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This Church accepts the Scriptures as the revealed will of God, the All Sufficient Rule of Faith and practice, and for the purpose of maintaining general unity, adopts these Statements of Fundamental Truths and Doctrine.
The Bible is the inspired Word of God, a revelation from God to man, the infallible rule of Faith and conduct, and is superior to conscience and reason, but not contrary to reason. (II Timothy 3:15-17; I Peter 1:23-25; Hebrews 4:12)
The triune God-head is comprised of 3 separate and distinct personalities: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit – who are eternally self-existent, self-revealed and function as one entity. Jesus Christ, who is God manifested in the flesh, is the second member of the God-head; co-equal and co-eternal with the father and the Holy Spirit.
Man was created good and upright. For God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness.” But man, by voluntary transgression, fell and his only hope of redemption is in Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
(Genesis 1:26-31; Genesis 3:1-7; Romans 5:12-21)
a. Man’s only hope of redemption is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. On the cross, Jesus Christ became sin and sickness providing both salvation and divine healing for all mankind; (Psalm 103:3) being justified freely by His Grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. For by Grace we are saved through faith. “The Word is near You, in your mouth and in your heart — that is, the Word of Faith which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved. For with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness and with the mouth he confesses resulting in salvation..” (Romans 3:24; Ephesians 2:8; Romans 10:8-10)
b. The evidences of Salvation. The inward evidence to the believer of his salvation is the direct witness of the Spirit. (Romans 8:16). The outward evidence to all men is a life of Righteousness and true holiness. “And this is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us.” (I John 3:23) While you are waiting for these to happen, and for him to come, try hard to live without sinning; and be at peach with everyone so that He will be pleased with you when he returns.
(2 Peter 3:14 )
c. Faith and Works. Salvation is by faith in Jesus Christ and not by human works; However, our works will determine the rewards in eternity.
( Romans 10:9-10;II Corinthians 5:10)
The ordinance of baptism by a burial with Christ should be observed as commanded in the Scriptures by all who have really repented, and in their hearts, have truly believed on Christ as Savior and Lord. In so doing, they declare to the world that they have died with Jesus and that they have also been raised with Him to walk in the newness of life.
(Matthew 28:19; Acts 10:47-48; Romans 6:4)
“And when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, ‘This is my body which is for you; do this in remembrance of me. In the same way he also took the cup after supper saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me. Let a man examine himself and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.’ ”
(I Corinthians 11:24, 25, 28)
“Boaz too Ruth and she became his wife..”, “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife…”, Each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband. “Finally the time came for him to marry her.” It is our sincere belief that marriage, as ordained by God, is defined as being between one man and one woman. No other will be performed or condoned. (Jeremiah 29:6; Romans 7:2; I Corinthians 7:2; Genesis 21:21; Genesis 29:21; I Corinthians 7:36,39; Genesis 2:23-24; Ephesians 5:22-23,25,28-29,31,33)
a. Definition of Marriage
We believe the original definition of marriage came from God
Genesis 2:24 – “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
We believe Jesus Christ upheld this definition of marriage
Matthew 19:4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female’,5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
We believe the Early Church upheld this standard of marriage between male and female
Ephesians 5:31 – “For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
We believe the Bible in its entirety condemns any form of sexual activity outside of the biblical definition of marriage
Hebrews 13:4 – “Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
b. Defined Sexual relationships strictly forbidden by God
Adultery = Sexual union between male & female while married to another. Exodus 20:14
Proverbs 6:32, Matthew 5:28
Fornication = Sexual union between individuals prior to marriage1 Corinthians 6:9
Homosexuality = Sexual union between males 1 Corinthians 6:9 Romans 1:27
Lesbianism = Sexual union between females Romans 1:26, 27
Bestiality = Sexual union between human beings and animals Leviticus 18:23
Incest = Sexual union between members of same biological family Leviticus 18:6-17
c. We believe same sex unions are forbidden by God in any context
Romans 1:26 – “Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.”
Why?
We reserve the right for our staff or approved wedding officiate to only perform marriages where the union would conform to the scriptural definition of marriage
We reserve the right for our facility to be used only in facilitating marriages that conform to our beliefs and practices about marriage as defined by scripture.
All Believers are entitled to and should ardently expect and earnestly seek the Promise of the Father, the Baptism in the Holy Ghost and Fire, according to the command of our Lord Jesus Christ. This was the normal experience of all in the early Christian church. With it comes the Endowment of power for life and service the bestowment of the gifts and their uses in the work of the ministry. (Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4-8; I Corinthians 12:1-31)
This wonderful experience is distinct from and subsequent to the experience of the new birth.”
(Acts 2:38; Acts 10:44-46: Acts 11:14-16; Acts 15:7-9)
The full consummation of the Baptism of believers in the Holy Spirit is evidenced by the initial physical sign of speaking with other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance, and by the subsequent manifestation of spiritual power in public testimony and service.
(Acts 1:8; Acts 2:4; Acts 10:44-46; Acts 19:2, 6)
The Bible teaches that without holiness, no man can see the Lord. We believe in the doctrine of Sanctification as a definite, yet progressive work of grace, commencing at the time of regeneration and continuing until the consummation of salvation at Christ’s return.
(Hebrews 12:14; I Thessalonians 5:23; II Peter 3:18; II Corinthians 3:18; Philippians 3:12-14;
I Corinthians 1:30)
Healing is for physical ills of the human body and is wrought by the power of God through the prayer of faith and by the laying on of hands. It is provided for in the atonement of Christ, and is the privilege of every member of the Church today.
(Mark 16:18; James 5:14-15; I Peter 2:24; Matthew 8:17; Isaiah 53:4-5)
The Church is the body of Christ, the habitation of God through the Spirit, with divine appointments for the fulfillment of her Great Commission. Each believer, born of the Spirit is, is an integral part of the general assembly and Church of the firstborn, which are written in Heaven.
(Ephesians 1:22; Ephesians 2:19-22; Hebrews 12:23)
We believe in the scripture pattern of church government through the fivefold ministries of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers and in God’s plan for spiritual authority within the church. This is for the perfecting of the saints, the perfecting of the ministries, for the edifying of the body of Christ, til we all come in the unity of faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. (Ephesians 4:11-13)
a. Spiritual – John 3:3, 11; I Corinthians 5:17-21; Romans 10:9-10
b. Mental – II Timothy 1:7; Romans 12:2; Isaiah 26:3
c. Physical – Isaiah 53:4-5; Matthew 8:17; I Peter 2:24
d. Financial – III John 1:2; Malachi 3:10-11; Luke 6:38; II Corinthians 9:6-10; Deut. 28:1-14
e. Social – Proverbs 3:4
We believe that it is every members responsibility to support the church ministries through tithes and offerings. We believe that personal and financial blessings will be poured out from heaven to all those who comply and will be rewarded with a prosperous life. (Malachi 3:10-11 Luke 6:38, II Corinthians 9:6-10 III John 1:2)
Jesus is coming again to gather all His Saints to Heaven.
(I Corinthians 15:51-52; I Thessalonians 4:16-17; II Thessalonians 2:1)
Those who have not accepted the redemptive work of Jesus Christ will suffer eternal separation from the God-head. The devil and his angels, the beast and the false prophet, and anyone whose name was not found written in the Book of Life shall be consigned to Everlasting punishment in the lake of fire which burns with brimstone. This is the 2nd Death, the lake of fire.
(Revelation 19:20; Revelation 20:10-15)
The return of our Lord Jesus Christ with His Saints from Heaven to rule and reign for one thousand years on earth as the scripture promised.
(Romans 11:25-27; II Thessalonians 1:7; Revelation 19:11-16; 20:1-7)
After this there shall be a New Heaven and a New Earth. (Revelation 21)
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