. The Bible is inspired of God, inerrant in the
original documents, and official authority in all
matters of faith and practice.
2. There is one God, eternally existent in three
Persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
3. The Lord Jesus Christ is fully God, born of a
virgin, sinlessly perfect. His sacrifice is
substitutionary and representative. He rose
bodily from the dead and ascended to His Father's
right hand, where He now ministers as our Great
High Priest. He will come to rapture His Church
and subsequently return to reign on the earth.
4. Each member of the human race is fallen,
sinful and lost, and regeneration by the Holy
Spirit is absolutely essential for the salvation
of man. Redemption is wholly by the blood of
Christ, and salvation is by grace through faith
in our Lord Jesus Christ.
5. The Holy Spirit indwells the believer, who is
sealed until the day of redemption and is
empowered to live a godly life.
6. There will be a resurrection of the saved and
of the lost; of the saved, unto eternal life, and
of the lost, unto eternal and conscious judgment.
7. The Church began with the descent of the Holy
Spirit at Pentecost and is composed of all true
believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. These
believers are united to Him and to one another by
the indwelling Spirit. This means that the
Church, as a whole, is not an organization, but a
living organism, known as the Body of Christ.
8. Christ, our risen Head, is the Giver of gifts,
such as evangelists, pastors and teachers, and
these men are responsible to Him for their
service. They are given "for the perfecting
of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for
the edifying of the Body of Christ".
9. There are two Christian ordinances; baptism
and the Lord's Supper. Baptism by immersion
signifies that the believer, having died with
Christ, is buried with Him in baptism and also is
risen with Christ to walk in newness of life. The
Lord's Supper is a memorial feast, instituted by
the Lord Himself, exclusively for His own. In the
observance of this supper, believers remember
Him, they show His death until He comes, and they
function as worshiping priests before God.
10. Every true child of God possesses eternal
life and, being justified, sanctified and sealed
with the Holy Spirit, is safe and secure for all
eternity. However, a Christian can, through sin,
lose his fellowship, joy, power, testimony and
reward, and incur the Father's chastisement.
Relationship is eternal, being established by new
birth; fellowship, however, is dependent upon
obedience.
11. The personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ
to translate His Church is imminent, an event
which concludes the present age of grace. This
will be followed by the outpouring of God's wrath
on the earth, known as the Tribulation. After
this, Christ's Millennial Kingdom will be
established, and the "glory of the Lord will
cover the earth as the waters cover the
sea". At the conclusion of His Millennial
Reign, Christ will deliver up the Kingdom to God,
the Father, that the Triune God may be all in
all.
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