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1. The Bible: We believe the Scriptures, all sixty-six of books of the Old and New Testaments, to be the inspired Word of God, thus infallible, inerrant, and the complete revelation of His will for the Salvation of man, and the Divine and final authority for all Christian faith and life.
2. God: We believe in the one living and true God, Creator, Sustainer, Savior and Judge of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; and that these three are one and the same in substance, equal in power and glory.
3. Christ: We believe that Jesus Christ is true God and true man, having been conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He lived a perfect life on earth and died on the cross as a sacrifice for our sins according to the Scriptures. He arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven, where He now is our High Priest, Advocate and King, at the right hand of the Majesty on High.
4. Holy Spirit: We believe that the ministry of the Holy Spirit is to glorify and witness to the Lord Jesus Christ, and during this age to convict men of sin, regenerate the sinner, and indwell, guide, instruct, and empower the believer for knowledge of truth, godly living and gifted service.
5.Man: We believe that man was created in the image of God but fell into sin through Adam and is therefore lost, without hope, the enemy of God, slave of sin, and in judgment of death, needing redemption from God.
6. Salvation: We believe that the shed blood of Jesus Christ and His resurrection provide the only grounds for justification and salvation for all who believe, and only such as receive Jesus Christ. We believe that God is gracious and faithful to His people not simply as individuals but as families in successive generations according to His Covenant promises. We believe that salvation is by God alone as He sovereignly chooses those He will save based on His grace, not on any individual human merit. Only through the regeneration of the Holy Spirit, repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, can human beings be justified in the righteousness of Christ, reconciled to God, receive the new life and become the children of God. By the Grace of God and work of the Holy Spirit, we believe Christians can be sanctified from the power of sin and be preserved in their salvation to the end through trusting and obedience.
7. Sacrament: We believe that water baptism and the Lord's Supper are Holy ordinances to be observed and ministered by the church during the present age. They are, however not to be regarded as a means of salvation, but means of grace to nurture and strengthen the believers in faith.
8. Church: We believe that the true holy Catholic Church is composed of all such persons in all ages and all nations who through saving faith in Jesus Christ have been called by God, regenerated by the Holy Spirit, and are united together in the body of Christ, of which He is the Head, to proclaim the entrusted Gospel to the end of the earth, build one another up as believers through fellowship in faith, hope and the love of Christ, and who expand the Kingdom of God through the transformation power of the Gospel in individual’s, lives, culture and society.
9. Advent: We believe in the bodily, glorious return of Christ in the eschaton to judge the living and the dead, and to usher this creation and the redeemed into eternity for the glory of God. This glorious hope is foundational to our Christian life and service.
10. Eternal Life: We believe in the bodily resurrection of the dead, and of the believer to everlasting blessedness and joy, with the Lord in the new heavens and new earth, of the unbeliever to judgment and everlasting conscious punishment.
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