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What We Believe: Our Statement of Faith
- WE BELIEVE worship of God should be spiritual! Therefore we remain
flexible so the Holy Spirit may direct our worship.
- WE BELIEVE worship of God should be inspirational! Therefore we
give a great place to music in our worship.
- WE BELIEVE worship of God should be intelligent! Therefore, in our
services, we emphasize Bible teaching so God may instruct us how He
would be worshiped.
- WE BELIEVE worship of God is fruitful! Therefore we look for His
love in our lives as the greatest evidence that we are truly
worshiping Him.
- WE BELIEVE in the inerrancy of Scripture, that the Bible, Old and
New Testaments, in the original autographs, is the inspired,
infallible Word of God, a complete and final written revelation of
God.
- WE BELIEVE in one personal, transcendent, and holy God, the
creator of all, Who is eternal and who manifests Himself in three
separate persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
- WE BELIEVE that Jesus Christ, though fully God became a man for
the suffering of death, that He is the promised Messiah, born of a
virgin, lived a sinless life, provided for the atonement of our sins
by His vicarious death on the Cross, was bodily resurrected by the
power of the Holy Spirit, ascended back to the right hand of God the
Father, and ever lives to make intercession for us. After Jesus
ascended to Heaven, He poured out His Holy Spirit on the believers
in Jerusalem, enabling them to fulfill His command to preach the
Gospel to the entire world, an obligation shared by all believers
today.
- WE BELIEVE that all people are by nature separated from God and
responsible for their own sin, but that salvation, redemption, and
forgiveness are freely offered to all by the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ. When a person repents of sin and accepts Jesus Christ as
personal Savior and Lord, trusting Him to save, that person is
immediately born again and sealed by the Holy Spirit, all his/her
sins are forgiven, and that person becomes a child of God.
- WE BELIEVE in the person and work of the Holy Spirit who indwells,
seals, and empowers every believer, baptizing them into the Body of
Christ. We further believe that the Holy Spirit will come upon any
believer who asks in faith, enabling him/her to preach the Gospel in
power. We also believe all of the gifts of the Holy Spirit mentioned
in the Scriptures are valid for today if they are exercised within
the scriptural guidelines. We believe that love is more important
than all the gifts, and without this love all exercise of spiritual
gifts is worthless.
- WE BELIEVE Jesus Christ is the head of the Body, His church, and
that church government should he simplistic rather than a complex
bureaucracy. We desire to be led by the Holy Spirit in all the
functions and directions of the ministry of the church.
- WE BELIEVE in the pre-tribulational rapture of the church, and we
believe that the second coming of Christ with His saints to rule on
the earth will be personal, pre-millennial, and visible. This
motivates us to holy living, heartfelt worship, committed service,
diligent study of God's Word, regular fellowship, and participation
in baptism by immersion and in Holy Communion.
- WE BELIEVE that the Word of God should be taught in such a way
that its message can be applied to an individual's life, leading
that person to greater maturity in Christ.
- WE BELIEVE that we should reject doctrinal viewpoints or spiritual
phenomena which are based solely on experience. We look to the Word
of God for the basis of all our faith and practice.
- WE BELIEVE in a real devil called Satan who, along with all his
evil angels, called demons, is destined to spend eternity in the
Lake of Fire, and who now seeks to deceive the believers and defeat
the work of God, but who can be resisted by believers who are
in-dwelt by the Holy Spirit, protected by God, and interceded for by
Jesus Christ our Lord.
- WE BELIEVE that the nation of Israel has a special place in God's
plan and that all the promises of God to Israel will be fulfilled.
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