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Belief Statement

The Bible is the Word of God.  It is not enough to say that the Bible contains the Word of God.  Every part of the Bible is inspired because the authors of the Bible wrote under the direct control of God.  God guided these men in writing the very words.  Through the Bible God speaks to us, and through prayer we speak to God.  In the last chapter of the Bible, God warns men against adding to the Bible or taking away from it.

 

God

The Bible does not seek to prove the existence of God.  The fact is there is a God and it is found throughout the Scriptures.  The first verse of the Bible is an example.  “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” The man who says that there is no God is called a fool in Psalm 14:1.  Creation must have a creator. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit and these three are one.

 

Jesus The Christ

The deity of Christ means that Christ is God. Jesus Christ is the son of God; He was conceived by the Holy Ghost.  He was born of a virgin.  Yet he was truly man, possessing a body, soul and spirit.  As a man, He was absolutely sinless. Christ came in human form in order to reveal the Father; sacrifice Himself by dying on the cross for our sins and to Defeat the works of the devil. On the third day He rose from the dead, ascended into heaven, at the right hand of God, He is now our High Priest and Advocate.

 

The Holy Spirit

The third Person in the Godhead, was sent by Christ, on His ascension, to use the Word of God to convince men of their sin; to lead them to put their trust in Christ; to indwell each person on believing; and to guide each born-again person into all truth. He then reveals through the Word the way of repentance unto salvation through faith in Christ and His finished work.  He  indwells, fills,  guide, instruct, and empower  the believer for godly living and service.

 

Salvation

Salvation comes from the word salvage, which means saving or keeping something thought to be worthless or useless.  In spite of our imperfections the Bible says that if you repent of your sins and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, you are saved.  Saved from that lake of fire and given eternal life in Heaven.  Salvation is free!

 

Future Events

Jesus is coming back again.  There will be a bodily resurrection of all the dead.  The Bible says the dead in Christ shall rise first.  What a day of rejoicing for the believers the ones who accepted Jesus into their heart and life to spend eternity in the presence of God.  But the unbeliever to judgment and everlasting conscious punishment.

 

The Church

When you receive the Lord Jesus into your heart, you are saved  You become part of God's family.  When you obey the Lord Jesus and follow Him in baptism, you become a member of the local church in which you were baptized.  A local church is a group of baptized believers who have voluntarily joined themselves together to carry out what we call the “Great Commission.”  THE GREAT COMMISSION SAYS:  Matthew 28:19,20:

“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:  Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.”

Jesus is the Head of the Church.

 

Baptism and Communion

Christ gave to the church what we call doctrines and ordinances.  The doctrines of the church are its beliefs and teachings.  The ordinances of a church are the things He said to be observed.  They are called ordinances because He commanded them or ordered them.  In the New Testament Church there are two ordinances.  One is baptism and the other is the Lord's Supper (Communion).  Baptism is a burial and a resurrection.  We are buried with Christ in the likeness of His death; and we are raised in the likeness of His resurrection.  Baptism is only for believers.  You must be saved before you can be baptized.  We are obeying Christ when we are baptized.  We are baptized by immersion.

 

The Lord's Supper was instituted by our Savior the night He was betrayed and delivered to die for our sins on the cross.  No one is saved by partaking of the Lord's Supper.  It is a memorial of the death of the Lord Jesus.  We are to remember what He did for us on the cross.  Those who have trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior and have followed Him in baptism may partake of the Lord's Supper.