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The Bible
- We believe the words of the Old and New Testament are verbally inspired by God and are without error in the original manuscripts.
- We believe the Bible is to be interpreted in a normal and literal way
- We believe the Holy Spirit guides the believer to understand the Bible.
God
- We believe that God is one.
- We believe that God became flesh in Jesus Christ the Son.
- We believe the Holy Spirit is a person possessing all the distinctively divine attributes.
Man
- We believe that the first man and woman were created in the image of God.
- We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men.
The Work of Jesus Christ
- We believe that Jesus Christ died for the sins of all humanity as a substitutionary sacrifice and that all who believe in Him are declared righteous on the basis of His shed blood.
- We believe in the bodily resurrection of Christ, in His ascension into heaven and in His present life there for us.
- We believe in the personal, bodily and premillennial return of Jesus Christ in the glory of His Father to set up on earth a kingdom in which He will reign in righteousness and peace.
Salvation
- We believe that whoever by faith receives Jesus Christ as his Savior becomes a child of God. This salvation is not the result of any human effort or merit.
Life as a Christian
- We believe that all who have received Jesus Christ are kept secure by the power of God through the new birth and the indwelling and sealing of the Holy Spirit and the intercession of Christ.
- We believe that all believers still sin in this life, but that God has made full provision for believers to stop sinning and to live for God through identification with Christ, a knowledge of and obedience to the Bible and by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
- We believe that the purpose of the church and the believers who make up the church is twofold: evangelism and edification.
- We believe that all believers are to make progressive steps of growth towards spiritual maturity.
- We believe that biblical, historical and psychological evidence indicates that the gift of speaking in tongues has probably ceased. Nevertheless, we believe that this practice should not be expressed in corporate worship since it is not a gift given to edify the body of Christ.
The Church
- We believe that the church in its invisible form is universal and the true body of Christ.
- We believe that Christ ordained the observance of water baptism and the Lord's Supper until He comes.
- We believe in the imminent, pretribulational, return of Christ for the church.
- We believe that the local church is to be ruled by elders who are assisted by deacons when necessary to carry out the ministry.
Angels
- We believe that angels are powerful spirit beings who are distinct from human beings.
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