In order to identify the church as conservative
in
theology and
evangelical
in spirit, we set forth this general statement of
fundamental beliefs:
We
believe in the verbal inspiration of the whole Bible (II Tim
3:1; I Pet 1:21).
We
believe that there is one God, eternally
existent in three
persons; Father, Son and Holy Spirit (Ex 33:1; Jn 1:1, 14; Acts
5:3-4).
We
believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus
Christ (Rev 22:13),
in His virgin birth (Matt 1:23), in His sinless life (Heb 4:15),
in His miracles (Matt 11:2-5), in His vicarious and atoning death
through His shed blood (I Pet 2:24), in His bodily resurrection
(I Cor 15:3-5), in His ascension to the right hand of the Father
(Acts 1:9-11), and in His personal and visible return in power
and glory (Matt 24:29-31).
We
believe that all people are born sinners and
alienated from
God (Rom 3:23) and therefore in order to receive eternal life,
one must be born again (Jn 3:3) by confessing that Jesus
is Lord and believing in one's heart that God has raised Him from
the dead (Rom 10:9), that all are justified on the single
ground of faith in the shed blood of Christ, and that only by
God's grace through faith alone are we saved (Eph 2:8-9).
We
believe that all believers should be water
baptized in obedience
to the command of our Lord Jesus Christ as a sign of their spiritual
death, burial and resurrection unto the new life in Christ (Matt
28:18-20).
We
believe in the present ministry of the Holy
Spirit by whose
indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life (Rom
8:9,23-24).
We
believe in the resurrection of both the
saved and the unsaved;
they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that
are unsaved unto the resurrection of damnation (Rev 20:4-5,12-15).
