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Good Question
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“What do you believe …?” Good Question, because if we believe right (like the Bible, viz. like God) then we know how to live right. Right beliefs/thinking bring about right living!
We believe the Bible is the living Word of God, God’s mind on every subject relevant to life and eternity! The Bible is God’s Words, given and kept for every generation, as He promised. We believe for those who read and speak English, the Authorized King James Version is the complete Word of God.
We believe Jesus is God as well as the Holy Spirit and the Father. We believe they are the triune Jehovah, the Godhead, the trinity, one living and true God revealed in three distinct persons with equal attributes.
We believe God is not willing that any should perish in eternal Hell, so Jesus the only begotten Son willingly came, as the Father gave Him, and the Holy Spirit glorified Him. The Lord Jesus Christ is the only Saviour for all peoples for all ages. Salvation is a gift that Jesus Christ Himself paid for by dying for all mankind’s sins and shedding His blood on Calvary’s Cross. He satisfied the holy wrath and justice of God and purchased our salvation by living a sinless perfect life, dying our death for us (the awful cost of sin) and shedding His precious blood. He was buried and rose from the dead 3 days later, was seen by hundreds and is alive for evermore! He IS coming back again.
The Lord Jesus has left His faithful Churches to carry out His Commission to preach the Gospel to every creature, here and abroad. We are to tell folks everywhere the whole message about Jesus Christ. “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12) Hence, salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone, plus nothing, minus nothing. If any man, woman, boy or girl would realize they are a sinner before God because they have done wrong and broken God’s laws and that all their good deeds/works will never get them any closer to Heaven; but that eternal salvation is based solely on what Jesus Christ has already done for them on the Cross. And if anyone would turn from their “good works” and their “bad deeds” and place their trust in Jesus Christ alone believing His death, burial and resurrection is the only sufficient way of salvation then they would get saved once and for all and forever and go to Heaven when they die! We are to then baptize the saved and disciple them to mature Christians to do likewise.
Likely that is enough to give you the heart of what we believe and for Whom we live! -Pastor Spence