Article I: The Holy Scripture

We believe in the divine inspiration of the Scriptures. We believe that in both the Old and New Testaments, each word, to the very parts of its letters, is by the guidance of God and the Holy Spirit. The result is the very Word of God; inerrant in its original writings and the final authority for faith and life.

[ Matt. 5:18, John 16:12,13, II Tim. 3:16,17, II Peter 1:20,21, Gal. 3:16 ]

Article II: The Godhead

1. We believe in the One God who has revealed himself in three equal, but different persons; God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit
   
   [ Deut. 6:4, Matt. 28:19, John 3:34-35, I Cor. 12:3-6, I Tim. 3:16 ]
   
2. We believe in the sovereignty of God.
   
   [ Deut. 10:14 &17, I Sam. 2:6-8, Job 12:9,10&16,17, Acts 17:24-26, Rom. 9:15-24 ]

Article III: The Person of Jesus Christ

1. We believe in the pre-existence, eternity, of Jesus Christ and that His attributes declare His Deity.
   
   [ John 1:1-15, John 17:5-24, John 3:13-15, John 8:58, Matt. 28:18, Eph. 1:3-5, Col. 1:16,17, Col. 2:9, Heb.1:5-14, I Peter 3:22, Rev. 1:8, Rev. 19:16, Micah 5:2, I Peter 1:18-20 ]
   
   
2. We believe that Jesus became man without ceasing to be God, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.
   [ Isa. 7:14, Luke 1:35, John 1:1,2,14 ]
   
   
3. We believe in the sin free life of Jesus Christ and that His death on the cross was a true substitute for the wages of our sinfulness. We believe that God, by His grace, sent His Son for this purpose and that redemption is through faith in His blood and by His righteousness.
   
   [ Rom. 3:23-35, II Cor. 5:21, Eph. 1:7, I Peter 2:24]
   
   
4. We believe in the literal, physical, resurrection from the dead of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
   [ Matt. 28:5-7, I Cor.15 ]
   
   
5. We believe that our Lord Jesus Christ ascended to Heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God, where as our high priest He fulfils the ministry of intercessor and advocate.
   [ Acts 1:9,10, Rom. 8:34, Heb. 7:24-28, 9:24, I John 2:1,2 ]
   
   
6. We believe that our Lord will come again in like manner as He ascended into Heaven.
   [ Matt. 24:29-31, Mark 13:24-27, Luke 21:25-28, John 14:23-28, Acts 1:9-11 ]

Article IV: The Person of The Holy Spirit

1. We believe that the Holy Spirit is a Person who convicts the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment; and, that He is the Supernatural Agent in regeneration, baptizing all believers into the Body of Christ, indwelling and sealing them unto the day of redemption.
   
   [ John 16:8-11, Rom. 8:9, I Cor. 12:12-14, II Cor. 3:1-6, Eph. 1:13, 14 ]
   
   
2. We believe that He is the Divine Teacher who guides believers into all truth.
   [ John 16:13, I Cor. 3:9-16, Eph. 5:18, I John 2:20&27 ]

Article V: The Total Depravity of Man

1. We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God and that in Adam’s sin the human race fell. By this sin our first parents fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and we in them: death coming upon all, all dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all faculties and parts of soul and body to the total depravity of man.
   
   
2. We believe that man, of himself, is utterly unable to remedy his lost condition.
   [ Gen. 1:26-27, Gen. 6:5, Jer. 17:9, John, 6:44, Rom. 3:10-19, Rom. 3:22-23, Rom. 5:12, Rom. 8:7, Eph. 2:1-3, Eph. 2:12, Tit. 1:15, Tit. 3:3-5 ]

Article VI: Salvation

1. We believe that God, in His appointed time, effectually calls the believers by His Word and Spirit, out of the state of sin and death in which they are by nature, to His grace and salvation by belief in Jesus Christ.
   
   
2. We believe that He enlightens their minds Spiritually that they may understand the things of God, changing their heart and their will that they would come freely to Jesus Christ by His grace.
   
   
3. We believe that those who are effectually called by God are also freely justifiede, by forgiveness of sin and by the righteousness of Christ.
   
   
4. We believe that salvation and justification are by trusting in nothing other than the righteousness of Jesus Christ, receiving and abiding in Him and His righteousness by faith, which faith we have not of ourselves; it is the gift of God.
   
   [ John 1:12, John 6:35-37, John 6:44, Acts 26:18, Rom. 3:24, Rom. 4:5-8, Rom. 8:3, Rom. 8:30, Rom. 11:7, Eph. 1:7-11, Eph. 1:19, Eph. 2:1-10, Phil. 3:8-9, II Thes. 2:13-14 ]

Article VII: The External Security and Assurance of Believers

1. We believe that all the redeemed, once saved, are kept by God’s power and are thus secure in Christ forever. As salvation is not by the works of man, neither is the perseverance of the Saints by the hand of man.
   [ John 10:27-30, Rom. 8:1&38,39, Phil. 1:6, I Cor. 1:4-8, I Peter 1:5, I John 2:19 ]
   
   
2. We believe in the infallible assurance of faith, founded on the blood and righteousness of Christ revealed by the Gospel and by the testimony of the Spirit of God witnessing with our spirits that we are the children of God.
   [ Rom. 8:15-16, Heb. 6:11-20, I John 5:1-13 ]
   
   
3. We believe in the assurance obtainable by a changed lifestyle. Such change being worked in us by our Lord and the Holy Spirit.
   [ I John 1:6-7, 2:2-29, 3:7-10, 3:14-15, 3:17-19, 3:24, 4:20-21, 5:12, 13 , 17 ]

Article VIII: The Two Natures of the Believer

1. We believe that every saved person possesses two natures, with provision made for victory of the new nature over the old nature through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit; and, that all claims to the eradication of the old nature in this life are unscriptural.
   [ Rom. 6:13, Rom. 8:12-13, Gal. 5:16-25, Eph. 4:22-24, Col. 3:10, I Peter 1:14-16, I John 3:5-9 ]

Article IX: Separation

1. A. We believe that all the saved should live in such manner as not to bring reproach upon their Savior and Lord; and, that separation from all religious apostasy , all worldly and sinful pleasures, practices and associations is commanded of God. .
   [ Rom12:1-2, Rom. 14:13, II Cor. 6:14, II Cor.7:1, II Tim. 3:1-5, I John 2:15-17, II John 9-11 ]
   
   
2. We believe that by our separation unto God, we are afforded great liberty; but that this liberty must never be used as an occasion to the flesh or an offense to the brethren.
   [ Rom. 13:13-14, Rom. 14:13-21, I Cor. 6:12, Gal. 5:13, Titus 2:11-15 ]

Article X: Missions

1. We believe that it is the obligation of the saved to witness by life and by word to the truths of the Holy Word of God and to seek proclamation of the Gospel to all mankind.
   [ Mark 16:15, Acts 1:8, II Cor. 5:19-20 ]

Article XI: Baptism and The Lord's Supper

1. We believe that baptism of believers is ordained of God and appointed by our Lord Jesus Christ to be continued in His Church to the end of the age. We believe that all who have come to Christ should be baptized after their conversion as a profession of repentance toward God and a confession of faith and obedience to our Lord Jesus Christ and that these are the only proper subjects of this ordinance. We do not believe in infant baptism as it is not scriptural. We practice baptism by immersion, unless physically impractical, but do not exclude from fellowship those who have been baptized by other legitimate means.
   [ Matt. 28:19-20, Mark 16:16, Acts 8:35-38, Acts 18:8, Acts 22:16 ]
   
   
2. We believe that the observance of the Lord’s Supper was ordained by our Lord Jesus Christ on the same night wherein He was betrayed, to be observed by His Church until the end of the age. We believe it is ordained for the remembrance and shewing forth of the sacrifice in His death, for the confirmation of the faith of the believers in the benefits thereof and as a bond and pledge of their communion with Him and with one another.
   [ I Cor. 10:16-21, I Cor. 11:23-26 ]
   
   
3. We believe that the cracker [ bread] and the juice [ wine] used in observing the ordinance of Christ are truly representative of His Body and His Blood; however, in substance and nature remain only bread and wine. [ I Cor. 11:27, I Cor. 26:28 ]
   
   
4. We do not restrict our observance of the Lord’s Supper to our membership. It open to all who in truth call Jesus Christ both Lord and Savior. In so doing we can share this time of communion with believers outside of our immediate church family. We warn that all who would take of this ordinance unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord and eateth and drinketh judgment to himself.
   [ I Cor. 11:27-30 ]

Article XII: The Church

1. We believe that the church, which is the body and the espoused bride of Christ, is a spiritual organism made up of all born again persons of this present age.
   [ Eph. 1:22-23, Eph. 5:25-27, I Cor. 12:12-14, II Cor. 11:2 ]
   
   
2. We believe that the establishment and continuance of local churches is clearly taught and defined in the New Testament Scriptures.
   [ Acts 14:27, Acts 20:17, Acts 20:28-32, I Tim. 3:1-13, Titus 1:5-11 ]

Article XIII: Dispensationalism

1. We believe in a normal, literal, grammatical, historical interpretation which produces a dispensational view of the Bible. But we reject the extreme teaching known as “ hyper-dispensationalism”, such as that teaching which opposes either the Lord’s Table or water baptism as a scriptural means of testimony for the church in this age.
   [ Matt. 28:19-20, Acts 2:41-42, Acts 18:8, I Cor. 11:23-26 ]

Article XIV: The Personality of Satan

1. A. We believe that Satan is a person, the author of sin and the cause of the fall ; that he is the open and declared enemy of God and man and that he shall be eternally punished in the lake of fire.
   [ Job 1:6-7, Isa. 14:12-17, Matt. 4:2-11, Matt. 25:41, Rev. 20:10 ]

Article XV: The Second Advent of Christ

1. We believe in that “Blessed Hope”, the personal, imminent, pretribulation and premillennial coming of the Lord Jesus Christ for His redeemed ones and in His subsequent return to earth, with His saints, to establish His millennial kingdom.
   [ I Thess. 1:10, I Thess. 4:13-18, I Thess. 5:9, Rev. 3:10, Rev. 19:11-16, Rev. 20:1-6, Zech. 14:4-11 ]

Article XVI: The External State

1. We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment.
   [ Matt. 25:46, John 5:28-29, John 11:25-26, Rev. 20:5, 6, 12, 13 ]
   
   
2. We believe that the souls of the redeemed are, at death, absent from the body and present with the Lord, where in conscious bliss they await the first resurrection, when spirit, soul and body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord.
   [ Luke 23:43, II Cor. 5:8, Philip. 1:23, Philip 3:21, I Thess. 4:16-17 ]
   
   
3. We believe that the souls of unbelievers remain, after death, in conscious misery until the second resurrection, when with soul and body reunited they shall appear at the Great White Throne judgment and shall be cast into the lake of fire, not to be annihilated, but to suffer everlasting conscious punishment.
   
   [ Matt. 25:41-46, Mark 9:43-48, Luke 16:19-26, II Thess. 1:7-9, Rev. 20:11-15, Jude 6:7 ]

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