Community Bible Chapel


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Cohasset, MN
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The Scriptures:

We believe in the authority and sufficiency of the Holy Bible, consisting of the sixty-six books of the Old Testament and New Testament, as originally written; that it was verbally and plenary inspired and is the product of Spirit controlled men, and therefore is infallable and inerrant in all matters in which it speaks. We believe the Bible to be the true center of Christian unity and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creed, and opinions shall be tried. (2 Tim. 3:16-17, 2 Pet. 1:19-21)

God:

We believe there is one and only one living and true God, and infinite Spirit, the Maker and supreme Ruler of heaven and earth; inexpressibly glorious in holiness, and worthy of all possible honor, confidence and love; that in the unity of the Godhead there are three Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, equal in every divine perfection and executing distinct but harmonious offices in the plan of redemption. (Exd. 20:2-3, 1 Cor. 8:6, Rev. 4:11)

Holy Spirit:

We believe that the Holy Spirit is a divine Person, equal with God the Father and God the Son and of the same nature; that He was active in creation, that He convicts the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment, that He bears witness to the truth of the gospel, that He is the agent of the New Birth, that He seals, endues, guides, teaches, sanctifies and aids the believer. (John 14:16-17, John 3:5-6, 16:8-11, Eph. 1:13)

Satan:

We believe in the reality and personality of Satan; and that he was created by God as an angel but through pride and rebellion became an enemy of his Creator, that he became the unholy god of this age and is destined to the judgment of an eternal justice in the lake of fire. (Matt. 4:1-11, 2 Cor. 4:4, Rev. 20:10)

Creation:

We believe in the Biblical account of the creation of the physical universe, angels and man, that this account is neither allegory nor myth, but a literal, historical account of the direct, immediate creative acts of God without any evolutionary process, that man was created by the direct work of God and not from previously existing forms of life, that Adam and Eve were real individuals, the first parents of the human race. (Gen. 1, 2, Col. 1:16-17)

Fall of Man:

We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God under the law of his Maker, but by voluntary transgression Adam fell from his sinless and happy state, and all men sinned in him, in consequence of which all men are sinners by nature and conduct. (Gen. 3:1-6, Rom. 3:10-19, 5:12)

Virgin Birth:

We believe that Jesus was begotten of the Holy Spirit in a miraculous manner, born of Mary, a virgin, as no other man was ever born or can be born of woman, and that He is both the Son of God and God the Son. (Isa. 7:14, Matt. 1:18-25, John 1:14)

 

Salvation:

We believe that the salvation of sinners is divinely initiated and wholly of grace through Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who, voluntarily took upon Himself our nature, yet without sin, and honored the divine law by His personal obedience, thus qualifying Himslef to be our Savior; that by the shedding of His blood in His death He fully satified the just demands of a holy and righeous God regarding sin; that His sacrifice was a voluntary substitution of Himself in the sinners place, Christ bearing our sins in His own body on the tree.

We believe that faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the only  condition of salvation. Repentance is a change of mind and purpose toward God, prompted by the Holy Spirit, and is an intregal part of saving faith.  (Eph. 2:8-9, Rom. 3:24-25, John 3:16, 1 Pet. 2:24)

 

Resurrection and Preisthood of Christ:

We believe in the bodily resurrection of Christ and in His ascension into Heaven, where He now sits at the right hand of the Father as our High Priest. (Matt. 26:6-7, Luke 24:39, 1 Cor. 15:4, Heb. 2:17, 5:9,10)

 

Grace and the New Birth:

We believe that in order to be saved, sinners must be born again, that the new birth is a new creation in Christ Jesus, that it is instantaneous and not a process, that the new birth is brought about by God , solely by the power of the Holy Spirit in connection with divine truth.  (John 3:3, 2 Cor. 5:17, Col. 2:13, Eph. 2:8-9)

 Sanctification:

We believe that sanctification is the divine setting apart of the believer unto God, accomplished in a threefold manner: (1) an eternal act of God, based upon redemption in Christ, establishing the believer in a position of holiness at the moment of his salvation (2) a continuing process in the saint as the Holy Spirit applies the word of God to the life (3) the final accomplisment of this process at the Lord's return. (John 17:17, 2 Cor. 3:18, Eph. 5:25-27)

Church:

We believe that the local church is an organized congregation of immersed believers, assciated by covenant of faith and fellowship of the gospel; observing the ordinances of Christ; governed by His laws; and exercising the gifts, rights and privileges invested in then by His word, we believe the true mission of the church is the faithful witnessing of Christ to all men as we have opportunity. We hold that the local church has the absolute right of self-government, free from interference of any hierarchy of individuals  or organizations; and that the one and only Superintendent is Christ through the Holy Spirit; that it is scriptural for true churches to cooperate with each other in contending for the faith and for the furtherance of the gospel, that each local church is the sole judge of the measure and method of its cooperation, that all matters of membership, polity, discipline, benevolence, the will of the local church is final.  (Acts 20:17-28, 2:41-42)

Baptism and the Lord's Supper:

We believe that bpatism is the single immersion of a believer in water to show forth in a solemn and beautiful picture of our identification with Christ, that baptism is to be performed under the authority of the local church, and that it is prerequisite of church membership.

We believe that the Lord's Supper is the commemoration of His death until He come, and should be preceded always by self examination.

Rapture and Future Events:

We believe that Jesus Christ will return to the earth as He left it, that He will come prior to His establishing His kingdom on the earth. We believe in the imminent return of Christ, and at that moment the dead in Christ shall be raised and the living in Christ shall be transformed without tasting death, and all shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the air before the seven years the Tribulation; and that at the end of the Tribulation, Christ's Millennial kingdom will be ushered in, followed by the eternal state.(1 Thess. 4:13-18, 1 Cor. 15:42-44, Rev. 20:1-4,6)

Righteous and the Wicked:

We believe that there is a difference between the righteous and the wicked, that only those who are justified by grace through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and sancitified by the Holy Spirit are truly righteous in His esteem, while all such as continue in impenitence and unbelief are in His sight wicked and under condemnation, and this distiction holds among men both in and after death, that the destiny of the condemned is the lake of fire, while for the righteous heaven. (John 5:19, 8:21, Rev. 20:14-15)