STATEMENT OF FAITH


THE SCRIPTURES: The Bible is the inspired Word of God, the product of holy men of old who spoke and wrote as they were moved by The Holy Spirit.

• 2 Timothy 3:16
  
• 1 Thessalonians 2:13
  
• 2 Peter 1:21

THE GODHEAD: Our God is one, but manifested in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

• John 1:14
• John 15:26

MAN, HIS FALL, AND REDEMPTION: Man is a created being, made in the likeness and image of God. Through Adam’s transgression and fall, sin came into the world. “All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. As it is written there is none righteous, no, not one.” Jesus Christ, the Son of God was manifested to undo the work of the devil and gave His life and shed His blood to redeem and restore man back to God.

• Romans 5:14
• Romans 3:10
• Romans 3:23
• 1 John 3:8

Salvation is the gift of God to man, separated from works and the law, and is made operative by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, producing works acceptable to God.

• Ephesians 2:8

ETERNAL LIFE AND THE NEW BIRTH: Man’s first step toward salvation is Godly sorrow that worketh repentance. The new birth is necessary to all men and when fulfilled produces eternal life.

• 2 Corinthians 7:10
• 1 John 5:12
• John 3:35

WATER BAPTISM: Baptism in water is by immersion and is a direct commandment of our Lord and for believers only. This ordinance is a symbol of the Christian’s identification with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection.

• Matthew 28:19
• Romans 6:4
• Colossians 2:12
• Acts 8:36-39

BAPTISM IN THE HOLY GHOST: The baptism in the Holy Ghost and Fire is a gift from God as promised by the Lord Jesus Christ, to all believers in this dispensation, and is received subsequent to the New Birth. This experience is accompanied by the initial evidence of speaking in other tongues as the Holy Spirit himself gives utterance.

• Matthew 3:11
• John 14:16-17
• Acts 1:8
• Acts 2:38-39
• Acts 19:1-7
• Acts 2:4

DIVINE HEALING: Healing is for the physical ills of the human body and is wrought by the power of God through the prayer of faith, and by the laying on of hands. It is provided for in the atonement of Christ and is the privilege of every member of the church today.

• Mark 16:18
• James 5:14-25
• 1 Peter 2:24
• Matthew 8:17
• Isaiah 53:4-5

RESURRECTION OF THE JUST AND THE RETURN OF OUR LORD: The angel said, “this same Jesus shall so come in like manner.” His coming is imminent. When He comes, “….the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.…”

• Acts 1:11
• 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

Following the tribulation, He shall return to earth as King of Kings and Lord of Lords together with His saints, who shall be kings and priests. He will reign 1000 years.

• Revelation 20:6

HELL AND ETERNAL RETRIBUTION: The one who physically dies in his sins without Christ is hopelessly and eternally lost in the Lake of Fire and therefore has no further opportunity of hearing the Gospel or repenting. The Lake of Fire is literal. The terms “Eternal and Everlasting” used in describing the duration of the punishment of the damned in the Lake of Fire, carry the same thought and meaning of endless existence as used in denoting the duration of joy and ecstasy of saints in the presence of God.

• Hebrews 9:27
• Revelation 19-20