1. THE SCRIPTURES

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All the Scriptures, both the Old and New Testaments, center on Jesus Christ.

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All Scripture is to be interpreted in the natural, historical, grammatical, literal manner.

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All Scripture was designed for our practical instruction and that it is the believer’s sole authority.

Scriptural References:

2 Timothy 3:15-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21; 2 Peter 3:15-16; 1 Corinthians 2:13; John 14:26, 16:13, 17:17; Hebrews 1:1-2.

2. THE TRUE GOD

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The Father is the source of all things and the one who sent the Son as His gift into the world.

Jesus Christ died for our sin on our behalf.

Jesus Christ rose physically from the dead and ascended to the right

hand of the Father, where He is now ministering on our behalf.

Jesus Christ will receive us unto Himself at His coming and will return a second time to establish His earthly kingdom.

The Holy Spirit is a divine person who is co-equal with the Father and

Son and that He was active in creation, convicts the world of sin, reveals Christ and unites all believers as one body along with such work as

sealing, indwelling, empowering, teaching, guiding, sanctifying, and

gifting.

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Revelatory and sign gifts of the Holy Spirit were given to the early

church for the primary purpose of authenticating its ministry.

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God created the heavens and the earth including all life, each after its

own species, by direct act and not by the process of evolution.

Scriptural References:

John 4:24; Deuteronomy 6:4; Genesis 1:1-31; Colossians 2:9;

Hebrews 1:1-2; John 1:1; John 1:14-18; John 8:58; Philippians 2:5-8;

1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 3:18; Hebrews 7:25; Matthew 28:19;

2 Corinthians 13-14; Matthew 1:18-25; John 14:26, 16:7-14;

Ephesians 1:13-14; Psalm 139:7-12; Hebrews 9:14; Luke 24:49;

Acts 5:3,4; Romans 8:9-16, 26-27; 1 Corinthians 6:19, 12:13;

2 Corinthians 12:12; Colossians 1:16-17; John 1:3; Exodus 20:11.

3. MAN/SIN

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Man is the product of the direct creative act of God, made in the image

of God.

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In the sanctity of human life begins at the point of conception.

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All sexual relationships must pattern themselves after a faithful heterosexual relationship within marriage.

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Through voluntary disobedience to God man fell from his original

position of innocence and sinlessness, and as a consequence became separated from God in fellowship and became subject to the power of Satan.

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Sin has been transmitted to the entire human race so that every

child of Adam is born into the world with a fallen nature devoid of

spiritual life and is powerless to recover from this condition.

Scriptural References:

Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7, 3:1-6; Romans 1:18-32, 3:1-24, 5:10-19.

4. SALVATION

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Salvation is entirely of God, by grace, through personal faith in the

death and resurrection of Christ, wholly apart from any human merit, works, or foreseen faith.

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Believers were chosen sovereignly by God before the foundation of

the world for salvation and are enabled by the Holy Spirit to believe

in Christ and the good news of forgiveness and salvation.

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The new nature and eternal life are communicated to believers by a supernatural work of the Holy Spirit.

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Believers have a right standing before God in that their sins were put

on Christ and His righteousness was accredited to them.

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All believers were set apart for God at the point of salvation and the believer is increasingly brought into conformity to the holiness of God,

a process brought to completion only at the return of Christ.

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All who are truly born again will be kept by Christ and will persevere

in faith unto the day of complete redemption.

Scriptural References:

Ephesians 2:1-8; Titus 3:5-6; Acts 16:31; John 3:3-7; 2 Corinthians 5:17;

1 Peter 1:23; 2 Peter 1:4; Ephesians 1:4-11; 2 Thessalonians 2:13;

Romans 5:1; 1 Corinthians 1:2; Philippians 1:6; Romans 8:33-39;

John 10:27-29.  

5. THE CHURCH

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The Church is the Body and Bride of our Lord and began fifty days after the crucifixion of Christ. 

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The local church is a congregation of immersed believers and its purpose is to glorify God by building itself up in the faith, by instruction of the Word, by fellowship, by keeping the ordinances and by advancing and communicating the gospel to the entire world.

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The ordinances of the church are baptism by immersion as the

identifying symbol of one’s belief in Christ’s death and resurrection,

and communion which is a commemoration of Christ’s death until He comes.

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The local church has the absolute right of self-government free from

the interference of any hierarchy of individuals or organizations; and

that the one and only superintendent is Christ, through the Holy Spirit.

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The church has the responsibility to be a voice for justice and truth in

the world.

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In separation from all sinful practices and all spiritual apostasy.

Scriptural Reference:

Acts 2:1-6; Acts 11:15; Acts 2:41-42; Ephesians 5:25-33; Ephesians 3:31; Ephesians 4:13-16; 2 Timothy 2:2, 15; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; Acts 2:47;

1 John 1:3; Luke 22:19; Acts 2:38-42; Matthew 28:19; Acts 1:8; 2 Corinthians 6:14;     Matthew 6:15-16; Ephesians 1:22-24;

Ephesians 4:11-12; Ephesians 5:23; 1 Timothy 3:15; Colossians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 11:23-28; 1 John 2:15-16; 1 John 4:1-3; 2 Corinthians 5:20; Matthew 18:15-17; Matthew 16:18.

6. ANGELS

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We believe that God created an innumerable host of personal spirit beings, commonly known as angels, to glorify and serve Him. The ministries of angels include rendering assistance to believers as God directs.

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We believe Satan was created holy but rebelled against the Creator, involving numerous angels in his fall, and introducing sin to the human race by the temptation of our first parents.

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We believe Satan was defeated in the death of Christ and will be tormented forever.

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We believe Satan’s control over Christians is limited to external

influences that may be resisted by the believer.

Scriptural References:

Hebrews 1:6; Psalm 34:7; Psalm 91:11; Hebrews 1:14; Revelation 5:11; Ezekiel 28:1-19; Genesis 3:1-5; Matthew 4:1-11; Revelation 20:10.

7. FUTURE EVENTS

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In the any-moment-coming of Jesus Christ for His church at which time all church saints will be raised, glorified and rewarded.

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Christ will return at the second coming to set up His millennial kingdom, to overthrow Satan, and to re-gather Israel to their promised land.

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In the physical resurrection of all the dead; the saved to life eternal, the unsaved to eternal judgment and separation from God in the lake of fire.

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The eternal state will begin following the judgment for the lost with believers of all time enjoying God forever.

Scriptural References:

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 1 Corinthians 15:22-28; Revelation 1:5-7; Revelation 19:11-16; Revelation 20:1-6; John 5:22; Romans 14:10-12; Revelation 21-22; John 14:1-3.