What Like Faith is

1. We believe in God — God the Father — God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. 1st John 5:7.

2. We believe that Jesus Christ was and is God from all eternity as the Word. John 1:1, 2, 14.

3. We believe that the Holy Spirit, the third person in the Trinity, is God. Romans 15:13; Acts 1:2; I John 5:7.

4. We believe that God created all things, including man. Col. 1:16; Gen. 1:1; 2:7.

5. We believe in the sovereignty of God, in the salvation of men and in all things and that nothing can come to pass contrary to his divine will. Isaiah 40:12-31; Eph. 1:4-12; Rom. 9:15-16.

6. We believe there is a heaven and a hell and that they are real places. Rev. 4:1,2; Rev. 20:10-15.

7. We believe in the total depravity of man. There is nothing good in him until God gives him a new heart, until God makes him a new creation in Christ. Isa. 1:5-6; Ps. 58:3; Jer. 17:9; Rom. 3:9, 20; Ps. 51:5.

8. We believe that salvation of men is altogether of grace — God’s grace — and not by any good works of man. Eph. 2:8-10; Titus 3:5.
This salvation comes as the result of God’s choosing. Eph. 1:4-5.
For this choosing and salvation to become effective, it was necessary for Christ to die for our sins and rise from the dead the third day. Eph. 1:7; Acts 3:18; Acts 17:3; 1st Cor. 15:17-20.
We also believe it is necessary for man to hear the gospel of Christ, to come to REPENTANCE and FAITH in Christ before salvation is consummated. 2nd Thess. 2:13; John 3:14-18, 36; Acts 20:21.

9. We believe in Evangelism — the simple, scriptural proclamation of the gospel of Christ. Matt. 28:19-20; 1st Cor. 15:1-4.

10. We believe in the security of the believer. After he is born again he is a child of God and can never cease to be a child of God. John 14:10, 11; John 6:37; John 10:27-30; Col. 1:27.

11. We believe that Jesus founded the Church while He was yet on earth and ADDED to the Church on the day of Pentecost. Matt. 16:18; 18:17; Heb. 2:12; Acts 2:41,47.

12. We believe that only a local Church founded on the same principles as the Church Jesus founded while He was yet on earth can be called a true Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, that it is a self-governing body and that it must ever be free from all outside human control or dictation. 1st Peter 5:2, 3; Acts 11:22; Acts 16:4, 5; Acts 15:22-28.

13. We believe that baptism is immersion. It is to show forth the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord. It also shows our own death to sin and resurrection to a new life. Acts 8:38; Col. 2:12; Rom. 6:3, 4. It is not for salvation, but is a work of righteousness. Matt. 3:15.

14. We believe that one must be scripturally baptized (immersed) to first enter a New Testament Church. 1st Cor. 12:13; Eph. 4:5; Col. 1:24.

15. We believe that the Lord’s supper is a local Church ordinance; (I Cor. 11:2) and can only be observed in the Church; (I Cor. 11:18, 20) and that it is restricted to the members of the Church observing it; we also believe that it is threefold in nature: a supper of commemoration or a memorial supper, a supper of proclamation, and a supper of anticipation. I Cor. 11:25, 26.

16. We believe members may move from one church to another of like faith and order by letter or perhaps in some rare cases be received by statement. Romans 16:1-2.

17. We believe in both home and foreign missions. To be an obedient church, every church must have a part in sending out missionaries. God requires that missionaries be sent directly by a local New Testament Church. Matt. 28:19, 20; Acts 1:8; Acts 13:2, 3.

18. We believe in tithing. The Old Testament commanded it. The Lord Jesus endorsed it. Mal. 3:10; Luke 11:42.

19. We believe in the Premillenial return of our Lord, first, to catch away his own to be forever with Him; and then to return to rule the world in person for one thousand years. 1st Thess. 4:14-18; Rev. 20:4; Luke 1:32; Zech. 14:4, 9.

20. We believe in the judgment of rewards for God’s children. 1st Cor. 3:11-15.

21. We believe in the judgment of damnation for those who will not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. Rev.
20:5, 11-15.