Doctrinal statement

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*We believe in the plenary, verbal inspiration, and infallibility of the scriptures and that the Bible has been divinely preserved without contradiction or error in the King James Bible.

* We believe in One God eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

* We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Holy Ghost, born of a virgin, and is God and Man; that he died for sins of man, was buried, and resurrected the third day; that he ascended into heaven and presently sits at the right hand of the father as High Priest and Advocate, and that all who believe are justified on the ground of His shed blood and are born again of the Holy Ghost.

* We believe in the literal present-day work of the Holy Spirit: convicting the world of sin, judgment, and righteousness; regenerating believing sinners; indwelling, sealing, comforting, teaching, guiding and empowering believers for service and making them more like Christ. 

* We believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned and incurred both physical and spiritual death, which is separation from God; that all human beings are born with a sin nature and are utterly lost without Christ.

* We believe in the personal, pre-millennial, pre-tribulation, and imminent return of our Lord Jesus Christ to gather His church unto himself.

* We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved and the everlasting punishment of the lost.

* We believe the Church is a local and visible, body of born again, baptized believers of which Christ is the head. 

* We believe that scriptural baptism is by immersion of born-again believers only.  It identifies the convert with the Lord Jesus Christ in his death, burial, and resurrection. The ordinance of baptism and the Lord's Supper are scripturally administered under the authority of a local New Testament church.