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Confession Of Faith
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We believe that the Bible composed of the Old and New Testament is inspired by God and is the supreme and final authority in faith and life.
Romans 1:18-23; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Timothy 3:16-17;
2 Peter 1:21 |
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We believe in the supernatural as the vital element in the revelation and operation of the Christian faith.
| 2 Timothy 3:16-17; Hebrews 2:1-4 |
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We believe in one God eternally existing in three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Romans 8:9-11; 1 Corinthians 8:4-6; Ephesians 1:4-5, 11; 4:3-6;
Matthew 28:19; Proverbs 3:19 |
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We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, that He is true God and true man, and that He is the only sufficient mediator between God and Man.
Isaiah 9:6; John 1:1-3; 14; Colossians 1:16-18; 2:9;
Philippians 2:5-6; 1 John 4:21; 2 Timothy 3:16; Romans 5:1-11; John 14:6 |
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We believe in the vicarious death of the Lord Jesus Christ for our sins; in the resurrection of His body; in His ascension into Heaven; in His personal, visible and premillennial return to the earth. We further believe that salvation is received only through personal faith in His shed blood.
1 Corinthians 15:2-5; Romans 5:1-11; Ephesians 2:13;
Romans 4:24-25; 8:10-11; Ephesians 1:19-21 |
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We believe in the personality of the Holy Spirit and that His ministry is to reveal Christ to men in the regeneration and the sanctification of their souls.
Matthew 28:19; John 16:8; Titus 3:5; 2 Thessalonians 2:13;
Ephesians 1:13-14: 1 John 5:13;
Ephesians 5:15-21; Romans 12; 1 Corinthians 12;
Ephesians 4; 1 Peter 4 |
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We believe that man was created in the image of God, and that he sinned and thereby incurred spiritual death.
| Deuteronomy 4:32; Genesis 1:26-27; Romans 5:12-21; 7:14, 17-25; Galatians 3:22; Romans 3:23; James 1:13-15 |
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We believe that there is a radical and essential difference between the righteous and the wicked; that such only as through faith are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and sanctified by the Spirit of God are truly righteous in His esteem, while all such as continue in impenitence and unbelief are in His sight wicked and under the curse; that this distinction holds among men both in and after death, in the everlasting felicity of the saved and the everlasting conscious suffering of the lost.
John 14:6; Ephesians 1:4; Hebrews 11:6; Romans 5:1-11; John 3:16; Ephesians 2:8-10; Romans 3:23-24; Ephesians 1:13; John 10:28;
1 John 5:13; Romans 7:4; John 15:1-6; 2 Peter 1:5-8;
1 Thessalonians 4:15-18; Revelation 20:11-15 |
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We believe that baptism is immersion of the believer in water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, setting forth the essential facts in redemption—the death and resurrection of Christ, and the essential facts in the experience of the believer—death to sin and resurrection to newness of life.
| Romans 6:3-6; Matthew 28:19 |
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We believe that the Lord's Supper is a commemoration of His death until He comes and is to be observed regularly.
| 1 Corinthians 11:17-24; Matthew 26:26-30 |
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We believe that a New Testament Church is a body of believers thus baptized, associated for worship, service, and the spread of the gospel.
Ephesians 1:22-23; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Acts 2:42-47;
Ephesians 4:11-13; Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 1:8 |
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