The nature and purpose of the statement of faith: This doctrinal statment is not a creed. The whole Bible is our only creed. However, we are keenly aware of the existence of many diverse doctrinal interpretations among Christians. We are also convinced that to avoid a looseness in which could result in the admission to our membership of an unbeliever, or of Christians we are not prepared to cooperate in fellowship and the work to which God hs called us, certain minimal basic, and scriptural truths must be recognized and subscribed to.
STATEMENTS OF FAITH
1. We accept the scriptures of both the Old and the New Testaments to be the devinely inspired Word of God, and that the scriptures are the supreme and final authority for our faith and practice.
2. We believe that the eternal and existant God, manifests himself as God the father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. And these three are one God, according to Deut. 6:4, Mark 12:29-30, and Ephes. 4:5-6.
3. We believe in the incarnation and virgin birth of Jesus, in His sinless life, and in the sufficience and substitutionary nature of His death on the cross for the sins of the world, in His bodily resurrection from the dead and in His assension into Heaven. We anxiously await His bodily return to Earth to set up His Millennial Kingdom after the Tribulation Period. We also believe that Christ, by His Holy Spirit, now indwells all believers as the Living and Ever Present Lord of our lives.
4. We believe that men are justified by faith alone, and that they are accounted righteousness before God, only through the merit of the Lord Jesus Christ. Salvation is thus by grace and through the faith in the Blood of Jesus Christ.
5. We believe in the sanctification through the Word of God, by the Holy Spirit, and in personal holiness in heart and life. "For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." Eph. 2:10
6. We believe in water baptism, in the baptism and fullness of the Holy Spirit, and in the gifts of the Spirit, and in the evidence of the fruit of the Spirit.
7. We believe the true believers endure to the end, and their persevering attachment to Christ is the grand mark that distinguishes them from superficial professors of faith. We believe that a special providence watches over their welfare; and that they are kept by the Power of God through faith, unto salvation.
8. We believe in the bodily resurrection of believers to everlasting life and fellowship with God. We also believe in the bodily resurrection of all non-believers to everlasting torment and punishment of Hell's fire.
9. We believe that God's plan for this present age involves the evangelization of the world through the witness of every believer in Jesus Christ, and establishing of local churches as a mean of accomplishing His purpose.
10. We believe that the New Testament Church is a local fellowship of baptised believers who are associated by faith and in fellowship of the Gospel, observing the ordinances of Christ, (water baptism and the Lord's supper) committed to his teachings, exercising the gifts, rights, and privledges vested in them by His Word, and seeking to extend the gospel to all people. This church is under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and the authority of His Word.
