Statement of Faith
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1.    We believe in the verbal and plenary inspiration of the Bible,
that it is the inerrant and infallible Word of God.   We believe that
the KJV is the most accurate, trust-worthy, and reliable of modern 
translations.
 
2.      We believe in the Trinity of the Godhead: one God eternally 
existing in three equal Persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 

3.     We believe in the deity, virgin birth, sinless life, 
substitutionary death, bodily resurrection, and imminent, pre 
millennial coming of Christ. 

4.    We believe in the personality of the Holy Spirit.  It is He
who calls and regenerates believers. He baptizes them into Christ. 
He indwells, seals and fills the believer for service. 

5.    We believe that the believer receives the Holy Spirit at the 
moment of salvation, not at some later time.  We reject the modern 
tongues movement and the charismatic teachings. 

6.    We believe in the direct creation of the universe and man by
God, as set forth in the Genesis account, and apart from any process
of evolution.   We believe in a literal 6 day creation and reject
the "day-age" theory and other man-made attempts to rectify modern 
pseudo-science and scripture.  

7.    We believe in the fall, total depravity and guilt of the human
race, which necessitates the sovereign, divinely  initiated 
deliverance of the sinner by the Grace of God in Christ. 

8.    We believe in the eternal salvation of all individuals who put 
their trust in Christ and His shed blood. 

9.    We believe that the believer, at the moment of trusting Christ, 
becomes a member of the body of Christ and a member of the church of
Christ.   We believe that the local church is a company of baptized 
believers, associated by a covenant of faith and fellowship of the 
Gospel. 

10.   We believe that the true mission of the church is to be found
in the Great Commission: first, to make disciples; second, to baptize 
them; third, toinstruct new disciples as He has commanded. It is to 
observe the ordinances of Christ (immersion and the Lord’s Table). 
The ordinance of baptism is for believers only and is a prerequisite 
for membership in the local church. Officers in the New Testament 
local church are pastors and deacons.  We believe that these offices 
are for males only. 

11.   We believe in the obedience to the Biblical command to separate 
entirely from worldliness and ecclesiastical apostasy unto God and 
oppose without apology ecumenism and compromise in Christian 
principles. 

12.   We believe in a personal, real Satan who is the enemy of the 
believers.  We believe in the personal existence of angels and demons. 

13.   We believe in the bodily resurrection, immortality and rapture 
of all believers at Christ’s imminent coming. We further personally 
believe in a pre-tribulation rapture, meaning  that the saints will
not go through any part of the tribulation period. 

14.   We believe in the sovereign selection of Israel as God’s eternal 
covenant people and that all the promises of God to Abraham will occur 
and Israel will be continually blessed by God. 

15.   We believe in a literal hell which is for all those who refuse
to trust in the substitutionary death of Christ.  Likewise, we believe 
in a literal Heaven which is the abode of God and the future home of 
all the redeemed. 

(This is only a partial list of our beliefs.)