BIBLE:
THE WORD OF GOD
We believe in the plenary and verbal inspiration of
the scriptures, both the Old and New Testament, that they were “given by the
inspiration of God” as the “holy men of God were moved by the Holy Spirit” to
write the very words of the Scriptures. We believe that scriptures are
infallible, inerrant, and absolute, having sole authority in all matters
pertaining to faith and practice.
GODHEAD
We believe in the existence of one and only one,
living and true God. We believe that the God head eternally exists in the three
persons- the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit- and these three are one God:
having precisely the same essence, attributes, and perfections, and executing distinct,
but harmonious offices in the great work of redemption and salvation, and worthy
of precisely the same honor, confidence, adoration, allegiance, love and
worship.
THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST
We believe in the miraculous virgin birth and
absolute deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the second person in the Trinity
who, through his substitutionary death on the cross of Calvary, made atonement
of sin once for all, and that whosoever believes in Him should not be perished
but have eternal life. We believe in his literal bodily resurrection, His
ascension to Heaven, His intercessory work for the saints at the right hand of
the Father, and His visible, bodily, and premillennial return.
HOLY
SPIRIT
We believe in the personality, deity and power of
the Holy Spirit, the third person of the blessed Trinity. We believe that the
Holy Spirit took up His abode in the world in a special sense on the day of
Pentecost. We believe that certain well defined ministries are committed to
Holy Spirit in this present age which include: the restraining of evil in the
world to the measure of the divine will, the convicting of the world in respect
to sin, righteousness, and judgment, the regeneration of all believers, the
indwelling and anointing of all who are saved, thereby sealing them unto the
day of redemption, baptizing into the body of Christ of all who are saved, and
the continued filling for power, teaching and services, and sanctification of
believers, endowing gifts to believers for service, his future ministries on
resurrection and glorification of believer.
ANGLES,
FALLEN AND UNFALLEN
We believe that God created an innumerable company
of sinless, spiritual beings, known as angels. We believe that through the sin
of “Lucifer, Son of the Morning” , that a great company of angels followed him
in his moral fall, some of whom become demons and are active as his agents and
associates in this world. We believe that a great company of angels kept their
holy estate and are before throne of God, from hence they are sent forth as
ministering spirits to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation.
CREATION
AND FALL OF MAN
We believe in the creation of man in holiness, after
the image and likeness of God, by a direct act of God and by no mean an
evolutionary process, and that he fell through sin, and as a consequence of his
sin, became depraved, spiritually dead, which has rendered him helpless and
hopeless of salvation from sin by his efforts.
SALVATION
We believe that, owing to universal death through
sin, there is no salvation apart from the atonement of Christ. We believe in
the redemption and salvation of sinners by grace alone through the finished
work of Christ in shedding His blood once for all, and a full and free
forgiveness is available only to anyone who receives Jesus Christ as their own
personal savior. We believe in the perseverance unto eternal life to those who
are heirs of God, and that believer is eternally secured in the hand of God.
THE
CHURCH
We believe that Church is the new institution of God
in the new covenant of God and is the mean God uses today to accomplish His
work on earth. We believe that Church was a mystery in the Old Testament, but
now through the purchase of Jesus’ blood, the church exists as a different
entity from the nation Israel. We believe that all who are united to Christ are
members of the church which is the body and bride of Christ, and having become
members one of another, are under solemn duty to keep the unity of the Spirit
in the bond of peace, rising above all sectarian difference, and loving one
another with a pure heart fervently.
THE
LOCAL CHURCH
We believe that a truly scriptural local church is a
congregation of born again believers who have been baptized by immersion,
voluntarily associated together in fellowship for the purpose of worship,
edification and evangelization. We believe that the local church is under obligation
to observe the two ordinances of Christ: Baptism by immersion and the Lord’s
Supper for memorial of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
BIBLICAL SEPARATION
We believe in the biblical separation of the church as taught in the Bible. Believers and churches are to be separated from all non-biblical associates which include modernism, liberalism, WCC, etc., who are not in accordance with the Word of God. Each individual believer is to be set apart from any christian activity (including music) which will harm his or her spiritual walk with the Lord.
THE
BLESSED HOPE
We believe
that, according to the word of God, the next great event in fulfillment of
prophecy will be the coming of the Lord in the air to receive to Himself into
heaven both His won who are alive and remain unto His coming, and also who have
fallen asleep in Jesus. We believe in the pre-tribulation return of Christ for His church.
TRIBULATION
We believe that, after the translation of the
Church, the event of tribulation which is the fulfillment of Israel’s
seventieth week will be introduced to the earth. The whole period of Israel’s
seventieth week will be a time of judgment on the whole earth, at the end of
which the time of Gentiles will be brought to close. The later half of this
period will be the time of Jacob’s trouble, which our Lord called “the great
tribulation.” We believe that in this period the nation Israel will be brought
back to the realization of their Messiah, and this period will be marked by
series of judgments.
SECOND
COMING AND MILLENNIUM
We believe in the pre-millennium return of Christ as the period of great tribulation will
be climaxed by the return of Jesus Christ to earth to introduce the millennial
age, to bind Satan and place him in the abyss, and to restore Israel to her own
land as the fulfillment of God’s covenants.
ETERNAL
STATE
We believe that those who through faith are
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ are truly righteous and shall be
taken to be with Him in heavenly glory forever, and all who continue in unbelief
shall be tormented day and night into hell, and finally cast into the lake of
fire, a place of everlasting conscious punishment prepared for the devil and
his angels.
THE
GREAT COMMISSION AND MISSION
We believe that it is the explicit message of our
Lord Jesus Christ to those who are his followers to be sent forth by Him even
as He was sent from God. We believe that, after they are saved they are
divinely reckoned to be related to this world as just strangers and pilgrims,
ambassadors and witnesses and their primary purpose in life should be to make
Christ make known to the whole world. We believe in Our Lord’s commission to go
and preach the Gospel to the world and teaching them to observe all thing what
He commanded us. Ministry is not something we do (in helping) for God, rather
that He works (using us) through us for His own glory!
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