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1. There is one true God, eternally existing in three
persons--Father, Son and Holy Spirit---each of whom
equally possesses all the attributes of Deity and the
characteristics of personality.
2. Jesus Christ is God, the living Word, who became
flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy
Spirit and His virgin birth. Hence, He is perfect Deity
and true humanity united in one person forever.
3. Jesus Christ lived a sinless life and voluntarily
atoned for the sins of men by dying on the cross as
their substitute, thus satisfying divine justice and
accomplishing salvation for all who trust in Him alone.
4. Jesus Christ rose from the dead in the same body,
though glorified, in which He lived and died.
5. Jesus Christ ascended bodily into heaven and sat
down at the right hand of God the Father, where He,
the only mediator between God and man, continually makes
intercession for His own.
6. Man is created in the image of God. All have sinned
disobeying God; thus, man is alienated from His creator.
That historic fall brought all mankind under divine
condemnation.
7. Mans nature is corrupted, and he is totally
unable to please God. Every man is in need of salvation
by regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
8. The salvation of man is entirely a work of Gods
free grace and is not the work, in whole or in part,
of human works or goodness or religious ceremony. God
imputes His righteousness to those who put their faith
in Christ alone for their salvation, and thereby justifies
them forever in His sight.
9. It is the privilege of all who are born again of
the Spirit to be assured of their salvation from the
very moment in which they trust Christ as their Savior
and Lord. This assurance is not based on any kind of
human merit, but is produced by the witness of the Spirit,
who confirms in the believer the testimony of God in
His written Word.
10. The Holy Spirit has come into the world to reveal
and glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ
to men. He convicts and draws sinners to Christ, imparts
new life to them, continually indwells them from the
moment of spiritual birth and seals them until the day
of redemption. His fullness, power and control are appropriated
in the believers life by faith. Every believer
is called to live in the power of the indwelling Spirit
that he might not fulfill the lust of the flesh but
will bear fruit to the glory of God.
11. Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church, His Body,
which is composed of all men, living and dead, who have
been joined to Him through saving faith.
12. God admonishes His people to assemble together in
local churches for worship, for participation in the
ordinances of believers baptism and the Lords
Table, for edification through the Scriptures and for
mutual encouragement.
13. At physical death the believer immediately enters
into eternal, conscious fellowship with the Lord and
awaits the resurrection of his body to everlasting glory
and blessing.
14. At physical death the unbeliever enters immediately
into eternal, conscious separation in Hades away from
the Lord and awaits the resurrection of his body to
everlasting judgment and condemnation in the Lake of
Fire.
15. Jesus Christ will come again to the earth personally,
visibly and bodily to consummate history and the eternal
plan of God.
16. The Lord Jesus Christ commanded all believers to
proclaim the gospel throughout the world and to disciple
men of every nation in the context of the local church.
The fulfillment of the Great Commission requires that
all worldly and personal ambitions be subordinated to
a total commitment to "Him who loved us and gave
Himself for us."
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