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God
There is one and only one living and true God. He is a spiritual, intelligent, and personal
Being, the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe. God is infinite and existing in three Persons- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit-each of Whom possesses equally all of the attributes of deity and elements of personality. (Deuteronomy 6:4; Psalm 90:2; Matthew 28:19; John 14:6-11, 17:11, 22; Acts 5:3-4; 2 Corinthians 13:14; Ephesians 4:4-6; Revelations 1:4-6)

Jesus Christ
The Lord Jesus Christ is fully God and perfect man, deity incarnate, born of a virgin, He did not sin nor choose to sin. By His death as a substitute for sinners He infinitely satisfied divine justice and provided salvation for all who believe in Him.

He arose from the dead in the same body, though glorified, in which He had lived and died. His resurrection body is the pattern of that body which ultimately will be given to all believers. (John 20:20; Phil 3:20-21)

The Lord Jesus Christ, in His glorified body, is now in Heaven, exalted at the right hand of God the Father, where He presently fulfills the ministries of Representative, Intercessor and Advocate for the saved. (Romans 8:34; Ephesians 4:4-6; Hebrews 7:25, 9:24; 1 John 2:1-2)

The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is the third member of the Trinity. He always has been, is and always will be fully God, with intellect, emotion, and will. He has been intimately involved in all that God does, including creation, justification, and sanctification.

The Holy Spirit gives each believer a spiritual gift. He gives these gifts "for the common good," also that believers might serve one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. (Acts 1:7-8, 2:4, 10:47, 11:16; 1 Corinthians 6:19)

We as disciples of Jesus Christ are the temple of the Holy Spirit where He dwells in us.

The Word of God (The Bible or The Scriptures)
The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is the record of God's revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. It reveals the principles by which God judges us, and therefore is, and will remain to the end of the world, the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creed, and religious opinions should be tried. The criterion by which the Bible is to be interpreted is Jesus Christ, therefore we should only use the Bible to interpret the Bible. (2 Timothy 3:16; John 1:1; 2 Peter 1:19-21)

Eternal Security
Any person who believes in Jesus Christ for eternal life receives that gift which, as the words of eternal life suggest, can never be lost. Every child of God possesses this eternal (or everlasting) life and, being regenerate, justified, and sealed by the Holy Spirit, is safe and secure for all eternity. The believer is eternally secure since Jesus Christ guarantees it (John 6:35-40, 11:25-27). Therefore, it is inconsistent with the Gospel and with Scriptures to seek to gain or keep eternal salvation by works of godly living. (John 6:28-29; Romans 8:33-39; Ephesians 11-14)

Assurance of Salvation
The assurance of eternal salvation is sufficiently grounded on the promise God makes in His Word that everyone who believes in Jesus Christ possesses eternal life (John 5:24; 1 John 5:9-13). Since a person can know whether or not he believes the gospel, no other basis for assurance is needed. Good works which can and should follow regeneration are not an indispensable verification of saving faith, even though they may have a secondary, confirmatory value (Ephesians 2:10; Titus 3:8).

The Church
We believe that the Church, that is, the body and future bride of Christ, is a spiritual entity made up of all born-again believers of this present age despite their affiliation with churches and organizations. The Church was born on the day of Pentecost. Since Pentecost all who believes in Christ are members of the universal church.

The universal Church is visibly functional through groups called local churches, which meet regularly in identifiable locations. These should be autonomous and governed by their own leadership (1 Corinthians 1:1-2; Phil 1:1; 1 Timothy 5:17; Hebrews 13:17). The congregation is responsible to submit to its leadership (Hebrews 13:17).

The Word of God commands believers to gather together in local congregations to devote themselves to worship, prayer, the teaching of the Bible, observance of the ordinances of water baptism and the Lord's Supper, edification of the body, and an active witness to the unsaved world. A local expression of the church is found wherever Christians meet regularly in obedience to these commands. The Lord gave the church two ordinances to be practiced until He returned. The Lord's Supper is to be conducted regularly by believers in remembrance of Christ's death on our behalf. The other perceptual ordinance the Lord gave the church was Christian baptism. We are to urge those whom we lead to faith I Christ to publicly manifest their faith in Christ by being baptized. Since only believers are to be baptized, one who was baptized prior to regeneration has not yet undergone Christian baptism and should submit to baptism even though he or she was sprinkled or immersed in the past. Church discipline should be a vital part of church life. The primary purpose of church discipline is for restoration to the body. Steps of church discipline may include confrontation by one person, by two or more of the church Elders, or by the church body, and finally, if the person refuses all efforts to bring him to repentance, exclusion of the individual from the local church until he does repent. (Matthew 1:15-17)

The Great Commission
The Lord Jesus sent His apostles out to make disciples of all the nations. This was to include evangelizing the unsaved and then baptizing and instructing those who came to faith in Christ, establishing the saved through follow-up, and equipping the committed for a life reproductive and fruit bearing. The Lord wishes all believers o carry on this work until Christ returns. The key to this work of disciple making is faithfulness to the mandate by going, baptizing and teaching others to obey all Christ commanded. (Matthew 28:16-20; Ephesians 4:11-12; Colossians 1:28-29)