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I. THE HOLY SCRIPTURES
     God has imparted His message to the minds and hearts of His appointed servants so that the very words of the original text have been given to mankind by God Himself. The Bible is the complete and infallible word of God.
This historical document is made a living reality by the illumination of the Holy Spirit.
( Amos 3:7; 2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:21)

II. GOD
     God is a spirit; and they that worship Him must worship Him in the spirit and in truth.
(John 4:24)
     We believe in God, a Spirit and a Person, infinite, eternal, and immutable in being, wisdom, power, holiness,justice, goodness and truth; sovereign.
(Deuteronomy 4:15-18; Deuteronomy 33:26-27)

III. THE HOLY TRINITY
     We believe that the essential nature of God is single and unique, but yet is manifest in three persons; God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, and that these three are one God. They constitute the eternal Godhead.
(Mark 12:29; 2 Corinthians 13:14

A. GOD THE FATHER
     The Eternal One, whose Fatherly love is forever bestowed upon Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, and upon all true believers who are His children.
(John 17; Ephesians 3;14-19)

B. GOD THE SON
     The one who is equal in every divine distinction with God the Father. He is the Eternal Logos and only begotten Son, coexistent with the Father. Without any essential change in His Divine Person. He became man in the "fullness of time" by the miracle of the Virgin Birth, thus to continue forever as both true God and true Man, one Person with two natures. The second Person of the Triune God, Jesus of Nazareth and Messiah or Christ, has been manifested by His miraculous and supernatural birth, by His holy and supernatural life on earth, by His suffering and death according to the scriptures, by His bodily resurrection from the dead and by His miraculous and bodily ascent into heaven where He now intercedes for His own.
( Isaiah 7:14, 9:6 53:5,6 Mathew 1:23; Luke 24:5-8, 36-43; John 1:1,14; Acts 1:9-11; 1 Corinthians 15:3,4; Colossians 2:9; Philippians 2:5-8; Hebrews 4:14, 9:24; 1 John 2:1)

C. GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT
     The one who is the third Person of the Triune of God., equal in every divine perfection with God the Father, and God the Son, eternal. He convinces the world of sin, righteousness and judgment, convicts and regenerates sinners who believe, and indwells, baptizes, seals, empowers, guides, teaches, and sanctifies all who become children of God through Christ.
(Matthew 28:19; John 3:5, 14:26, 15:26, 16:7-11; Romans 8:14, 16; 1 Corinthians 6:19, 12:13; Galatians 5:22,23; Ephesians 4:30, 5:18; 1 Peter 1:2)

IV. MAN
A. Creation
     We believe that man was the direct creation of God, spirit, soul, and body; that God created man in His likeness and divine image for fellowship and communion with Himself; that man was created without sin.
(Genesis 1:26-28, 2:7)

B. Fall
     We believe that Adam, the first man, disobeyed God's explicit commands and thereby fell into sin through transgression; that Adam, the natural head of the human race, thus became a sinful creature and progenitor of a fallen race who are universally sinful in both nature and practice; that man, therefore, is totally depraved in the sense that his whole being is is affected and cursed by sin, so that he cannot in this state please God. He is unrighteous and lost. He is unrighteous in an absolute sense and can only accomplish relative good. He is guilty and condemned in his natural state and completely lost apart from God.
(Genesis 3:1-24, 5:3; Romans 3:23, 5:12; Ephesians 2:3)

C. Redemption
We believe that:
1. Man's redemption is accomplished only through complete, sufficient, vicarious, atonement of Jesus Christ, who shed His blood for our sins, the just and unjust.
(Romans 3:21-27; 1 Peter 2:24)

2. The Holy Spirit convicts and regenerates the man so that there is an immediate turning in the faith to Christ Jesus, for pardon and redemption. Salvation is the free gift of God to man, received only by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
(John 7:63; Ephesians 2:8-9)

3. Man, justified by faith in Jesus Christ, is saved and has a new position of righteousness and holy standing before God, in which he is called a son of God by virtue of his having become a new creation in Jesus Christ through spiritual regeneration.
(John 1:12; Romans 5:1,8: 14, 10:10; 2 Corinthians 5:17, 1 John 3:1,2)

4. Redeemed man, thus placed before God and Christ, is to walk in newness of life through the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit.
(John 15:1-16;Romans 6:4; Ephesians 4:17, 5:2)

5. At death, the spirits and souls of these who have trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, pass immediately in His presence and their remain in conscious bliss until the Resurrection of the glorified body whereupon soul and body reunited shall be associated with Him in glory.
(Luke 16:19-26; 2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23; Colossians 1:5)

V. THE CHURCH
     We believe that the true church is made up of believers from all nations who are baptized into one body by the Holy Spirit. This personal relationship to Christ according to the New Testament, along with the expressed intention of walking with Him, are the only conditions to be met for membership in the local Church.
(Matthew 16:18; Acts 2:42 - 47; Romans 12:5; 1 Corinthians 12:12-27; Ephesians 1:20-24, 4:3-10; Colossians 3:14-15)

VI. IN THE FUTURE
     We believe that our Lord Jesus Christ will return personally and bodily to glorify His people, and mete out rewards to His own. After this, He will bring eternal and conscious judgment upon the wicked and upon Satan.
(Acts 1:11; 2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 3:20; Revelation 20:11-15)