Statement of doctrine & principles
What We Believe
WE BELIEVE…
- That Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living God and the only Savior from sin.
- That Jesus Christ is the Great Physician and the Healer of the body and soul through the Blood Atonement.
- That Jesus Christ is the Baptizer with the Holy Ghost today, just as He was on the day of Pentecost.
- That Jesus Christ is the soon coming King, coming back to earth again as the only hope for a dying world.
- That Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.
CREEDAL STATEMENTS
- In the verbal inspiration of the original scriptures;
- In the absolute Trinity of the eternal Godhead;
- In the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ;
- In the personality and deity of the Holy Spirit;
- In the reality and personality of Satan (the devil);
- In the natural depravity of the human race;
- In the substitutionary atonement through Jesus Christ;
- In the propitiation for sin, only through the Blood of Christ;
- In full salvation by grace, through faith, and not of works;
- In divine healing through the atonement by the laying on of hands and prayer;
- In the personal Baptism of the Holy Spirit;
- In the necessity of the new birth (born again);
- In water baptism by immersion at an age of accountability;
- In the true church composed of blood-washed believers;
- In the evangelism of the heathen and the nations of the world;
- In obedience to civil Government;
- In divorce only on New Testament scriptural grounds;
- In Church Government, loyalty and obedience to those in authority over us in the Lord;
- In tithing as God’s financial plan;
- In the restitution for past wrongs whenever possible;
- In God’s laws and principles outlined in the Bible as the final authority in Christian conduct;
- In the open table at the Lord’s Supper;
- In the maintenance of good works and holy living;
- In Christian modesty in the matter of dress and apparel;
- In a literal heaven and life everlasting for all true believers;
- In everlasting punishment for the impenitent;