![]() We believe that humans were created, male and female, in the image of God and expressly for his glory that they sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death, but spiritual death which is separation from God that all human beings are sinners because of their inherent sin nature which produces sinful acts therefore, humans are utterly unable to remedy their lost condition by their own power. We believe that the Holy Spirit is a person, that He is God, that He possesses all the divine attributes, that He is the interpreter of the infallible Word of God, that He baptizes and indwells all believers at the moment of their regeneration, that He empowers believers for ministry and that it is the duty of every believer to be filled with the Holy Spirit. We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, His preexistence and complete deity, that He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin, that He was both God and man in the flesh, that He lived a sinless life and died on the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice for our sin, that He was raised literally and physically from the dead on the third day, that He ascended into heaven to the Father's right hand where He is the Head of the Church and intercedes for believers, and that He is coming again personally, bodily, visibly to this earth. We believe that He is the creator of all that is, that He concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of men, that He hears and answers prayer, and that He saves from sin and spiritual death all who come to Him through Jesus Christ. We believe that God the Father is spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in His being, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth. We believe that God eternally exists in three persons - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit - and that these three are one God, having precisely the same nature, attributes, and perfections, and worthy of precisely the same homage, confidence, and obedience. We also believe that all the Scriptures were designed for practical instruction. We believe that all the Scriptures center around the Lord Jesus in His person and work in His first and second coming, and that no portion, even the Old Testament, is properly read or understood until it leads to Him. We believe the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, to be verbally inspired and completely inerrant in the original manuscripts and to be the supreme and final authority for what we believe and how we live. To encourage one another and work together as described in 1 Corinthians 3:8-9, "The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. Ministry is not an issue of duty, but rather, gratefully using gifts God gives as it states in Ephesians 4:11-12, "It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up. so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ." (NIV) To build up one another as defined in Ephesians 4:11-16, ". To fulfill the Great Commission of Matthew 28:19-20, making "disciples of all nations and baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." (NIV) ![]()
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