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Statement of Faith & Core Beliefs
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BIBLE:

BIBLE: We believe that the Bible, both the Old and New Testament is inspired, inerrant, and infallible in the original writings. The sixty-six books of the Bible are the complete and divine revelation of God to man, making the Bible the final authority for faith and life.

GOD: We believe in one triune God, eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, each co-existing in being co-identical in nature, coequal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections.
JESUS CHRIST: We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, became man, and (without ceasing) is God. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, in order that He might reveal God and redeem mankind from their sins. Today He is alive and seated at the right hand of God the Father, acting on our behalf as our High Priest.
HOLY SPIRIT: We believe that the Holy Spirit is a person who convicts the world of its sin and guilt. He regenerates sinners and is in the process of transforming true believers to the image of Jesus Christ. Upon believing in Jesus, the Holy Spirit baptizes the believers into the body of Christ, (the church) and gives gifts to believers for the edification of the church.
THE RETURN OF CHRIST: We believe in the blessed hope, the personal, imminent return of Christ who will rapture His church prior to the seven year of Tribulation period. At the end of the Great Tribulation, Christ will personally and visibly return with His saints to establish his earthly messianic kingdom which was promised to the nation of Israel.
MANKIND
We believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death, but also spiritual death. As a result, all are separated from God by their sin and hopeless apart from the salvation found in Jesus Christ alone.
SALVATION
SALVATION: Salvation can only be obtained by believing in the literal death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. One cannot work for their salvation but only believe in what God did by sending His only begotten Son as our substitute. Salvation is a gift from God and must be received by faith alone.
THE CHURCH: We believe that the church (which is the body and espoused bride of Christ) is solely made up of born again believers. The establishment and continuance of local churches is clearly taught and defined in the New Testament. The responsibility of the church is to glorify God and fulfil the Great Commission.
THE ETERNAL STATE
We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the believers to eternal life, and unbelievers to judgment and everlasting punishment.
ORDINANCES: We recognize Baptism by immersion and Lord’s supper as the scriptural ordinances of obedience for the church in this age.
MARRIAGE: We believe that God instituted the marriage covenant as between a man and a woman.