Refiner's Fire Statement of Faith
1. We believe in the plenary-verbal inspiration of the accepted canon of Scriptures as originally given. The Scriptures are infallible, inerrant, and the sole and final authority for all matters of faith and conduct .
2. We believe in the eternal Godhead who has revealed Himself as One God existing in Three Persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, distinguishable but indivisible.
3. We believe in the creation, test and fall of man as recorded in Genesis; his total spiritual depravity and inability to attain to Divine righteousness.
4. We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of men, conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, very much God and very much man.
5. We believe Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again the third day, and personally appeared unto His disciples.
6. We believe in the bodily ascension of Jesus to heaven, His exaltation, and personal, literal and bodily coming again the second time for His Church.
7. We believe in the salvation of sinners by grace, through repentance and faith in the perfect and sufficient work of the cross of
8. We believe in the necessity of water baptism by immersion in the Name of the Eternal Godhead in order to fulfill the command of the Lord Jesus Christ.
9. We believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit as a real experience at or subsequent to salvation; with Scriptural evidence, namely, speaking in other tongues as the Holy Spirit gives utterance.
10. We believe in the operation of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit as enumerated by scripture in I Corinthians 12-14, and as manifested in the
11. We believe in the Spirit-filled life, a life of separation from the world and perfecting of holiness in the fear of God as expressing the true Christian faith.
12. We believe in the healing of the body by Divine power, or Divine healing in the varied aspects as practiced in the
13. We believe in the table of the Lord, commonly called Communion or the Lord's Supper, for believers.
14. We believe in the reality and personality of the Devil and eternal judgment in the
15. We believe in eternal life for believers, and eternal punishment for the unbelievers.
16. We believe that there is one true universal Church, made up of genuine believers, but this one universal Church is also composed of many local churches in given localities. These churches are under the sovereign Headship of the Lord Jesus Christ, exercising autonomous government under Him, administering all its local affairs and ministry, as well as the propagation of the Gospel.
17. We believe that the Government is ordained of God, and the powers that be are ordained as ministers of God to us for good. To resist the powers and the ordinances is to resist the ordinances of God. We are subject not only for wrath sake but for conscience sake, rendering to all their dues, custom to whom custom, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor. We declare our loyalty to our Government and its leaders and will assist in every way possible consistent with our faith in the Scriptures as Christian citizens.
