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CHURCH OF CHRIST MAHIKENG

Statement of Faith:

• We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments in their original writing as fully inspired by God and accept them as the supreme and final authority for faith of life.
• We believe in one God, externally existing in three Persons – Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
• We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Father, conceived by the Holy Spirit, and born of the virgin Mary and is true God and true man.
• We believe that God created man in His own image, that man sinned, and thereby incurred the penalty of sin, which is death, physical and spiritual; that all human beings inherit a sinful nature which issues (in the case of those who reach moral responsibility) in actual transgression involving personal guilt.
• We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins a substitutionary sacrifice according to the Scriptures, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood.
• We believe in the bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus, His ascension into Heaven, and His present life as our High Priest and Advocate.
• We believe in the personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
• We believe that all who repent of their sin and receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God.
• We believe in the baptism in the Holy Spirit, empowering and equipping believers for service, with the accompanying supernatural gifts in the Holy Spirit, and in fellowship with the Holy Spirit. We believe in the divinely ordained apostolic, prophetic, evangelistic, pastoral, teaching and preaching ministries.
• We believe in the resurrection of both the just and the unjust, the eternal blessedness of the redeemed, and the eternal banishment of those who rejected the offer of salvation.
• We believe that the one true Church is the wholly company of those who have been redeemed by Jesus Christ and regenerated by the Holy Spirit; that the local church on earth should take its character from this conception from the Church spiritual and therefore, that the new birth and the personal confession of Christ are essentials of membership of the Body of Christ, which is His Church.
• We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ appointed two ordinances, Baptism in water and the Lord’s Supper – to be observed as acts of obedience and as perpetual witnesses to the cardinal facts of the Christian faith, that baptism is the immersion of the believer in water as a confession of identification with Christ in the burial and resurrection, and that the Lord’s Supper is the partaking of the emblems symbolic to the Savior’s broken Body and the shed blood, in remembrance of His sacrificial death, till He comes.
• We believe that the Bible teaches that without holiness no man can see the Lord. We believe in the doctrine of sanctification as a definite, yet progressive work of grace, commencing at the time of the new birth and carrying on until consummation of salvation.