The Scriptures
The Holy Bible was written by
men divinely inspired and is God's revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God
for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
God
There is one and only one living and true God. …The eternal God reveals Himself to
us as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.
God the Father
God as Father reigns with
providential care over His universe, His creatures, and the flow of the stream of human history according to the purposes
of His grace. …God is Father in truth to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ.
God the Son
Christ is the eternal Son of God. In His incarnation
as Jesus Christ, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. …He honored the divine law by His
personal obedience, and in His death on the cross, He made provision for the redemption of men from sin.
God the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God. …He
exalts Christ. He convicts of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. …He enlightens and empowers the believer and the
church in worship, evangelism, and service.
Man
Man
was created by the special act of God, in His own image, and is the crowning work of His creation. …By his free choice
man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. … The sacredness of human personality is evident in that
God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore every man possesses dignity and is worthy of
respect and Christian love.
Salvation by Grace Through Faith
Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ
as Lord and Saviour, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. In its broadest sense salvation includes
regeneration, sanctification, and glorification.
God's Purpose
of Grace
Election is the gracious purpose of God, according to which He regenerates, sanctifies, and
glorifies sinners. …All true believers endure to the end. Those whom God has accepted in Christ, and sanctified by
His Spirit will never fall away from the state of grace, but shall persevere to the end.
The Church
A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is a local body of baptized believers
who are associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel…and seeking to extend the gospel to the ends
of the earth. …This church is an autonomous body. …The New Testament speaks also of the church as the body of
Christ, which includes all of the redeemed of all the ages.
Baptism
& the Lord's Supper
Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water. …It is an act
of obedience symbolizing the believer's faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Saviour, the believer's death to sin, the
burial of the life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus.
The
Lord's Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members … memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate
His second coming.
The Lord's Day
The
first day of the week is the Lord's Day. …It commemorates the resurrection of Christ from the dead and should be employed
in exercises of worship and spiritual devotion.
Last Things
God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appropriate end. …Jesus Christ
will return personally and visibly…the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous
will be consigned to Hell. …The righteous… will receive their reward and will dwell forever in Heaven with the
Lord.
Evangelism & Missions
It is
the duty and privilege of every follower of Christ and every church of the Lord Jesus Christ to endeavor to make disciples
of all nations … to seek constantly to win the lost to Christ by personal effort.
Education
The cause of education in the Kingdom of Christ is co-ordinate with the causes of
missions and general benevolence … there should be a proper balance between academic freedom and academic responsibility.
…The freedom of a teacher in a Christian school, college, or seminary is limited by the pre-eminence of Jesus Christ,
by the authoritative nature of the Scriptures, and by the distinct purpose for which the school exists.
Stewardship
God is the source of all blessings, temporal and spiritual;
all that we have and are we owe to Him. Christians have a spiritual debtorship to the whole world, a holy trusteeship in the
gospel, and a binding stewardship in their possessions. They are therefore under obligation to serve Him with their time,
talents, and material possessions.
Cooperation
Christ's
people should … organize such associations and conventions as may best secure cooperation for the great objects of
the Kingdom of God. Such organizations have no authority over one another or over the churches. …Cooperation is desirable
between the various Christian denominations.
The Christian
& the Social Order
Every Christian is under obligation to seek to make the will of Christ supreme
in his own life and in human society. ... The Christian should oppose in the spirit of Christ every form of greed, selfishness,
and vice.
Religious Liberty
Church and
state should be separate. The state owes to every church protection and full freedom in the pursuit of its spiritual ends.
…A free church in a free state is the Christian ideal.
Family
God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human society. …Marriage is the unity
of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime. …The husband and wife are of equal worth before God,
since both are created in God's image. The marriage relationship models the way God relates to His people. …Children,
from the moment of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the Lord.
Eternal Security
Those that trust in the Death, Burial and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ are "sealed
unto the day of redemption: and eternally saved.
Satan
Satan is literal and personal, ws created holy but through pride and wicked ambition rebelled against God,
case from Heaven and given limited reign of the earth with evil spirits. Defeated at Calvary, but God allows his devices to
be used,but only to bring glory to the Lord Jesus. The Christian has power of resistance and victory through the Blood of
Jesus Christ. Satan's doom is certain.
Heaven and Hell
The Bible teaches there is a literal Heaven being prepared for the saints of God and there is a literal
Hell for those that reject the Lord Jesus Christ.
Second Coming
The Bible teaches the pretribulational, premillennial and imminent return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
First is the "Catching away" of the saints, then a seven-year period of tribulation, then the Second Coming of the
Lord to rule and to reign over the earth for the millennium.
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