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Statement of Faith
Basing our faith wholly on the Lord Jesus Christ for our salvation, believing
in the teaching of the Word of God, and in those great distinctive principles
set forth herein, namely, we believe in:
- The pre-eminence of Christ as our divine Lord and Saviour
and in his personal return.
- The divine inspiration of the Bible, accepting in their
entirety the writings of the Old and New Testaments in
their original manuscripts, as the very Word of God; and
therefore all-sufficient as the ultimate authority for
Christian faith and practice.
- One God, and only one, who is self-existent, eternal,
and infinite in every excellence, and who has revealed
Himself in the Trinity as Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
the same in essence though distinct in personality.
- Receiving salvation by grace, that it is the free gift
of God, through the death and resurrection of Christ, not
by any virtue of works of man, but received only by personal
faith in Jesus Christ.
- The right of private interpretation and the competency
of the individual soul in direct approach to God.
- The absolute separation of Church and State.
- A regenerate church membership.
- The two scriptural ordinances of baptism in the name
of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, by believer's baptism
only, which we practice by immersion, and the Lord's Supper
as a memorial communion for the redeemed.
- The complete independence of the local church and its
inter-dependence in associated fellowship with other Baptist
churches.
- The personality of Satan as the enemy of God and adversary
of man.
- The spiritual unity of all believers, for which the Master
so earnestly prayed.
- The world-wide program of missionary fervor and evangelism
in obedience to the final command of Jesus.
- We therefore band ourselves together as a body of believers
in Jesus Christ.
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