We accept the Holy Scripture as the revealed will of God, the all-sufficient rule for faith and practice; and for the purpose of maintaining spiritual and general unity we adopt the following statement of Fundamental Truths:
A. We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God, inerrant in the original autographs.
B. We believe that there is one God eternally self-existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
C. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious, substitutionary and propitiatory death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, in the rapture of His ekklesia at His coming, and in His personal visible return in power and glory.
D. We believe that man has been imperfected and corrupted by sin, and is lost and separated from God, and that salvation is attained only by personal and individual acceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour.
E. We believe that regeneration by the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential to maintain personal purity and holiness, enabling us to live a Godly life.
F. We believe that the baptism of the Holy Spirit, according to Acts 2:4, is given to believers who ask for it.
G. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
H. We believe in the spiritual unity of believers who base their faith in the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ as He is presented in the biblical accounts of His birth, life, death, resurrection and ascendency into heaven where He now sits at the right hand of the Father. There is no unity to be found for the true disciples of Jesus Christ in anything other than the truth of the word of God as expressed in the original autographs which have been translated into many different versions. Most, if not all, of these translated versions contain erroneous words and phrases that were selected to influence the thoughts of the reader for the purpose of advancing the agendas of men, rather than express the will and purpose of God for His people. “Unity” based on anything other than the truth of the word of God, as explained, is not unity, it is compromise.
I. We believe the biblical tithe to be an example of giving by the people of God as expressed according to the Divine love of God (John 3:16), the dedication of your life to God (Romans 6:13) and desire for the largesse of God (2 Corinthians 9:6-15).
J. We believe in divine healing through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ on the cross.
K. We believe water baptism by immersion is a scriptural commandment.
L. We believe “communion” as a memorial of Jesus Christ is a scriptural commandment. As such it consists of a full fellowship meal eaten with the saints at a gathering of a local ekklesia. It has nothing to do with a thimble of grape juice and a stale cracker. The word communion is koinonia, which according to Strong’s Dictionary means “partnership, i.e. (literally) participation, or (social) intercourse, or (pecuniary) benefaction.” It is variously translated in the KJV as: “(to) communicate (-ation), communion, (contri-) distribution, fellowship.” It can readily be seen that this “communion,” or “fellowship” includes sharing, socializing and supporting, and at a meeting of a biblically based local ekklesia, is an integral part of sharing what you have with others in addition to the socializing which obviously takes place and also supporting those who have unmet needs, both material and spiritual. A sip of grape juice and a piece of dry cracker consumed without a true gathering together of the saints at a full meal and Godly fellowship of sharing while also socializing and while some members of that ekklesia and the fatherless, widows, strangers in the land and the true spiritual Levites of God are lacking basic unmet needs is a parody of the command and an affront and an insult to our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
