CONSTITUTION FOR THE COMMUNITY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

Thompson Falls, Montana
dated January 24, 2010

ARTICLE IV. -- FAITH AND COVENANT

2.  This church recognizes the Bible as the sole and sufficient rule of faith and practice.  We invite all who live in accordance with its teaching to join us in our common worship and ministry.  Each member shall have the right to follow the word of God according to the dictates of his own conscience, under the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.  The following statements express the fundamental beliefs to which this church adheres:

A.  We believe the Bible consisting of the Old and New Testament, to be the only inspired, inerrant, infallible, authoritative Word of God written.

B.  We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons:  Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

 

C.  We believe in God the Father Almighty, creator of the universe and all things visible and invisible.

 

D.  We believe in the deity of Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in his ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.

 

E.  We believe that for salvation of lost and sinful man regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential. 

 

F.  We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by Whose indwelling power and fullness the Christian is enabled to live a godly life in this present evil world. 

 

G.  We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation. 

 

H.  We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers in Christ.