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2. We believe there is one God eternally existent in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:19; 1 John 5:7)

• We believe in God the Father, perfect in holiness, infinite in wisdom, measureless in power. We rejoice that He concerns himself mercifully in the affairs of men, that He hears and answers prayer, and that He saves from sin and eternal death, all that come to Him through Jesus Christ. (Genesis 1:1; John 3:16)
• We believe in Jesus Christ, the eternal and only begotten Son of God, conceived of the Holy Ghost, of virgin birth, sinless in His life, making atonement for the sins of the world by His death. We believe in His bodily resurrection, His ascension, His pre-tribulational return to rapture the saints, and His visible, pre-millennial return to the earth according to His promise. (John 10:30, 33; Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23; Luke 1:35; Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:14; John 11:25; Acts 1:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 19:11-16)
• We believe in the Holy Spirit who came forth from God to convince the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment, and to regenerate, sanctify, and comfort those who believe in Jesus Christ. (John 4:24; John 16:8; 1 Corinthians 3:16, 12:13)

4. We believe in the Church - a living spiritual body of which Christ is the head and of which Christ is the head and of which all regenerated people are members. We believe that a local church is a company of believers in Jesus Christ, immersed on a credible confession of faith, and associated for worship, work, and fellowship. WE believe that to these local churches were committed, for perpetual observance, the ordinances of baptism and the Lord's Supper, and that God has laid upon these churches the task of proclaiming to a lost world the acceptance of Jesus Christ as Savior, and enthroning of Him as Lord and Master. We believe that all human betterment and social improvements are the inevitable by-products of such a Gospel. (Acts 2:41-42, 47; Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 8:38-39; Romans 6:3-5; 1 Corinthians 11:23-29)

5. We believe that every human being is responsible to God alone in all matters of faith; that each church is independent and autonomous and must be free from interference by any ecclesiastical or political authority; that therefore Church and State must be kept separate as having different functions, each fulfilling its duties free from the diction or patronage of the other. (Acts 6:1-7, 13:1-4; Romans 14:12)

Some Official Positions
We believe

• in the verbal inspiration of the Scriptures
• in the Genesis account of creation
• that Christ was God manifest in the flesh
• in the virgin birth of Christ
• in the total depravity of mankind
• in the blood atonement for sin
• in the necessity for new birth for salvation
• in Christ's bodily resurrection
• in a literal Heaven of bliss for the redeemed
• in a literal Hell of torment for the unredeemed
• in the Imminent, Pre-tribulational rapture of the church
• in the pre-millennial return of Christ
• in the eternal security of the believer
• in the believer's baptism by Immersion
• in the Holy Spirit's indwelling of every believer
• in the establishment and maintenance of local, indigenous churches

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