DECLARATION OF FAITH & PRACTICE

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I. We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are the inspired Word of God, and the only rule of faith and practice. [2 Timothy 3:16]

 

II. We believe that there is but one only living and true God; that there are three persons in the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, who are equal in nature, power, and glory; and that the Son and the Holy Ghost are as truly and properly God as the Father. These three distinct divine persons, we profess to reverence, serve and worship as the one true God.           [Genesis 1:1,26,27; Psalms 90:2; Matthew 28:19; II Cor. 13:14; 2 Peter 1:2]

 

III. We believe that God created the first man Adam, after his image, and in his likeness, an upright, holy, and innocent creature, capable of serving and glorifying him, but he sinned and all his posterity sinned in him, and came short of the glory of God. As a result, a corrupt nature is derived by all his offspring by natural generation, so that they are by their first birth carnal and unclean, averse to all that is spiritually good, and prone to sin. As such they are also by nature children of wrath and under a sentence of condemnation, subject not only to corporal death, i.e., the death of the body, but also to an eternal death, all from which there is no deliverance, but by Christ the last Adam. [Genesis 1:27; Psalms 8:3-6; Isaiah 53:6, 59:1,2; Romans 3:23]

 

IV. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, from everlasting, is the mediator of the everlasting Covenant and the surety for those who believe. That in the fullness of time Christ assumed human nature, in which nature he suffered and died as the sacrifice for the sin of mankind. In His sacrifice He satisfied all which the law and justice of God could require, and gave to those who believe the blessings and riches of God to live a full and complete life in His power.

[Matthew 1:22,23; Isaiah 9:6; John 1:1-5, 14:10-30; Hebrews 4:14,15; 1 Corinthians 15:3,4; Romans 1:3,4; Acts 12:9-11; 1 Timothy 6:14,15; Titus 2:13]

 

V. We believe that the justification of God's people is only by the righteousness of Christ imputed to or credited to them without the consideration of any works of righteousness done by them; and that the full and free pardon of all their sins and transgressions, past, present and to come, is only through the blood of Christ according to the riches of his grace. [Romans 6:23; Ephesians 2:8,9; John 14:6; Titus 3:5; Galatians 3:26; Romans 5:1]

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VI. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life. We believe in the fullness of the Holy Spirit as the empowerment of the Christian for witness and service. We believe that all the gifts of the Holy Spirit as described in the Scriptures are operative and applicable for the church today. [Philippians 2:12,13;              2 Corinthians 5:17; Romans 12:6-8; Ephesians 4:7-13]

 

VII. We believe in the Great Commission and that the Gospel ought to be preached to all people, and that it is the means by which God the Holy Spirit convicts, calls and regenerates. As the Scripture says, "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name (John 1:12)." Therefore, the work of regeneration, conversion, sanctification and faith is not an act of man's will and power, but of the grace of God; as again the Scripture says, "Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God (John 1:13). We believe that, as believers, we have within us the ministry of reconciliation. [2 Corinthians 5:18,19]

 

VIII. We believe that all who are truly saved will persevere in faith so that not one of them shall ever perish, because they have everlasting life. [John 6:37-40; John 10:27,28; 1 John 2:19]

 

IX. We believe that there shall be a Resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust; and that Christ will come a second time to judge all mankind; when he will take vengeance on the wicked, and introduce his own people into his kingdom and glory, where they shall be for ever with him. [Luke 24: 1-53; Acts 1:22; Acts 24:15; Revelation 20:11-15]

 

X. We believe God’s plan for human sexuality is to be expressed only within the context of marriage, that God created man and woman as unique biological persons made to complete each other. God instituted monogamous marriage between male and female as the foundation of the family and the basic structure of human society. Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:5-6; Mark 10:6-9; Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9.