| We believe the following: | ||
| 1) The Bible is the Word of God: | ||
| a) Inspired by God Himself (II Tim. 3:15-17) | ||
| b) Infallible | ||
| c) Authoritative, Revealed, Will of God (Heb.4:12; John 7:17) | ||
| 2) There is one true God, eternally existent in three person: Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit (Mark 12:29; I John 5: 6-8) | ||
| 3) JESUS CHRIST is perfect deity and perfect humanity (John 3:18; Mark 2:27-28) | ||
| His virgin birth (John 3:16) | ||
| His sinless life ( I Peter 2:22) | ||
| His miracles (Acts 10:38) | ||
| His vicarious and atoning death through His shad blood (I Cor. 15: 3-4) | ||
| His bodily resurrection ( Eph. 1:20) | ||
| His Ascension to the right hand of the Father ( Eph. 1:20) | ||
| His personal return in power and glory (I Thess. 4:13-18) | ||
| His milleniniel reign (Rev. 19:11-16; 20: 1-7) | ||
| 4) The salvation of men: | ||
| a) The shed blood of Jesus Christ, grace through faith, believing in the heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, and confessing that Jesus Christ is the Lord with the mouth, will result in men’s salvation ( Rom. 3:21-30; 10:8-10). |
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| b) Regeneration of the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential for the New Birth ( Gal. 4:4-7). |
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| 5) Water Baptism is an ordinance of the church symbolizing to the world that one has died with Jesus and has also been raised with him in resurrection power to walk in newness of life.(Matt. 28:19; Acts 10: 47-48; symbolizing – Rom 6:4-11; Eph 2:6). |
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| 6) The Lord’s Supper is an ordinance of the church symbolizing the broken body and shed blood of Jesus Christ as the New Covenant between God and man (I Cor. 11: 24-25, 28). |
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| 7) The evidence of the in-filling of the Holy Ghost, which is the Promise of theFather, is the physical sign of speaking in other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance,and by the subsequent manifestation of the spiritual power in public testimony and service after the New Birth (Acts 2:4; Acts 19:2,6: Acts 2:42-43; Matt. 3:11; I Cor. 12:7-11). |
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| 8) The Church is the Body of Christ, the dwelling place and home of God through the Holy Spirit. Each believer born of God’s Spirit is an integral part of the general assembly, and the Church of the Firstborn, which is written in Heaven (Eph. 1: 22-23; 2:19,22). |
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| 9) We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; that if they are saved unto the resurrection of life, and they who are lost unto the resurrection of damnation (John 5: 24, 28-29). |
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10) In the atonement of Jesus and His resurrection, deliverance from sickness,
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11) Total prosperity: spiritual (John 3:3,11; mental (II Tim 1:7;Rom 12:2).physical
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12) Women in the Ministry: There is no scriptural prohibition concerning women
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