We believe the Bible to be the inspired and only infallible Word of God. We believe there is One God, eternally existent in three Persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
We believe in the Blessed Hope, which the rapture of the Church of God, which is in Christ, at His return.
We believe that the only means of being cleansed from sin is through repentance: faith in the precious Blood of Jesus Christ and being baptized in water. We believe that the regeneration by the Holy Ghost is absolutely essential for personal salvation.
We believe that the baptism in the Holy Spirit, by Whose indwelling, the Christian is enabled to live a holy and separated life in this present world. Amen.
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Mission conveys the Biblical idea of being sent; as expressed in Jesus' saying. "As the Father has sent me, I'm sending you" (John 20:21)
The parallel between God sending Jesus and Jesus sending his disciples describes both the method and the content of the mission.
The church's mission, then, encompasses everything Jesus sends his people in the world to do.
A church exists by mission as a fire exists by burning.
The church has a responsibiltiy to show what it means in practice to be reconciled and liberated community in the midst of a corrupt, distressed and despairing world. It's sent to demonstrate the reality of God's unmerited grace, by practicing forgiveness and by sharing of goods and resources to the less fortunate.
The church is a "steward of God", responsible both for being a light and an agent of transformation where God's peace and justice will reign.
