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  1. We believe in the plenary verbal inspiration of the Scriptures, which are without error in the original manuscripts, and which are the final authority of faith and practice (II Timothy 3:16, Romans 15:4, and II Peter 1:21).

  2. We believe in one God who eternally exists in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, who share the same essence and attributes, and are alone worthy of worship (Matthew 28:19-20, John 4:24, Acts 5:3-4, and Hebrew 1:3,8).

  3. We believe in the deity and virgin birth of Christ, thus being truly God and truly man, His substitutionary death for all mankind, His bodily resurrection, His present high priestly ministry and mediatorship, and His personal, visible, imminent, and pre-millenni­al return (Matthew 1:20-25, John 3:16, John 20:20, Romans 3:21-26, Philippians 2:5-8, I Thessalonians 1:10, I Timothy 2:6, and I John 2:1).

  4. We believe in the personality and deity of the Holy Spirit, and His ministry of convicting and regenerating sinners, and indwelling, anointing, sealing, and empowering all believers (Acts 1:8, Acts 5:3-4, Romans 8:9, I Corinthians 6:19, I Corinthians 12:13, Ephesians 4:30, and I John 2:27-28).

  5. We believe man was created in the image and likeness of God, and subsequently fell from the state of innocence, and became dead in sin.  We believe that this sin nature was passed to the entire human race and as a result man inherits a nature that is one of total depravity in which he is devoid of spiritual life, and incapa­ble, apart from divine grace, of pleasing God (Genesis 1:26-27, Romans 3:10-12, Romans 5:12, and Ephesians 2:1-3).

  6. We believe in the justification of the sinner solely by grace through faith in the work of Christ on the cross, the election of the believer, and the eternal character of his salvation in Christ (John 1:12-13, John 3:16-18, Acts 13:48, Romans 5:1, 6-9, Ephesians 1:7, Philippians 3:9, and II Timothy 1:12).

  7. We believe that the Church is the body of Christ, uniting all believers from Pentecost to the rapture at which time it will be caught up to be with Christ.  We believe in the independence of the local church as an autono­mous company of baptized believers which is to function in keeping the ordinances of water baptism and the Lord's table, bringing believers to maturity in Christ, enjoying fellowship, training believers for the work of ministry, and evangelizing the lost (Matthew 16:16-18, Matthew 28:19-20, Acts 2:42-47, I Corinthians 11:26, I Corinthians 12:12-27, and Ephesians 4:11-13).

  8. We believe in the personal, imminent, and pre-millennial return of Christ for his church.  We believe in the literal 1,000-year reign of Christ on earth following the 7-year tribulation in fulfillment of the Old Testament promises to Israel (Jeremiah 30:7, John 14:1-3, Romans 5:9, I Corinthians 15:51-52, I Thessalonians 1:10, I Thessalonians 4:13-18, Revelation 20:1-3).

  9. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the saved and unsaved. The saved will have immortality and eternal joy in the presence of God, and the unsaved will have eternal conscious suffering separated from the presence of God (Daniel 12:2, II Corinthians 5:8-10, II Thessalonians 1:5-10, Jude 1:6-7, and Revelation 20:11-15).

 

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