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
04 - The Personality, Deity and Present Mission
05 - Our Relationship With God and One Another
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
13 - The Baptism with the Holy Spirit
14 - The Gifts of the Holy Spirit
15 - The Unity of the True Church in the
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
20 - Divine Healing of the Body
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.