We believe that He is the creator of all that is, that He concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of men, that He hears and answers prayer, and that He saves from sin and spiritual death all who come to Him through Jesus Christ. We believe that God the Father is spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in His being, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth. We believe that God eternally exists in three persons - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit - and that these three are one God, having precisely the same nature, attributes, and perfections, and worthy of precisely the same homage, confidence, and obedience. We also believe that all the Scriptures were designed for practical instruction. We believe that all the Scriptures center around the Lord Jesus in His person and work in His first and second coming, and that no portion, even the Old Testament, is properly read or understood until it leads to Him. We believe the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, to be verbally inspired and completely inerrant in the original manuscripts and to be the supreme and final authority for what we believe and how we live. To encourage one another and work together as described in 1 Corinthians 3:8-9, "The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. Ministry is not an issue of duty, but rather, gratefully using gifts God gives as it states in Ephesians 4:11-12, "It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up. so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ." (NIV) To build up one another as defined in Ephesians 4:11-16, ".
To fulfill the Great Commission of Matthew 28:19-20, making "disciples of all nations and baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." (NIV)
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