We are Christian Bible Students.
We accept Christ as our personal Savior, and believe that he died not only for the Christian, but for all the world.
We accept the Bible as the inspired Word of God, and study it in its entirety, both the Old and the New Testaments, seeking the harmony of complete scriptural testimony (2 Timothy 3:16, 17).
We believe each individual is responsible to personally study and prove the interpretation of the Bible for himself (2 Timothy 2:15). We strongly recommend topical Bible study as the best means of arriving at God’s meaning on each subject and provide study aids to that end. We support continual Bible reading on a personal basis.
To us, the Scriptures clearly teach…
THAT THE CHURCH IS “THE TEMPLE” OF THE LIVING GOD – peculiarly “his workmanship”; that its construction has been in progress throughout the Gospel Age – ever since Christ became the world’s Redeemer and the chief “corner stone” of this temple, through which, when finished, God’s blessings shall come “to all people”, and they find access to him. I Corinthians 3:16, 17; Ephesians 2:20-22; Genesis 28:14; Galatians 3:29
THAT MEANTIME THE CHISELING, SHAPING AND POLISHING of consecrated believers in Christ’s atonement for sin progresses, and when the last of these “living stones,” “elect and precious,” shall have been made ready, the great Master Workman will bring all together in the first resurrection; and the temple shall be filled with his glory, and be the meeting place between God and men throughout the Millennium – Revelation 15:5-8
THAT THE BASIS OF HOME FOR THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD lies in the fact that Jesus Christ, by the grace of God, tasted death for every man, “a ransom for all,” and will be “the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world,” “in due time.” – Hebrews 2:9; John 1:9; I Timothy 2:5,6
THAT THE HOPE OF THE CHURCH is that she may be like her Lord, “see him as he is,” be a “partaker of the divine nature,” and share his glory as his joint heir. – I John 3:2; John 17:24; Romans 8:17; II Peter 1:4
THAT THE PRESENT MISSION OF THE CHURCH is the perfecting of the saints for the future work of service; to develop in herself every grace; to be God’s witness to the world; and to prepare to be the kings and priests of the next age. – Ephesians 4:12; Matthew 24:14; Revelation 1:6, 20:6
THAT THE HOPE FOR THE WORLD lies in the blessings of knowledge and opportunity to be brought to all by Christ’s millennial kingdom – the restitution of all that was lost in Adam, to all the willing and obedient, at the hands of their Redeemer and his glorified church – when all the willfully wicked will be destroyed. – Acts 3:19-23; Isaiah 35
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