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STATEMENT
OF FAITH
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We believe that
the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments
are the inspired and infallible Word of God, the final authority
for the lives of believers in every culture and age and their
rule of faith and practice. They are to be interpreted by the
Holy Spirit according to their context and purpose, and in reverent
obedience to the Living Word, Who speaks through them in the power
of the Spirit.
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We believe that there is one
living and true God, Who eternally exists in three
distinct persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; equal
in power and glory; each of Whom possesses equally all the attributes
of Deity and the characteristics of personality.
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We believe that God
the Father has revealed Himself to be perfect in love, holiness
and righteousness; that He created all, upholds all and governs
all; and He so loved the world, even in the midst of its fallenness
and sin, that He gave His only Son for its redemption. Like a
father who runs to welcome the prodigal home, Father God is trustworthy
and faithful to His children and all things are possible for those
who believe in Him.
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We believe that Jesus
Christ is God, the Living Word, and is eternally preexistent and
co-equal with God the Father; that He became flesh through His
miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth.
Therefore, He is perfect Deity and true humanity united in one
Person forever. He lived a sinless life and voluntarily atoned
for the sins of men by dying on the cross as their substitute,
thus satisfying divine justice and accomplishing salvation for
all who trust in Him alone. He rose from the dead in the
same body, though glorified, in which He lived and died. He
ascended bodily into heaven and sat down at the right hand of
God the Father, where He, the only Mediator between God and man,
continually makes intercession for His own. We believe in the
literal, physical return of the Lord Jesus Christ to take authority
and rule on earth, and to judge the living and the dead.
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We believe that the Holy
Spirit is co-equal and co-eternal with the Father and the Son;
that He was active in the creation of all things; that He has
come into the world to reveal and glorify Christ; that He convicts
the world of sin, righteousness and judgement; and that He regenerates,
sanctifies, baptizes, indwells, seals, anoints, illumines, guides
and bestows His gifts upon all believers. His fullness, power
and holiness are appropriated in the believer's life through faith
and obedience.
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We believe that man
(male and female) was originally created in the image and likeness
of God. He was created to reflect the glory of God and represent
Him on this earth.He was tempted by the devil and fell through
disobedience to God. All men are born with a sinful nature
and are separated from the life of God. They can be saved only
through the atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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We believe that salvation
is by God's grace and is a gift of God received by faith alone,
apart from all good works and merit, and includes the forgiveness
of sins, the imputation of the righteousness of Jesus Christ and
the gift of eternal life. We believe that those who receive Jesus
Christ as Saviour and Lord are miraculously born again by the
Holy Spirit and become children of God and partakers of His divine
nature. We are assured and know that all things are working together
and are fitting into a plan for good to and for those who love
God and are called according to His design and purpose. God has
planned from the beginning for man to be molded into the image
of His Son, Jesus, and share inwardly His likeness; therefore,
man can only find his true identity and destiny in the Lord Jesus
Christ.
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We believe in the universal
Church, the living spiritual body of which
Jesus Christ is the Head and all regenerated persons are members,
and in the unity of all believers in Christ with the evidence
of that unity being shown by how we love one another. The Church
has been commissioned by Him to go into all the world as a witness,
preaching the gospel to all nations and making disciples through
the equipping of the saints. The Church has been given the anointing
of Isaiah 61 to continue the ministry begun by Jesus when He was
upon this earth. We believe that the believer possesses great
authority through Christ over the powers of spiritual darkness
led by Satan, the ruler of this world. We actively exercise this
authority as we walk by faith; pray; do spiritual warfare; minister
healing and deliverance in the Name of Jesus; exercise spiritual
gifts; and progress to spiritual maturity in Christ.
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