OUR
BELIEF
We believe that it is the church responsibility
to help those who are in need and are oppressed, to
seek out the lost and teach them. We believe we must
commit to keeping the great commandment and fulfill
the great commission. Thereby; growing the church
for global change for the glory of God.
The
Scriptures
The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired
and is 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.
God
There is one and only one living and true God. …The
eternal God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son and
Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but
without division of nature, essence, or being.
God
the Father
God as Father reigns with providential care over His
universe, His creatures, and the flow of the stream
of human history according to the purposes of His
grace. …God is Father in truth to those who
become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ.
God
the Son
Christ is the eternal Son of God. In His incarnation
as Jesus Christ, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit
and born of the virgin Mary. …He honored the
divine law by His personal obedience, and in His death
on the cross, He made provision for the redemption
of men from sin.
God
the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God. …He exalts
Christ. He convicts of sin, of righteousness and of
judgment. …He enlightens and empowers the believer
and the church in worship, evangelism, and service.
Man
Man was created by the special act of God, in His
own image, and is the crowning work of His creation.
…By his free choice man sinned against God and
brought sin into the human race. … The sacredness
of human personality is evident in that God created
man in His own image, and in that Christ died for
man; therefore every man possesses dignity and is
worthy of respect and Christian love.
Salvation
Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man,
and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ
as Lord and Saviour, who by His own blood obtained
eternal redemption for the believer. In its broadest
sense salvation includes regeneration, sanctification,
and glorification.
God's
Purpose of Grace
Election is the gracious purpose of God, according
to which He regenerates, sanctifies, and glorifies
sinners. …All true believers endure to the end.
Those whom God has accepted in Christ, and sanctified
by His Spirit will never fall away from the state
of grace, but shall persevere to the end.
The
Church
A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is
a local body of baptized believers who are associated
by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel…and
seeking to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth.
…This church is an autonomous body. …The
New Testament speaks also of the church as the body
of Christ, which includes all of the redeemed of all
the ages.
Baptism
& the Lord\'s Supper
Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in
water. …It is an act of obedience symbolizing
the believer's faith in a crucified, buried, and risen
Saviour, the believer's death to sin, the burial of
the life, and the resurrection to walk in newness
of life in Christ Jesus.
The Lord's Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby
members … memorialize the death of the Redeemer
and anticipate His second coming.
The
Lord's Day
The first day of the week is the Lord's Day. …It
commemorates the resurrection of Christ from the dead
and should be employed in exercises of worship and
spiritual devotion.
Last
Things
God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring
the world to its appropriate end. …Jesus Christ
will return personally and visibly…the dead
will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in righteousness.
The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell. …The
righteous… will receive their reward and will
dwell forever in Heaven with the Lord.
Evangelism
& Missions
It is the duty and privilege of every follower of
Christ and every church of the Lord Jesus Christ to
endeavor to make disciples of all nations …
to seek constantly to win the lost to Christ by personal
effort.
Education
The cause of education in the Kingdom of Christ is
co-ordinate with the causes of missions and general
benevolence … there should be a proper balance
between academic freedom and academic responsibility.
…The freedom of a teacher in a Christian school,
college, or seminary is limited by the pre-eminence
of Jesus Christ, by the authoritative nature of the
Scriptures, and by the distinct purpose for which
the school exists.
Stewardship
God is the source of all blessings, temporal and spiritual;
all that we have and are we owe to Him. Christians
have a spiritual debtorship to the whole world, a
holy trusteeship in the gospel, and a binding stewardship
in their possessions. They are therefore under obligation
to serve Him with their time, talents, and material
possessions.
Cooperation
Christ\'s people should … organize such associations
and conventions as may best secure cooperation for
the great objects of the Kingdom of God. Such organizations
have no authority over one another or over the churches.
…Cooperation is desirable between the various
Christian denominations.
The
Christian & the Social Order
Every Christian is under obligation to seek to make
the will of Christ supreme in his own life and in
human society. ... The Christian should oppose in
the spirit of Christ every form of greed, selfishness,
and vice.
Religious
Liberty
Church and state should be separate. The state owes
to every church protection and full freedom in the
pursuit of its spiritual ends. …A free church
in a free state is the Christian ideal.
Family
God has ordained the family as the foundational institution
of human society. …Marriage is the unity of
one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a
lifetime. …The husband and wife are of equal
worth before God, since both are created in God's
image. The marriage relationship models the way God
relates to His people. …Children, from the moment
of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the
Lord.
