Beliefs
1. We believe in one God comprising the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, who is a personal Being of supreme intelligence, knowledge, love, justice, power and authority. He is the Creator of the heavens and the earth and all that is in them. He is the Source of life and the One for whom human life exists. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who is the Word and has eternally existed. We believe that He is the Messiah, the Christ, the divine Son of the living God, conceived of the Holy Spirit, born in the human flesh of the virgin Mary. We believe that it is by Him that God created all things and that without Him was not anything made that was made. We believe in the Holy Spirit, as the Spirit of God and of Christ Jesus. The Holy Spirit is the power of God and the Spirit of life eternal.
2. We believe that Scripture, both the Old and the New Testament, is God's revelation, and His complete, expressed will to humanity. Scripture is inspired in thought and word, infallible in the original writings, is the supreme and final authority in faith and in life, and is the foundation of all truth.
3. We believe that Satan is a spirit being who is the adversary of God and of the children of God. Satan has been given dominion over the world for a specific period of time. Satan aims to deceive humanity into rejecting God and His law. Satan has ruled by deception with the aid of a host of demons who are rebellious angels, spirit beings, who followed Satan in his rebellion.
4. We believe that humanity was created in the image of God to be children of God, partakers of His divine nature. As a result of the fall, human beings became mortal, subject to corruption and decay, and without eternal life, except as the gift of God under God's terms and conditions as expressed in the Bible. We believe that God placed before Adam and Eve the choice of eternal life through obedience to God, or death through sin. Adam and Eve yielded to temptation and disobeyed God. As a result, sin entered the world, and through sin, death. Death now reigns over all humanity because all have sinned.
5. We believe that sin is the transgression of the law. The law is spiritual, perfect, holy, just and good. The law defines God's love and is based upon the two great principles of love toward God and love toward neighbour, and is immutable and binding. The Ten Commandments are the ten points of God's law of love. We believe that breaking any one point of the law brings upon a person the penalty of sin. We believe that this fundamental spiritual law reveals the only way to true life and the only possible way of happiness, peace and joy. All unhappiness, misery, anguish and woe have come from transgressing God's law.
6. We believe God so loved this world that to rescue us from our sin, He gave His only begotten Son, who though in all points tempted as we are, lived without sin in the human flesh. That Son, who is Jesus Christ, gave His life as a perfect and complete sacrifice for the sins of humanity. His sacrifice was sufficient to atone for every person's sins. By making this atonement on our behalf, He made it possible, for each and every person to have their sins forgiven and to be released from the death penalty.
7. We believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead after His body lay three days and three nights in the grave, thus making immortality possible for mortal man. He thereafter ascended into heaven, where He now sits at the right hand of God the Father as our High Priest and Advocate.
8. We believe that all who truly repent of their sins in full surrender and willing obedience to God, and who by faith accept Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour, have their sins forgiven by an act of divine grace. Such individuals are justified, pardoned from the penalty of sin, and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, which literally abides within them and supplies the divine love that alone can fulfill the law and produce righteousness. They are baptized by the Spirit into the body of Christ, which is the true Church of God. We believe in a true change in life and attitude. Only those who have the indwelling presence of and are being led by the Holy Spirit are Christ's.
9. We believe in the ordinance of water baptism by immersion following repentance.
10. We believe in the laying on of hands with prayer for believers to receive the Holy Spirit, and in so doing become fully empowered to exercise their personal spiritual gifts.
11. We believe in God's enduring righteousness. That righteousness is demonstrated by God's faithfulness in fulfilling all of the promises He made to the father of the faithful, Abraham. As promised, God multiplied Abraham's lineal descendants so that Abraham literally became the "father" of many nations. We believe that God, as promised, materially prospered Abraham's lineal descendants Isaac and Jacob (whose name He later changed to Israel). We believe that God, through Abraham's Seed, Jesus Christ, is making salvation available to all humanity regardless of their physical lineage. Salvation is not therefore a right of birth. It is freely open to all whom God calls, and those who are regarded as descendants of Abraham are those of the faith, heirs according to the promises. We believe that the knowledge that God has fulfilled and continues to fulfil the physical promises made to Abraham and his children, and is fulfilling the spiritual promise through Jesus Christ, is critical to understanding the message of the prophets and its application to the world in which we live.
12. We believe God's purpose for mankind is to prepare those whom He calls, and who elect through a life of overcoming sin, developing righteous character, and growing in grace and knowledge, to reign with Christ on this earth after His return. We believe that the reason for mankind's existence is literally to be born as spirit beings into the family of God.
13. We believe that the Church is that body of believers who have received, and are being led by, the Holy Spirit. We believe that the mission of the Church is to preach the gospel (good news) of the coming Kingdom of God to all nations as a witness, and to help reconcile to God such people as are now being called. We believe that it is also the mission of the Church of God to strengthen, edify and nurture the children of God in the love and admonition of our Lord Jesus Christ.
14. We believe it is incumbent upon all believers to practise giving and help the needy.
15. We believe in the personal, visible, premillennial return of the Lord Jesus Christ to rule the nations on earth as King of kings and Lord of lords. During His thousand-year reign upon the earth, He will restore all things and establish the Kingdom of God forever.