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At Hope Church, we believe:
1. In the Divine verbal and plenary inspiration of the Original autographs of the Old and New testaments of the Bible to the exclusion of the Apocrypha and that these Scriptures are absolute in authority, complete in revelation, final in content, without any error in teaching, those having supreme authority in all matters pertaining to faith, conduct, Christian life and the Christian Church.
2. In the existence of one and only living and true God and that in the unity of the Godhead there are three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The same in essence, equal in attributes, and in every Divine perfection executing distinct but harmonious offices in the great work of creation, redemption and salvation.
3. In the miraculous Virgin birth and absolute deity of the Lord Jesus Christ: In His sacrificial, substitutionary death on the cross of Calvary to make atonement for sin by the shedding of His precious blood once for all: in His literal bodily resurrection, His ascension to heaven from the Mount of Olives, in His intercession for the saints at the right hand of the Father, and in His visible, bodily pre-millennial return.
4. In his personality, deity and power of the Holy Spirit of God convicting the world of sin and in the necessity and efficiency of His work in the enlightenment, regeneration, sanctification, endowment, resurrection and glorification of each believer.
5. In the creation of man in the image and likeliness of God and not by an evolutionary process; in the terrible reality of the fall of man, and in the total, universal depravity of mankind which has rendered him helpless, and hopeless of salvation from sin by his own efforts.
6. In the redemption and salvation of sinners by grace alone through the editorial office of the Son of God, who by shedding His blood made a complete atonement of sins once for all.
7. In the full and free forgiveness of all the sins of any and all who receive the Lord Jesus Christ as their own personal Savior.
8. In the absolute necessity of regeneration as the initial step in salvation, i.e., sinners must be born again in order to be saved; that at new birth Christ comes to dwell in the believer by the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of the believer being miraculously united to him, making him the righteousness of God in Christ, that the proper evidence of the new birth appears in the holy fruit of repentance, faith, and newness of life.
9. In the “Eternal Security” of believers; that it is impossible for one born into the family of God to be lost and that a truly born again believer will be finally and ultimately preserved unto eternal salvation. That the souls of the believers are, at death, made perfect in holiness and immediately pass into glory; that the bodies of believers rest in the grave until their resurrection.
10. In the bodily resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust; the eternal bliss of the saved and the everlasting punishment of the wicked.
11. In the reality and personality of the devil, who together with a great multiple of other angels, fell from his first estate to become the enemy of God, man and all righteousness; and that the devil and his angels will ultimately be cast into the lake of fire.
12. That all born-again believers should obey the Lord in the waters of baptism by immersion and that baptism is for born again believers only; and that baptism has no saving efficacy, but rather is an act of loving obedience toward God.
13. In the privilege and responsibility which each baptized believer has in partaking of the communion service with God’s people who are walking in the light and obedience to the Word of God; that the bread and wine are symbols only; that the communion service has no saving efficacy, but is a service of commemoration to assist the believer to mediate upon the suffering and death of Christ, till His return.
14. We believe that the fullness of the Holy Spirit as absolutely essential for effective Christian service.
15. That a truly Scriptural Church is a congregation of born again believers who have been baptized scripturally by immersion.
16. That the believers ought to be separated unto Christ from all worldly and sinful practices unto a life of Christian influence and service; that it is the obligation and duty of every believer to abstain from all appearances of evil, to avoid all things whereby a brother is made to stumble, in the necessity of maintaining according to the word of God, the purity of the Church in life and doctrine.
17. That it is the obligation of every believer to witness by word and by deed to these truths and proclaim the Gospel.
2. In the existence of one and only living and true God and that in the unity of the Godhead there are three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The same in essence, equal in attributes, and in every Divine perfection executing distinct but harmonious offices in the great work of creation, redemption and salvation.
3. In the miraculous Virgin birth and absolute deity of the Lord Jesus Christ: In His sacrificial, substitutionary death on the cross of Calvary to make atonement for sin by the shedding of His precious blood once for all: in His literal bodily resurrection, His ascension to heaven from the Mount of Olives, in His intercession for the saints at the right hand of the Father, and in His visible, bodily pre-millennial return.
4. In his personality, deity and power of the Holy Spirit of God convicting the world of sin and in the necessity and efficiency of His work in the enlightenment, regeneration, sanctification, endowment, resurrection and glorification of each believer.
5. In the creation of man in the image and likeliness of God and not by an evolutionary process; in the terrible reality of the fall of man, and in the total, universal depravity of mankind which has rendered him helpless, and hopeless of salvation from sin by his own efforts.
6. In the redemption and salvation of sinners by grace alone through the editorial office of the Son of God, who by shedding His blood made a complete atonement of sins once for all.
7. In the full and free forgiveness of all the sins of any and all who receive the Lord Jesus Christ as their own personal Savior.
8. In the absolute necessity of regeneration as the initial step in salvation, i.e., sinners must be born again in order to be saved; that at new birth Christ comes to dwell in the believer by the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of the believer being miraculously united to him, making him the righteousness of God in Christ, that the proper evidence of the new birth appears in the holy fruit of repentance, faith, and newness of life.
9. In the “Eternal Security” of believers; that it is impossible for one born into the family of God to be lost and that a truly born again believer will be finally and ultimately preserved unto eternal salvation. That the souls of the believers are, at death, made perfect in holiness and immediately pass into glory; that the bodies of believers rest in the grave until their resurrection.
10. In the bodily resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust; the eternal bliss of the saved and the everlasting punishment of the wicked.
11. In the reality and personality of the devil, who together with a great multiple of other angels, fell from his first estate to become the enemy of God, man and all righteousness; and that the devil and his angels will ultimately be cast into the lake of fire.
12. That all born-again believers should obey the Lord in the waters of baptism by immersion and that baptism is for born again believers only; and that baptism has no saving efficacy, but rather is an act of loving obedience toward God.
13. In the privilege and responsibility which each baptized believer has in partaking of the communion service with God’s people who are walking in the light and obedience to the Word of God; that the bread and wine are symbols only; that the communion service has no saving efficacy, but is a service of commemoration to assist the believer to mediate upon the suffering and death of Christ, till His return.
14. We believe that the fullness of the Holy Spirit as absolutely essential for effective Christian service.
15. That a truly Scriptural Church is a congregation of born again believers who have been baptized scripturally by immersion.
16. That the believers ought to be separated unto Christ from all worldly and sinful practices unto a life of Christian influence and service; that it is the obligation and duty of every believer to abstain from all appearances of evil, to avoid all things whereby a brother is made to stumble, in the necessity of maintaining according to the word of God, the purity of the Church in life and doctrine.
17. That it is the obligation of every believer to witness by word and by deed to these truths and proclaim the Gospel.