ARTICLES OF FAITH & DOCTRINE

To be interpreted as expressed in and according to the natural and literal meaning of the respective passages of the Word of God referred to under each article. Click on an article for more information. Clicking on the Bible reference passage(s) will open a pop-up window showing the verse from the Literal Word.

WHAT WE BELIEVE

01 - The Inspiration and Authority of Scripture

02 - The Trinity of the Godhead

03 - The Deity and the Virgin Birth of our

Lord Jesus Christ

04 - The Personality, Deity and Present Mission

of the Holy Spirit

05 - Our Relationship With God and One Another

06 - The Fall of Humanity

07 - The Total Depravity of Humans

08 - Salvation by Grace through Faith

09 - The Atonement of the Blood of Christ

10 - Regeneration by the Holy Spirit1

11 - The Believer’s Eternal Salvation

12 - Sanctification

13 - The Baptism with the Holy Spirit

14 - The Gifts of the Holy Spirit

15 - The Unity of the True Church in the

mystical Body of Christ

16 - The Pre-Millennial Coming of Our Lord

17 - The Resurrection of the Body

18 - The Eternal Blessedness of the Saved, and

the Eternal Punishment of the Lost

19 - The Personality of Satan

20 - Divine Healing of the Body

21 - Baptism

22 - The Lord’s Supper

14 - The Gifts of the Holy Spirit

We believe that the Holy Spirit administers spiritual gifts to the church to glorify Christ in the building of His body. We believe that God, the Holy Spirit, is sovereign in the bestowing of His gifts for the perfecting of the saints for the work of their ministry, and that it is not God’s will that any one gift should be given to all believers, although all believers have at least one gift.

We believe that whenever spiritual gifts are exercised, they should always be within the limits expressly given in the Scriptures (e.g. I Corinthians 14:23-40). We believe that in the early church speaking in tongues (a human language unknown to the speaker), and the working of miracles were sign gifts demonstrated primarily to authenticate God’s revelation through the apostles and the baptism of the Holy Spirit. We believe that today such signs are not necessary to give evidence of the baptism or of the filling of the Spirit, nor are they a mark of spiritual maturity. We believe that special divine revelation for authoritative Scripture ceased with the Apostolic Age.