Statement of Faith

Statement of faith

1. We believe there is but one living and true God, everlasting, of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness. God is the maker and preserver of all things, both visible and invisible. In the unity of this Godhead, there are three persons of one substance of eternal being, and equal in holiness, justice, wisdom, power, and dignity: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

2. We believe that the Son, who is the word of the father, is the very eternal God of one substance with the father. The son took man’s nature in the womb of the blessed virgin; so that two whole and perfect natures became one. That is to say, the Godhead and the manhood were joined together in one Person, never to be divided, whereof is one Christ. The one Christ and man who actually suffered, was crucified, died, and buried, to reconcile the Father to us, and to make atonement, not only for our actual guilt, but also for original sin.

3. We believe that Christ did truly rise again from the dead and took again his body with all things appertaining to the perfections of man’s nature and he ascended into heaven. There he sits at the right hand of the father making intercession for us until his return to judge all men at the last day.

4. We believe the Holy Ghost, proceeding from the father and the son, is of one substance, majesty, and glory with the father and the son.

5. We believe in the verbal inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, known as the Bible. It is composed of sixty-six books, and divided into two departments, Old and New Testaments. We believe the Bible is the Word of God, the full and complete revelation of the plan and history of redemption.

6. We believe that eternal life with God in heaven is a portion of the reward of the finally righteous and that everlasting banishment from the presence of the Lord and unending torture in hell are the wages of the persistently wicked (Matthew 25:46; Psalm 9:17; Revelation 21:7- 8).

7. We believe that Jesus Christ shed his blood for the remission of sins that are past, for the regeneration of penitent sinners, and for salvation from sin and from sinning (Romans 3:25, 1 John 3:5-10; Ephesians 2:1-10).

8. We believe, teach, and firmly maintain the scriptural doctrine of justification by faith alone (Romans 5:1).

9. We believe that Jesus Christ shed His blood for the complete cleansing of the justified believer from all indwelling sin and from its pollution after regeneration (1 John 1:7-9).                                    

10. We believe in sanctification. While sanctification is initiated in regeneration and consummated in glorification, we believe it includes a definite instantaneous work of grace achieved by faith after regeneration (Acts 26:18, 1 John 1:9). Sanctification comes from the power and dominion of sin. It is followed by lifelong growth in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 4:16, 2 Peter 3:18).

11. We believe that the Pentecostal baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire is obtainable by a definite act of appropriating faith on the part of the fully cleansed believer, and the initial evidence of the reception of this experience is speaking with other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance (Luke 11:13, Acts 1:5, 2:1-4, 8:17, 10:44-46, 19:6).

12. We believe in divine healing as in atonement (Isaiah 53:4, 5; Matthew 8:16, 17; Mark 16:14-18, James 5:14-16, Exodus 15:26).

13. We believe in the imminent, personal, premillennial second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17, Titus 2:13, 2 Peter 3:10-14, Matthew 24:29-44), and love and wait for His appearing (2 Timothy 4:8).

14. We believe it is the responsibility of every believer to dedicate his life to carrying out the work of the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20, Mark 16:15-20, Acts 1:8).

15. “Marriage is a faithful, exclusive and lifelong union between one man and one woman.” “What is called “homosexual unions” or “lesbianism unions” cannot be given the status of marriage because they do not express full human complementarity and because they are inherently nonprocreative.

16. Our belief firmly rejects same sex marriages or sex changes; this is forbidden in the word of God.

We believe in the marriage of man and women and do not believe in marriage of man to man or women to women. We do not believe in same sex marriages through sex changes. We believe in the marriage of and between a biological male and biological female. We do not marry humans with anything that is non-human. Below is a list of the following that we believe should not be accepted.

• (A) No man shall marry his mother, grandmother, daughter, granddaughter, stepmother, sister, grandfather’s wife, son’s wife, grandson’s wife, wife’s mother, wife’s grandmother, wife’s daughter, wife’s granddaughter, brother’s daughter, sister’s daughter, father’s sister, mother’s sister, or another man.
• (B) No woman shall marry her father, grandfather, son, grandson, stepfather, brother, grandmother’s husband, daughter’s husband, granddaughter’s husband, husband’s father, husband’s grandfather, husband’s son, husband’s grandson, brother’s son, sister’s son, father’s brother, mother’s brother, or another woman.

17. We do not believe in polygamy or the practice of having more than one wife or husband at the same time.