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OUR BELIEFs

1. We believe in one true God, eternally existing in three equally divine Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.

2. We believe the Bible, consisting of all sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, is the inspired Word of God, inspired by the Holy Spirit, the infallible rule of faith and conduct, and contains every answer to man's problems.

3. We believe that all human life is sacred and created by God in His image. God created them male and female as the crowning work of His creation. By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. Only the grace of God can bring man into His holy fellowship.

4. Salvation from sin and access to God is available only through the work of Christ on the cross, received solely by faith in Jesus Christ. There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.

5. We believe a New Testament church of Jesus Christ is an autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel, exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word and His Spirit. These believers are to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. The true Church is composed of all such persons who through saving faith in Jesus Christ have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit and are united together in the Body of Christ, of which He is the Head.

6. We believe baptism with the immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as Jesus commanded. It is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer's death to sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to new life in Christ Jesus.

7. We believe the Lord's Supper is to commune with God and members of the church, through partaking of the bread and the fruit of the vine. As we come together, we remember the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His glorious second coming.

8. We believe God created marriage to be exclusively the union of one man and one woman as the foundation of the family and the basic structure of human society.

9. We believe Jesus Christ will return in glory to the earth; the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell, the place of everlasting punishment. The righteous, in their resurrected and glorified bodies, will receive their reward and will dwell forever in Heaven with the Lord.

10. We believe Jesus Christ himself gave the five-fold ministry of apostles, prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.