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Mini-Doctrinal Statement

• I believe in the one true God, almighty and eternal, the creator and sustainer of all things, perfect in love and righteousness, existing as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He is the creator (Isaiah 40:12, 22, 26), judge ((Psalm 96:10, 13), king (Psalm 47:2,7,8), defender (Psalm 18:35), preserver (Psalm 121:3-8), and shepherd (Genesis 49:24) of the universe.

• I believe God has revealed Himself to humanity through His creation, through His redemptive acts in history, through the written Word of God and supremely in His Son, Jesus Christ (Romans 1).

• I believe the scriptures, consisting of sixty-six books in the Old and New Testaments to be the divinely inspired Word of God, the only infallible rule for faith and practice.

• I believe that human beings were created in God’s image, enjoying perfect fellowship with Him, but became separated from Him by disobedience. As a result, humanity incurred physical and spiritual death and came under God’s wrath. Mankind's only hope of salvation and restoration to fellowship with God is by grace alone through faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ, by spiritual rebirth.

• I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, truly God and truly human, the only mediator between God and mankind. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He fully shared our humanity in a life of perfect obedience to the Father. He died on the cross as a sacrifice for our sins, rose bodily from the grave and ascended into heaven.

• I believe that the Holy Spirit, who is the living presence of God, indwells all those who by faith in Jesus Christ have been restored to fellowship with God. He produces in believers the fruit of divine life, and guides and instructs them in the ways of truth. I believe that all those who have placed their personal faith in Jesus Christ for salvation are baptized by the Spirit into one Body, the Church of Jesus Christ and are individually gifted to build up the Body until it reaches the full measure of maturity in Christ.

• I believe in the personal, visible return of Jesus Christ to fully establish his kingdom on the earth, to raise the dead and to judge all people. Those without divine life in Christ will be condemned to everlasting punishment and those who have life in Christ will live and reign with him in glorified bodies over a new creation.

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