- I believe the Bible to be the inspired Word of God, without error, revealing the love of God and providing instruction on how to live in righteousness (1 Thes. 2:13, 2 Tim. 3:16-17, 2 Pet. 1:20-21).
- I believe there is one God, eternally existing as three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Deut. 6:4, Matt. 28:19, John 1:14, John 10:30, 2 Cor. 13:14).
- I believe God the Father is the eternal, unchanging, all-powerful, all-knowing, all-wise, all-loving, completely just and perfectly holy, sovereign Ruler and Sustainer of the universe (Gen. 1:1, Eph. 4:6, John 1:12-13, John 5:19-21, John 17:1-5, Isa. 40:21-28, Isa. 43:10-13, Isa. 46:8-11, Rom. 8:14-16).
- I believe Jesus Christ is the only begotten eternal Son of God who is fully God and fully man. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin. He is the perfect and sinless lamb of God who died on the cross for all of our sins. He was buried, resurrected, and ascended into heaven at the right hand of the Father to intercede for us. He will return to earth in power and glory to consummate God’s eternal plan by executing judgment and ushering in His Millennial Kingdom reign to be followed by the eternal state (John 1:1,14, John 1:18, John 3:16, Luke 1:30-35, Phil. 2:5-8, Col. 2:3,9, Mark 10:45, Acts 2:22-24, John 1:29, Rom. 3:25-26, Heb. 10:5-14, 1 Pet. 2:24, 1 Pet. 3:18, John 20:20, Phil. 3:20-21, Heb. 1:3, Rom. 8:34, 1 John 2:1, Acts 1:11, Heb. 9:28, 1 Thes. 4:13-18, 2 Thes. 2:7, Matt. 24:44, Rev. 19:11-21, Rev. 21-22).
- I believe the Holy Spirit, with salvation, imparts new life to the believer, baptizes the believer into the body of Christ (His church), permanently indwells the believer, and seals the believer unto the day of redemption. The Holy Spirit guides believers who are yielded to Him, enables believers to bear fruit, and empowers believers to break free from sin. The Holy Spirit gives spiritual gifts to believers for the purpose of edifying the church in accordance to scripture (1 Cor. 13:8, 1 Cor. 14:22, John 16:7-8, 1 Cor. 6:19, 1 Cor. 12:13, Eph. 1:13-14, Eph. 4:30, Gal. 5:16-17, Gal. 22-23, Rom. 8:5-13, 1 Pet. 4:10-11, Rom. 12:3-8).
- I believe man is the special creation of God, made in His own image. Man was created to glorify, worship, and serve God, and to have fellowship with Him. Man sinned against God, thus incurring both physical and spiritual death, which alienated him from God. Man’s nature was thus corrupted, making him lost, “dead in trespasses and sins,” and completely incapable of saving himself and coming back into the right relationship with God by his own merit or works (Gen. 1:26, Gen. 2:6,17, Gen. 3:17-24, Isa. 59:1-2, Rom. 3:9-19,23, Rom. 5:8, Luke 18:26-27, Eph. 2:13).
- I believe Satan is the instigator of evil and a real spirit being, not just the personification of evil. He is a fallen angel who, under the sovereign permission of God, has been given temporary rulership of the earth. He was defeated at the cross, but the execution of his judgment has been postponed by God until after the Millennial Kingdom when he will be cast into the eternal lake of fire. In the meantime, he deceives the world and seeks to establish his counterfeit kingdom on earth to discredit and blaspheme God and to tempt, accuse, attack, and destroy believers. He can be resisted by the believer through faith and reliance on the power of the Holy Spirit (Gen. 3:1-5, Isa. 14:12-17, Ezek. 28:11-19, Job 1-2, 1 John 5:19, 2 Cor. 11:14, 1 Tim. 3:6, 1 Pet. 5:8-9, James 4:7, Rev. 12:9, Rev. 20:1-3, Rev. 7-10).
- I believe salvation is the free gift of God’s grace provided by the shed blood of Jesus Christ on the cross. Salvation is evident by the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit and cannot be secured by man’s works or personal merit. Salvation is gained by placing faith in the finished work of Christ. Repentance is a turning toward God and away from sin, and is a part of but not separate from believing. “The Gospel is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes” and those who receive Jesus Christ by faith are born again, their are sins forgiven, become children of God, are a new creation in Christ, and “are sealed by the Holy spirit unto the day of redemption” being kept by the power of God (Eph. 1:7:13-14, John 1:12-13, John 3:1-7, John 14-16, 2 Cor. 5:17, Rom. 1:16, Rom. 10:9-10, Eph. 2:8-10, Rom. 8:14-17, Rom. 31-39, John 10:27-29, Rom. 14:6, Acts 26:20, 1 Pet. 1:3-5).
- I believe every Christian should live for Christ and not for himself. By the power of the indwelling Spirit, he should allow Christ to be made manifest through him to God’s glory. Each believer should mature and progressively become more like Jesus with ever increasing obedience to the Word of God. In the power of the Spirit, each believer should live a holy life, not fulfill the lusts of the flesh, exercise his spiritual gifts to build up the body of Christ, witness for Christ, be personally involved in making disciples to fulfill the great commission, perform good works, and bear fruit to the glory of God (Gal. 2:20, 1 Pet. 1:15-16, 1 Pet. 2:11, 2 Cor. 5:14-15, Rom. 6:11-13, Eph. 2:10, Eph. 4:11-12, Eph. 4:22-24, 1 Pet. 4:10-11, Acts 1:8, Matt. 28:18-20, Col. 1:10, John 15:8,16).
- I believe the church is the body of Christ of which Jesus is the Head and whose members are those who have truly received Christ by faith. Since all members of the body of Christ are united in Christ by the same Spirit, they should live in love, harmony and unity, being intent on the same purpose and accepting those sectarian or denominational practices which are based on a sincere interpretation of the Bible, which do not relate to substantive doctrinal matters, and which do not in practice cause disunity or hinder the ministry. The purpose of the church is to make Christ known to lost men and to make disciples, and glorify God on earth (Acts 1:8, 1 Cor. 12:12-27, Eph. 1:20-23, Eph. 4:1-6, Eph. 4:12-16, Matt. 28:18-20, John 17, Col. 1:24-29).
- I believe God’s plan for human sexuality is to be expressed only within the context of marriage, that God created man and woman as unique biological persons made to complete each other. God instituted marriage between male and female as the foundation of the family and the basic structure of human society. For this reason, I believe that marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female (Genesis 2:24, Matthew 19:5-6, Mark 10:6-9, Romans 1:26-27, 1 Corinthians 6:9).
- I believe human life is sacred from conception to its natural end (Psalm 139:13, Isaiah 49:1, Jeremiah 1:5).
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