STATEMENT OF FAITH What we believe, what we preach and teach and what we aspire to live. The basis for our faith is God's Holy Word as revealed through the life of His Son Jesus Christ. 1. We believe in the verbal inspiration of the Bible by the Holy Ghost.
2. We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
3. We believe that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of the Father, conceived of the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary. That Jesus was crucified, buried and raised from the dead after three days in the tomb. That He is ascended to heaven and is today at the right hand of the Father making intercession for the saints.
4. We believe that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God and that repentance is commanded of God for all and necessary for forgiveness of sin.
5. We believe that justification, regeneration and the new birth are wrought by faith in the Blood of Jesus Christ.
6. We believe in sanctification subsequent to the new birth, through faith in the Blood of Jesus Christ, through the Word and the by the Holy Ghost.
7. We believe Holiness to be God's standard of living for His people.
8. We believe in the Baptism of the Holy Ghost subsequent to a clean heart and accessible through faith the same as Salvation.
9. We believe in speaking with other tounges as the Spirit gives the utterance and that it is the initial evidence of the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, this work of the Spirit being separate and apart from the work of regeneration at salvation.
10. We believe in water baptism by immersion; and that all who repent should be baptized in the name of Jesus.
11. We believe that Divine Healing is provided for all in the Atonement.
12. We believe in the Lord's Supper and the washing of the saint's feet.
13. We believe in the premillenial second coming of Jesus, that is the Rapture, to resurrect the righteous dead and to catch away the living saints to meet Him in the air. Secondly, to rule and reign bodily here on earth for a thousand years.
14. We believe in the bodily resurrection and eternal life of the righteous (that is those who have repented, been washed in the Blood of Jesus and made Jesus their personal Lord and Savior) and in the eternal doom, damnation and punishment of the wicked (that is those who have rejected Jesus and His offer of Eternal Salvation through His shed blood).
15. We believe in the manifestation and operation of all the Gifts of the Spirit in the Body of Christ known as the Church, as detailed in the Holy Scriptures in I Corinthians.
16. We believe that when the work of regeneration has been accomplished that the Fruit of the Spirit will be a natural outflowing result of that work. We beleive that it is the manifestation of the cleansing work of the Holy Ghost working from the inside to the outside of a person.
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