Our History What We Believe Our Staff		Salvation We believe that salvation of sinners rests in the perfect work of Jesus Christ on the cross, the just for the unjust, that He might bring the lost to God.  This implies:  1) The necessity of His being born of a virgin before she "knew a man" (Luke 1:34).  Before Joseph and Mary came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.  That which was conceived in her was of the Holy Spirit in fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:18-25).  2) The eternally existing Son of God became flesh and lived among men, teaching and preaching until His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension; now to appear in the presence of God the Father and is coming again to receive His redeemed people unto Himself. We believe that salvation may be regarded by God's people as past, present, and future.  Salvation is by faith in the substitutionary atoning work of Jesus Christ in His death burial and resurrection from the grave (I Corinthians 15:1-8).  "Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God" (Romans 10:17).  The faithful teaching and preaching of the whole counsel of God is the means used by the Holy Spirit to convict men of sin, righteousness, and certain judgment to come.  Repentance is the knowledge and sorrow for sin and the willingness to forsake all that is displeasing to God, confessing freely to Him all past sins, asking forgiveness in Jesus' name, and making restitution so far as possible for sin to men.  Regeneration is the work of God in which the repentant sinner is born from above as the Scripture declare.  "But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God" (I John 1:12-13). We believe that the church is a spiritual organism composed of all born again believers.  It is manifested in both the local bodies of New Testament believers and as the mystical body of Christ composed of all born again believers throughout the world.  Growth in grace and in the knowledge of the Son of God equips the child of God to serve Him in righteousness and true holiness in his heart, his home, his church, and among his fellowman at home and abroad.

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