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Our Statement of Doctrine
1. We Believe in the one God,
Self-Existent in three person. Coequal and Coeternal:
Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
2. We Believe in the
Bible, God's infallible word. Fully inspired by the Holy Spirit,
The supreme Authority for Faith and
practice.
3. We Believe in the deity of Jesus Christ who became man,
Being conceived of the Holy Ghost and
Born of a Virgin. He lived a sinless life and died
a Substitutionary death as a complete
sacrifice for the sins of all mankind.
He arose bodily from the dead and
ascended to the right hand of the
Father where he is now our
interceding high priest.
4. We Believe that
the Holy Spirit is a Divine person who Reveals Christ both in Ministry to the
world
by Restraining evil and by
convicting of sin and in a ministry to the Church in which he
indwells, Empowers, Guides and
teaches all Christians.
5. We Believe in
the Universal Atonement Christ provided for all mankind and that they who
repent
and believe in him are
justified and regenerated from the guilt and practice if sin.
6. We believe that
man was made in the image and likeness of God
and By Transgression incurred
guilt before God, Depravity of Soul and Spiritual death.
7. We believe in Entire
Sanctification as a definite experience Subsequent to regeneration.
It is wrought on the Basis of
Faith and consecration through the infilling the Holy Spirit
by which the Holy Spirit
testifies.
8. We Believe in
the progressive growth in grace toward Christian maturity through a
Consistent life of good works
from Faith in God and Obedience to his word.
This we believe to be a
necessary complement to the above mentioned Experience.
9. We Believe in the
true Church as the body of Christ and the temple of the Holy Spirit.
It is composed of all true
Believers in Christ. It was created by Him for worship
and fellowship and is
commissioned by him to publish the Gospel in all the world.
10. We Believe in the
Personal return of Christ who shall come with power and great Glory
to gather the Church to
himself, to establish his millennial kingdom
and to judge the quick and the
dead.
11. We believe in the
Resurrection of the just who shall enter into an eternal Heaven
and a Resurrection of the
unjust who shall go away into an eternal Hell.
12. We Believe that
Christ and his apostles Ordained three ordinances to be practiced by his
Church:
Water Baptism (Immersion), The
Lord's Supper, and Foot-washing.
13. We Keep Sunday as
the Lord's day because Christ arose from the dead on the first day of the week
and the early Church kept this day in
Commemoration of God's finished plan of Redemption.
We Should keep it as a day of Rest
and Worship.
14. In order to
Avoid confusion Speaking in Tongues is not practiced here.
(1Cor. Chapter 14.)
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