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About Me
Statement of Faith
- The Bible, consisting of all the books of the Old and New Testament,
is the Word of God, a supernaturally given revelation from God
Himself, concerning Himself, His being, nature, character, will
and purposes; and concerning man, his nature, need and duty and
destiny. The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are without
error or misstatement in their moral and spiritual teaching and
record of historical facts. They are without error or defect of
any kind in the autographs.
- There is one God, eternally existing and manifesting Himself
to us in three Persons-- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- Our Lord Jesus was supernaturally conceived by the power of
the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin, Mary, a lineal descendant
of David. He lived and taught and performed mighty works, wonders
and signs exactly as recorded in the New Testament. He was put
to death by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate. God raised from
the dead the body that had been nailed to the cross. The Lord
Jesus, after His crucifixion, showed Himself to be alive to His
disciples, appearing to them in the space of forty days. After
this the Lord Jesus ascended into heaven, and the Father made
Him to be head over all things, including the Church.
- The Lord Jesus, before His incarnation, existed in the exact
form of God, and of His own choice, laid aside His divine glory
and took upon Himself the form of a servant and was made in the
likeness of men. He is a divine person possessed of all the attributes
of deity and should be worshipped as God by angels and men. "In
Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily."
- By His death on the cross, the Lord Jesus made a perfect atonement
for sin, by which the wrath of God against sinners is appeased
and a ground furnished upon which God can deal in mercy with sinners.
He redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse in
our place. He Who Himself was absolutely without sin was made
sin on our behalf that we might become the righteousness of God
in Him.
- The Lord Jesus is coming again to this earth, personally, bodily
and visibly.
- The Holy Spirit is a person distinct from the Father and the
Son, and possesses all of the divine attributes. He is God.
- Man was created in the image of God, after his likeness, and
therefore has transcendent, intrinsic worth. The whole human race
fell in the fall of the first Adam. All men, apart from spiritual
regeneration, are lost, darkened in their understanding, alienated
from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, hardened
in heart, morally and spiritually dead through their trespasses
and sins. They cannot see nor enter the Kingdom of God until they
are born again of the Holy Spirit.
- Men are justified on the simple and single ground of the shed
blood of Christ and upon the simple and single condition of faith
in Him Who shed His blood, and are born again by the quickening,
renewing, cleansing work of the Holy Spirit, through the instrumentality
of the Word of God. These alone become children of God and receive
eternal life. At death their spirits depart to be with Christ
in conscious blessedness, and at the second coming of Christ their
bodies shall be raised, transformed into the likeness of the body
of His glory.
- All those who persistently reject Jesus Christ in the present
life shall be raised from the dead and throughout eternity exist
in a state of conscious, endless torment and anguish.
- The Church consists of the host of the regenerate, wherever
they may be found. It is the body and bride of Christ which Christ
loves and for which He has given Himself.
- There is a personal devil, a being of great cunning who can
exert vast power only so far as God allows him to do so. He shall
ultimately be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone and shall
be tormented day and night forever.
- We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose
indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life and to
perform good works that are the necessary evidence of their genuine
faith in Christ.
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