The Bible
1.1. The Bible comprises of the thirty-nine books of the Old Testament and twenty-seven books of the New Testament. We believe that the Bible is the divinely inspired Word of God. As such, it is our final authority for all matters of faith and practice. It is free from error in its original form. The Bible in its entirety is the source of the full counsel of God in maters of doctrine, and in issues related to Christian life and conduct.
Exodus 24:4; Deuteronomy 4:1-2; 17:19; Joshua 8:34; Psalms 19:7-10; 119:11,89,105,140; Isaiah 34:16; 40:8; Jeremiah 15:16; 36:1-32; Matthew 5:17-18; 22:29; Luke 21:33; 24:44-46; John 5:39; 16:13-15; 17:17; Acts 2:16ff.; 17:11; Romans 15:4; 16:25-26; 2 Timothy 3:15-17; Hebrews 1:1-2; 4:12; 1 Peter 1:25; 2 Peter 1:19-21.
God
2.1. There is one God creator of all visible and invisible creation. God is eternal and Sprit. God is one in His Godhead or divine essence. In the unity of the divine essence, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are distinct divine persons of the Godhead. All the three persons of the Godhead eternally co-existent and are co-equal in divine attributes. Each person of the Godhead is a distinct person and is truly Deity.
2.2.God the Father
2.2.1. The Father is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent. He is The Father of Jesus Christ our Lord in all eternity. He is the one who gave Christ Jesus for the salvation of the World. He adopted us to become His children. The Holy Spirit proceeds from Him. He sent the Holy Spirit to become the Spirit of adoption and the earnest of our salvation.
Genesis 1:1; 2:7; Exodus 3:14; 6:2-3; 15:11ff.; 20:1ff.; Leviticus 22:2; Deuteronomy 6:4; 32:6; 1 Chronicles 29:10; Psalm 19:1-3; Isaiah 43:3,15; 64:8; Jeremiah 10:10; 17:13; Matthew 6:9ff.; 7:11; 23:9; 28:19; Mark 1:9-11; John 4:24; 5:26; 14:6-13; 17:1-8; Acts 1:7; Romans 8:14-15; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Galatians 4:6; Ephesians 4:6; Colossians 1:15; 1 Timothy 1:17; Hebrews 11:6; 12:9; 1 Peter 1:17; 1 John 5:7.
2.3.God the Son
2.3.1. We believe in Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God the Father. He is of the same substance as the Father and the Holy Spirit. Everything was created through Him and to Him. He was conceived of the Virgin Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit. In His incarnation He is fully divine and fully human, one person in two natures. We believe in His sinless life, miracles that He performed and in His atoning death and bodily resurrection. He ascended into heaven and was seated at the right hand of the Father. He is the eternal high priest of our salvation who is interceding on our behalf in the heavenly temple. We believe in His premillenial second coming. He will come again to judge the world.
Genesis 18:1ff.; Psalms 2:7ff.; 110:1ff.; Isaiah 7:14; 53; Matthew 1:18-23; 3:17; 8:29; 11:27; 14:33; 16:16,27; 17:5; 27; 28:1-6,19; Mark 1:1; 3:11; Luke 1:35; 4:41; 22:70; 24:46; John 1:1-18,29; 10:30,38; 11:25-27; 12:44-50; 14:7-11; 16:15-16,28; 17:1-5, 21-22; 20:1-20,28; Acts 1:9; 2:22-24; 7:55-56; 9:4-5,20; Romans 1:3-4; 3:23-26; 5:6-21; 8:1-3,34; 10:4; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 2:2; 8:6; 15:1-8,24-28; 2 Corinthians 5:19-21; 8:9; Galatians 4:4-5; Ephesians 1:20; 3:11; 4:7-10; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 1:13-22; 2:9; 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18; 1 Timothy 2:5-6; 3:16; Titus 2:13-14; Hebrews 1:1-3; 4:14-15; 7:14-28; 9:12-15,24-28; 12:2; 13:8; 1 Peter 2:21-25; 3:22; 1 John 1:7-9; 3:2; 4:14-15; 5:9; 2 John 7-9; Revelation 1:13-16; 5:9-14; 12:10-11; 13:8; 19:16.
2.4.God the Holy Spirit
2.4.1. The Holy Spirit is fully divine person, and is of one being with the Father and the Son. He is the author of the scripture. He inspired holy men of God to write the Old and New Testaments. He convicts men of sin, righteousness and judgment. He calls men to believe in the Savior. He brings about the miracle of new birth in the life of people who are trusting Jesus Christ for their salvation.
2.4.2. The Holy Spirit baptizes believers into the body of Christ. He is given to the believers as the earnest of their salvation. He works in and through the believers by helping them to produce the fruit of the Spirit, illuminating them through the word of God, counseling and guiding them into all truth. He empowers believers to be witness of Jesus Christ. He imparts spiritual gift on individual believers for the edification of the church.
Genesis 1:2; Judges 14:6; Job 26:13; Psalms 51:11; 139:7ff.; Isaiah 61:1-3; Joel 2:28-32; Matthew 1:18; 3:16; 4:1; 12:28-32; 28:19; Mark 1:10,12; Luke 1:35; 4:1,18-19; 11:13; 12:12; 24:49; John 4:24; 14:16-17,26; 15:26; 16:7-14; Acts 1:8; 2:1-4,38; 4:31; 5:3; 6:3; 7:55; 8:17,39; 10:44; 13:2; 15:28; 16:6; 19:1-6; Romans 8:9-11,14-16,26-27; 1 Corinthians 2:10-14; 3:16; 12:3-11,13; Galatians 4:6; Ephesians 1:13-14; 4:30; 5:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:19; 1 Timothy 3:16; 4:1; 2 Timothy 1:14; 3:16; Hebrews 9:8,14; 2 Peter 1:21; 1 John 4:13; 5:6-7; Revelation 1:10; 22:17.
Man
3.1.1. Man is created in the image of God. God created them male and female. We believe that all men are created equal and posses the full dignity of being bearers of the image of God. Man was endowed with a free will. Sin came into the world because of the disobedience of Adam. Through sin death reigned on every man. Man is born in sin. It is only by the grace of God that man can be saved and reconciled to his creator.
Genesis 1:26-30; 2:5,7,18-22; 3; 9:6; Psalms 1; 8:3-6; 32:1-5; 51:5; Isaiah 6:5; Jeremiah 17:5; Matthew 16:26; Acts 17:26-31; Romans 1:19-32; 3:10-18,23; 5:6,12,19; 6:6; 7:14-25; 8:14-18,29; 1 Corinthians 1:21-31; 15:19,21-22; Ephesians 2:1-22; Colossians 1:21-22; 3:9-11.
Salvation
4.1. Salvation is a gift of God to man. It is provided through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. He, by his own blood obtained an eternal redemption for those who trust in Him. There is no salvation to humankind outside of Jesus Christ. Those who have trusted in a living faith of saving work of our Lord Jesus Christ will be saved from condemnation and will be reconciled to God.
4.2. New Birth
4.2.1. The new birth is a work of God's redeeming grace on people who are repentant of their sins and trust Jesus Christ.
4.3. Justification and Sanctification
4.3.1. Justification is the act of God by which He accepts a believing sinner for a right relationship with Himself, on the ground of Christ's merit. Justification is the remission of the sins and the imputation of the righteousness of Jesus Christ for all people who trust Jesus Christ in a living faith. The ground of our justification is solely the righteousness of Jesus Christ. The believer can appropriate Justification by means of a living faith alone. Through justification God remits our sins and receives us into his favor by the imputation of our Lord's righteousness
4.3.2. Justification is a complete and permanent act of God, which has its effects in our past and future life.
4.3.3. Sanctification
Sanctification is the consequence of the believer's justification. Believers set apart to God's divine purpose through the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit. Through sanctification, Christians are progressively growing to be as holy as their Heavenly Father. Sanctification is a continuous process throughout this earthly life. We as Christians need to live a sanctified life during our earthly life.
Genesis 3:15; Exodus 3:14-17; 6:2-8; Matthew 1:21; 4:17; 16:21-26; 27:22-28:6; Luke 1:68-69; 2:28-32; John 1:11-14,29; 3:3-21,36; 5:24; 10:9,28-29; 15:1-16; 17:17; Acts 2:21; 4:12; 15:11; 16:30-31; 17:30-31; 20:32; Romans 1:16-18; 2:4; 3:23-25; 4:3ff.; 5:8-10; 6:1-23; 8:1-18,29-39; 10:9-10,13; 13:11-14; 1 Corinthians 1:18,30; 6:19-20; 15:10; 2 Corinthians 5:17-20; Galatians 2:20; 3:13; 5:22-25; 6:15; Ephesians 1:7; 2:8-22; 4:11-16; Philippians 2:12-13; Colossians 1:9-22; 3:1ff.; 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24; 2 Timothy 1:12; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 2:1-3; 5:8-9; 9:24-28; 11:1-12:8,14; James 2:14-26; 1 Peter 1:2-23; 1 John 1:6-2:11; Revelation 3:20; 21:1-22:5.
Church
5.1. Universal Church
The universal church is the body of believers, which includes the redeemed Saints of the Lord through all ages.
5.2. Local Church
5.2.1. The local church is a fellowship of believers who have been called out of the world through the preaching of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that members of a local church are those who are united with their Savior's death and resurrection through water baptism.
5.2.2. The church is governed by the word of God. The ministers of the church are fully responsible to equip, train and feed the congregation with the word of God. And the scriptural officers of the church are pastors and elders.
5.2.3. The local church has duty and responsibility to worship and serve God by observing the ordinances of the Lord and spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Matthew 16:15-19; 18:15-20; Acts 2:41-42,47; 5:11-14; 6:3-6; 13:1-3; 14:23,27; 15:1-30; 16:5; 20:28; Romans 1:7; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 3:16; 5:4-5; 7:17; 9:13-14; 12; Ephesians 1:22-23; 2:19-22; 3:8-11,21; 5:22-32; Philippians 1:1; Colossians 1:18; 1 Timothy 2:9-14; 3:1-15; 4:14; Hebrews 11:39-40; 1 Peter 5:1-4; Revelation 2-3; 21:2-3.
Holy Ordinances
6.1. The Lord's Supper
The Lord's Supper is a holy ordinance given to us by the Lord. We are commanded by the Scripture, to remember the death of our redeemer and anticipate His second coming when we partake the bread and wine.
Exodus 20:8-11; Matthew 12:1-12; 28:1ff.; Mark 2:27-28; 16:1-7; Luke 24:1-3,33-36; John 4:21-24; 20:1,19-28; Acts 20:7; Romans 14:5-10; I Corinthians 16:1-2; Colossians 2:16; 3:16; Revelation 1:10.
Baptism
7.1. We believe that water baptism is the immersion of a believer in water in the name of The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit. It is done as an act of obedience, which symbolizes the believer's union with the death, burial and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The performance of the water baptism is done to people who have accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Through water baptism believers are added to the local church to become members.
Matthew 3:13-17; 26:26-30; 28:19-20; Mark 1:9-11; 14:22-26; Luke 3:21-22; 22:19-20; John 3:23; Acts 2:41-42; 8:35-39; 16:30-33; 20:7; Romans 6:3-5; 1 Corinthians 10:16,21; 11:23-29; Colossians 2:12.
Marriage
8.1. Marriage is the union of man and woman in a covenantal commitment to live together for a lifetime.
8.2. Christian marriage is based on the fact that both the man and the woman have made commitment to Christ. We believe that this is foundational to their fulfilling their commitment to each other.
8.3. A commitment to Christ, and a demonstration of obedience to this commitment, is prerequisite for a christian marriage.
Genesis 2:15-25; Proverbs 31:10-31; Malachi 2:14-16; Mathew 5:31-32; Mathew 19:3-9; Mark 10:6-9; Romans 1:18-32: 1 Corinthians 7:1-16; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Ephesians 5:21-33; Hebrews 13:4
Last Things
9.1. God, in His sovereign will, brings the world to its end at the time of His own appointment.
9.2. We believe in the rupture of the Church. Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to earth to establish His promised millennial kingdom.
9.3. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the believers and unbelievers. The believers in their resurrected and glorified bodies will be rewarded and will live forever with the Lord. The unbelievers in their resurrected bodies will suffer forever in Hell.
Isaiah 2:4; 11:9; Matthew 16:27; 18:8-9; 19:28; 24:27,30,36,44; 25:31-46; 26:64; Mark 8:38; 9:43-48; Luke 12:40,48; 16:19-26; 17:22-37; 21:27-28; John 14:1-3; Acts 1:11; 17:31; Romans 14:10; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 15:24-28,35-58; 2 Corinthians 5:10; Philippians 3:20-21; Colossians 1:5; 3:4; 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18; 5:1ff.; 2 Thessalonians 1:7ff.; 2; 1 Timothy 6:14; 2 Timothy 4:1,8; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 9:27-28; James 5:8; 2 Peter 3:7ff.; 1 John 2:28; 3:2; Jude 14; Revelation 1:18; 3:11; 20:1-22:13.
