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Although we have no desire to impose a human creed upon
another person's conscience, it is right and necessary as a professing
Christian church to set out a statement of those truths which we believe
to be fundamental to the Christian Faith, which we confess in our worship,
and upon which we are glad to have fellowship with other churches and
to receive as brothers and sisters those who desire to enter into membership
with us.
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We believe in the inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New
Testaments as originally given, their verbal inspiration from God and
their supreme authority as the only rule of faith and practice.
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We believe in One God in three Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
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We believe in the sovereignty of God in creation, providence, redemption
and judgement.
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We believe in the essential, absolute and eternal Deity of our Lord
Jesus Christ; his conception by the Holy Spirit; his birth of the
virgin Mary;
his real but sinless humanity; the authority and infallibility
of all his teaching; his voluntary humiliation in life as a Man
of Sorrows
culminating in his substitutionary death and a propitiatory sacrifice
for sin; his
resurrection from the dead on the third day in that very body that
had lain in the tomb; his ascension into heaven as the only and
eternal mediator
between God and man, interceding for his people at the right hand
of
the Father, and his personal return in power and glory.
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We believe in the personality and Deity of the Holy Spirit through
whom alone the soul is born again to saving repentance and faith
and by whom
the saints are sanctified through the truth; and in the need
of his presence and power in the worship and witness of the church.
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We believe in man's utter ruin and slavery to sin and Satan as
a result of the Fall and his salvation solely by grace through
faith
in Jesus
Christ whose righteousness imputed to him is the only ground
of acceptance before God.
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We believe in the resurrection of the body, the judgement of
the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, the everlasting
blessedness of
the saved
in the glory of the new creation and the everlasting
punishment of the lost
in the horrors of hell.
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We believe that Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church and
that this great universal body of believers is to be seen
locally where the
Word of God is faithfully preached, the sacraments are duly
administered,
discipline rightly exercised and practical love and concern
shown to
those in need.
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We
believe that there are only two sacraments, Baptism and the Lord's
Supper to be administered in the church and
that worship
is due to
God alone and must be in spirit and in truth.
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