ARTICLES OF FAITH

♦ We believe in one God, eternally existent as God the Father, God the Son, and God

the Holy Spirit.

♦ We believe that the Bible, composed of the Old and New Testaments, is God's
inspired and infallible Word, and is the supreme standard and final authority for all
conduct, faith, and doctrine.

♦ We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life,
in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death, in His bodily resurrection, in his
ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His premillennial personal return in
power and glory.

♦ We believe that man was created in the image of God, but by willful transgressions
became sinful and is justly under the condemnation and wrath of Almighty God.

♦ We believe that the only salvation from this guilt and condemnation is through faith
in the righteousness and atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that this salvation
is the free gift of God's love and grace.

♦ We believe in the personality of the Holy Spirit and that His ministry is to reveal
Christ to men, to convict of sin, to regenerate repentant sinners and, by His presence
and power, to sanctify the lives of the redeemed.

♦ We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ instituted the ordinances of baptism and
communion; that baptism is only to be administered upon profession of faith in
Christ, by immersion, thereby declaring our faith in a crucified, buried, and risen
Savior; that communion is only for believers, is to be preceded by faithful self-
examination, and is in remembrance of the Lord's death until He comes.

♦ We believe that a New Testament church is a body of believers, baptized by
immersion, associated for worship, service, and the spread of the gospel of the grace
of God to all the world.

♦ We believe that there will be a resurrection of the just and the unjust; the just, having been redeemed by the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, to be with Him
throughout eternity in glory; the unjust, having died impenitent and unreconciled to
God, to eternal condemnation in hell.

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