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| We believe the Bible... |
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consisting
of the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments, to be divinely inspired,
inerrant, and only infallible Word of God. |
I Thessalonians 2:13; II Timothy 3:16-17; II Peter 1:19-20 |
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| We believe that there is one triune God... | as
revealed in the Bible, eternally existent in the persons of the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These three are one, but distinct in
person and function. |
Matthew
3:16-17; Matthew
28:19; I John 5:7 |
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| We believe God the Father is the first person of the trinity. | As
infinite Spirit, He is the source, support, and end of all things. He is
the creator, speaker of revelation, author of redemption, and sovereign
of history. |
Exodus 3:13-14; Isaiah 43:10-11; Revelation 4:11 |
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| We believe that Jesus Christ is the second person of the trinity. | We
believe in His deity, his virgin birth, sinless life, miracles,
vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, His bodily
resurrection, and His bodily ascension to the right hand of God the
Father. |
Matthew 1:18,22-23; John 1:1,14; I Corinthians 15:3-4; Colossians 1:16-17; Colossians 2:9 | |||
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| We believe that the Holy Spirit is the third person of the trinity. | He
is the agent of conviction, regeneration, indwelling, baptism,
sanctification, and illumination of all who are born into God’s family
through Jesus Christ. |
John
14:16-17; I Corinthians 2:9-11; I Corinthians 12:13; II Peter 1:21 |
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| We
believe the universe and everything in it was created... |
by God in six literal days. | Genesis
1; Exodus 20:11; Proverbs 16:4; Isaiah 44:24 |
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| We believe that salvation is the free gift of God... | received
only by repentance and personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His
finished work. |
John
3:16; Acts 17:29-31; Romans 4:4-5; Ephesians 2:8-9 |
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| We believe in the resurrection... | of
both the saved and the lost. Those who are saved will be raised to
eternal life, and those who are lost will be raised to eternal
damnation. |
I
Corinthians 15:12,20; II Corinthians 5:10; Revelation 20:11-15 |
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| We
believe that God has ordained the local church... |
for the perpetuation of His truth and work in the world. | Acts 2:41-42:
Ephesians 3:21; Ephesians 4:11-13; I Timothy 3:15 |
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| We
believe in the literal, visible return of our Savior, Jesus Christ... |
for all believers. The rapture of the saints will be followed by the Lord's wrath upon the unbelieving world. | John
14:3; Acts 1:10-11; I Corinthians 15:52-54; I Thessalonians 4:14-18 |
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| We believe in a personal new birth. | We
believe that in order to be saved from Hell, all men must be born again
through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, God's Son. The new birth is a
result of repentance from sin and faith in Jesus Christ. |
John 1:12-13; John 3:3; Ephesians 2:1,5 |
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| We believe in the blood atonement for sin. | The salvation of sinners is wholly by grace, that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, shedding His blood on the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice. | Romans 5:9; Ephesians 2:13; Hebrews 9-10; Revelation 1:5 | |||
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