We live in an age were people say it doesn’t matter what you believe as long as you believe in something. Public schools and society teach our children that there is no absolute truth. Is that what the Bible says? Ponder these verses about doctrine.
Hosea 4:6 (NIV) My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge…….. Acts 2:42 (NIV) They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching (doctrine) and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
Ephesians 4:14 (NIV) Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching (doctrine) and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming.
2 Timothy 3:16 (NIV) All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching (doctrine), rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
2 Timothy 4:2 (NIV) Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction. 3 For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
Titus 2:1 (NIV) You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine.
What we Believe
1. We believe the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, are the inspired, infallible and authoritative Word of God. They are the complete revelation of His will for the salvation of men and the divine and final authority for Christian faith and life.
2. In one God, Creator of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
3. That Jesus Christ is true God and true man. He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He died on the cross, as a sacrifice for our sins according to the Scriptures. Further, He arose bodily from the dead and ascended into heaven. He is now our advocate with God and our coming King.
4. That man was created in the image of God but fell into sin and is therefore separated from God. Only through repentance and faith in the death and resurrection of Christ, can he be forgiven of sin and experience new life, which is a relationship with God through the Holy Spirit.
5. That believing in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ provides the only way to be forgiven. Only people who believe this and receive Jesus Christ into their lives are born again and become children of God.
6. That the ministry of the Holy Spirit is to glorify Jesus Christ and to convince men of their sin and change them into new people by indwelling, guiding, instructing and empowering them for godly living and service. We believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit as an experience subsequent to salvation with the scriptual evidence found in Acts 2:4.
7. That water baptism and the Lord's Supper are ordinances to be observed by the Church. They are not to be regarded as a means of salvation.
8. That the true Church is composed of all people who through faith in Jesus Christ have been changed by the Holy Spirit.
9. That only those who are members of the true Church shall be eligible for membership in the local church.
10. That Jesus Christ is the Lord and Head of the Church and that every local church has the right, under Christ, to decide and govern its own affairs.
11. In the physical and imminent coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and that this hope has a vital bearing on the personal life and service of the believer.
12. In the bodily resurrection of the dead; of the believer to everlasting joy with the Lord; and of the unbeliever to judgment and everlasting conscious punishment.
