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The Holy Scriptures: The Bible is the inerrant, infallible, inspired Word of God that is the only authority for our rule of faith and practice.
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The One Triune God: Revealed to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- The Father: The sovereign, spiritual, personal Creator & Sustainer of the universe.
- The Son: The eternal Word and Only Begotten Son of God, the Promised Messiah, pre-existent before the world, virgin-born, sinless yet perfectly human, crucified, risen from the dead and returning for His church.
- The Holy Spirit: Giving revelation and redemption, convicting, regenerating, indwelling, baptizing, sealing and anointing all who become children of God through Jesus, empowering and infilling believers who daily surrender to Him.
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The fallen nature of man: Man is by nature and choice sinful and lost, having no possible means of salvation within himself.
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Salvation by grace through faith: The shed blood of Jesus is the only atonement for sin and salvation is accomplished only by faith in that shed blood--faith alone. It is received as a gift from God, not as a result of man's work or moral merit.
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Two ordinances are given to the local church:
- Baptism, which is by total immersion of the believer in water, to symbolize, in a beautiful way, the believer's death to the old life and his resurrection to a new life in Christ.
- The Lord's Supper, in which the cup and the bread represent the shed blood and the body of Christ
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