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What
We Believe
WE
BELIEVE worship of God should be spiritual. Therefore, we remain
flexible and yielded to the leading of the Holy Spirit to direct our
worship.
WE BELIEVE worship of God should be inspirational. Therefore, we
place importance on music in our worship.
WE BELIEVE worship of God should be intelligent. Therefore, we look
for His love in our lives as the supreme manifestation that we have been
truly worshipping Him.
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But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true
worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit
and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship Him. John 4:23
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WE BELIEVE in the inerrancy of Scripture. We believe that the
Bible, both Old and New Testaments, in the original autographs, is the
inspired, infallible Word of God, and a complete and final written
revelation of God.
WE BELIEVE in one personal, transcendent, and Holy God, the Creator
of all, who is eternal, and who manifests Himself in three separate
persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
WE BELIEVE that Jesus Christ, though fully God, became a man for
the suffering of death, that He is the promised Messiah, born of a virgin,
lived a sinless life, provided for the atonement of our sins by His
vicarious death on the Cross, was bodily resurrected by the power of the
Holy Spirit, ascended back to the right hand of God the Father, and ever
lives to make intercession for us.
After Jesus ascended to Heaven, He poured out His Holy Spirit on the
believers in Jerusalem, enabling them to fulfill His command to preach the
Gospel to the entire world, an obligation shared by all believers today.
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And He said unto them, Go ye into all the world,
and preach the gospel to every creature.
Mark 16:15
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WE BELIEVE all people are by nature, separated from God by sin and
responsible for their own sin. We believe salvation, redemption and
forgiveness are freely offered to all of us by the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ. When a person repents of sin and accepts Jesus Christ as personal
Savior and Lord, that person is immediately “born-again”. Jesus Christ and
His work on the cross alone have the power to save. The born-again
believer is then sealed by the Holy Spirit and their sins are forgiven,
and that person becomes a child of God.
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“But as many as received Him,
to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that
believe on His name.”
John 1:12 |
WE
BELIEVE
the person and ministry of the Holy Spirit enables any believer who asks
in faith, enabling them to preach the Gospel and live it out daily. We
believe the gifts of the Holy Spirit mentioned in the Scriptures, are
valid for today if they are exercised within scriptural guidelines. We
believe love is more important than all the gifts, and without love the
exercise of spiritual gifts is worthless.
WE
BELIEVE
Jesus Christ is the head of the Body, His church, and that church
government should be simplistic rather than a complex bureaucracy. We
desire to be led by the Holy Spirit and all the functions and directions
of the ministry of the church. We await the pre-tribulational rapture of
the church, and we believe that the second coming of Christ with His
saints to rule on the earth will be personal, pre-millennial and visible.
This motivates us to holy living, heartfelt worship, committed service,
diligent study of God’s Word, regular fellowship and participation in
baptism by immersion and in the Holy Communion.
We
seek to teach the Word of God in such a way that its message can be
applied to an individual’s life, leading that person to greater maturity
in Christ.
We
reject doctrinal view points of spiritual phenomena which are based on
experience only. We look to the Word of God for the basis of all our faith
and practice.
WE
BELIEVE
in a personal devil called Satan who, along with all his evil angels –
called demons, is destined to spend eternity in hell. He now seeks to
deceive believers and defeat the work of God. Believers are interceded for
by Christ, protected by God and are in-dwelt by the Holy Spirit and can
resist Satan.
WE
BELIEVE
that the nation of Israel has a special place in God’s plan and that all
the promises of Israel will be fulfilled.
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