Doctrine

1. We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and the New Testaments as verbally inspired of God, and inerrant in the original writings, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life.
   
   
2. We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
   
   
3. We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, and born of the Virgin Mary, and is true God and true man. 
   
   
4. We believe that man was created in the image of God; that he sinned, and thereby incurred, not only physical death, but also that spiritual death which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, and in the case of those who reach moral responsibility become sinners in thought, word, and deed.
   
   
5. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice; and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood.
   
   
6. We believe that all those (and only those) who by faith receive the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior, are miraculously born again of the Holy Spirit, and thereby, without benefit of any human merit, religious rite, or ceremony, partake of the divine life and nature, and are sealed by the Holy Spirit for time and eternity.
   
   
7. We believe that, at the time of the new birth,  the believer receives the Holy Spirit and by Him is baptized into the Body of Christ; is forever indwelt by the Holy Spirit as guide and comforter; and if yielded to Him, is empowered for service.
   
   
8. We believe in the spiritual unity of the believers in our Lord Jesus Christ, the “Head of the Body, the Church”
   
   
9. We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into heaven, and in His present life there as High Priest and Advocate for us.
   
   
10. We believe in “that blessed hope,” the personal, premillennial, and imminent return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
    
    
11. We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the lost; the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost.
    
    
12. We believe that Satan is a real being, a personal devil; that he, the enemy of God, the “father of lies,” the great deceiver of mankind, is the instigator of all false systems of religion, and that, with him, all persistent followers of such will find their end in the lake of fire. 

This Statement of Faith wasCompiled by
Henry Grube