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Our Faith
The Bible
is the inspired, infallible, authoritative Word of God and should be the supreme
and final authority in our lives and faith. There is
one God who exists and reveals Himself in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit. Jesus
Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, lived a sinless life, died for our sins, was
raised from the dead and is at the right hand of the Father as true God and true
man. All mankind
was created in the image of God, but fell from relationship with God through
voluntary disobedience. Only through accepting Jesus Christ's substitutionary
sacrifice of His shed blood for our sins, can we be forgiven and restored into
fellowship with God. We believe
in the personal and imminent return of our Lord and the following bodily
resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting joy to the saved and
the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost. The church
is comprised of all those who acknowledge Jesus as Lord and Savior and that
Scripture instructs believers to identify and regularly assemble with other
believers to devote themselves to worship, prayer, teaching of the Bible,
fellowship, and works of service. At the
point of salvation the Holy Spirit fills each believer to be a source of
strength, assurance, and wisdom. Every believer has available to them a distinct
and subsequent experience as promised by the Father known as the Baptism of the
Holy Spirit, which is evidenced by speaking in a heavenly prayer language as the
Spirit gives utterance. The Holy
Spirit has supernatural abilities to distribute to Christians for the
instruction and empowering of every believer and that, when operated in balance
and order, will bring God glory. Water
baptism by immersion in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, on the
authority of Jesus' name, should be followed by all believers as a public
profession of their faith in Christ. Healing is
for the physical ills of the human body. It is wrought by the power of God
through the prayer of faith and by the laying on of hands. It is provided for in
the atonement of Christ and is the privilege of every believer today. |
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