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STATEMENT OF FAITH

• We believe in one triune God, eternally existing in three Persons – Father, Son and Holy Spirit -- co-eternal in being, co-identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory and having the same attributes and perfection.

• We believe that the eternal Son of God became man, without ceasing to be god, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, in order that He, the Lord Jesus Christ might reveal God and redeem sinful men.  We believe that He accomplished our redemption through His death on the cross as a representative, vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice, and that our justification is made sure by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead.  We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to heaven, and is now exalted at the right hand of God, where, as our High Priest, He fulfills the ministry of Representative, Intercessor, and Advocate.

• We believe that the Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Trinity, though omnipresent from all eternity, took up His abode in the world in a special sense on the day of Pentecost according to the divine promise, dwells in every believer, and by His baptism which occurs at conversion unites all believers to Christ in one body, and that He, as the indwelling one, is the source of all power and all acceptable worship and service.

• We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the verbally inspired Word of God, the final authority for faith and live, without error in the original writings, infallible, and God breathed.

• We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam’s sin the human race fell into depravity and inherited a sinful nature, became alienated from God, and that man is unable to remedy his lost condition.

• We believe that Satan is a literal, personal, spirit being, that he is the originator of evil and the arch enemy of God and man, and that his eternal punishment along with the demons is certain. We believe that salvation is a gift to everyone, made available through the grace of God totally apart from meritorious works on the part of sinful men. This gift is personally received by faith in Jesus Christ.

• We believe that salvation is a gift made available through the grace of God for everyone, totally apart from meritorious works on the part of sinful men. This gift is personally received by faith in Jesus Christ.

• We believe that the Church, which is the body and espoused bride of Christ, is a spiritual organism and made up of born-again persons.  We believe that the establishment and continuance of local churches is clearly taught and defined in the New Testament Scriptures.  We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ left two ordinances to be observed by the local church in commemoration of His person and work, Baptism by immersion and observance of the Lord’s Supper.

• We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment.

• We believe in the sure return of the Lord Jesus Christ to establish His kingdom on earth, that this second coming will be a literal, bodily personal return, and that His coming for His bride, the Church, constitutes the “blessed hope” set before us, for which we should be constantly looking.

• We believe that it is the obligation of the saved to witness by life and by word to the truths of the Holy Scripture and to seek to proclaim the Gospel to all mankind.

• We believe that the civil government is appointed by God for the interest and good order of society.  Each individual should obey the laws of the land except in matters contrary to the clear teaching of the Bible.

• We believe that the Church and the State are distinct and separate each serving God’s purposes and that there should be no undue intrusion on the one into the affairs of the other.