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We Believe In..
• The verbal inspiration of the Holy Scriptures;
• The absolute trinity of the eternal Godhead: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit;
• The deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and His virgin birth;
• The payment for sin only by the blood of Christ;
• The personality and deity of the Holy Spirit;
• Full salvation by grace through faith and not by works;
• Divine healing in answer to believing prayer;
• The personal baptism in the Holy Spirit as received by the Apostles in
Acts 2:4;
• Water baptism by immersion at an age of accountability;
• The evangelization of the unsaved and the nations of the world;
• A balanced expression in public worship, between extreme fanaticism and ultra-ritualism;
• Tithing as God's financial plan;
• The free moral will of man, who can backslide, apostatize and be lost;
• The maintenance of good works and holy living;
• The everlasting punishment of the unbeliever;
• A literal heaven and life everlasting for all true believers;
• The personal, literal, bodily, premillenial coming of Jesus Christ;
• A future, literal 1,000 years reign of Christ on earth with all His saints;
• Christian tolerance to all denominations of the Christian faith;
• In essentials--unity, in non-essentials--liberty, in all things "charity." |
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Some Explanations for the Local Church..
• The Meaning of Church in the Local Sense: A local church is a
group of professing believers in Christ who have received Jesus Christ as
their personal savior and who have organized themselves for the purpose of doing
God's will.
• The Purpose of the Local Church: To glorify God, to evangelize, to
produce holy Christians, to care for its own (1 Tim 5) and to do good in
the world (Gal 6:10).
• The Founding of the Local Church: Christ was the founder (Matt
16:18; 1 Pet 2:4-8) in the sense that He was its teacher, builder, and the
sender of the Spirit who actually formed the Body of Christ.
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