The following truths are held common in agreement by the administration and staff of the School of Ministry.
§ We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God, a revelation from God to man: The inspired, infallible inerrant rule of faith and conduct and is superior to conscience and reason; but not contrary to reason.
§ We believe the one true God has revealed Himself as the eternally, self-existent, self-revealed, "I Am," and has further revealed Himself as embodying the principles of relationship and association as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
§ We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus 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.
§ We believe that man was created good and upright. God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." But man by voluntary transgression fell and his only hope of redemption is in Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God.
§ We believe the grace of God, which brings salvation, has appeared to all men, through the preaching of repentance toward God and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ; man is saved by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, and being justified by grace through faith, he becomes an heir of God according to the hope of eternal life. We further believe that the inward evidence, to the believer of his salvation, is the direct witness of the Spirit and that the outward evidence to all men is a life of righteousness and true holiness.
§ We believe the ordinance of baptism by burial with Christ should be observed as commanded in the scriptures, by all who have really repented and in their hearts they have truly believed on Christ as Savior and Lord. They declare to the world that they have been crucified with Christ and they have been raised with Him to walk in newness of life.
§ We believe the Lord's Supper, consisting of the elements of bread and fruit of the vine, is the symbol expressing our sharing the divine nature of our Lord Jesus Christ; a memorial of his suffering and death; a prophecy of His coming; and is enjoined on all believers until He comes.
§ We believe that all believers are entitled to, and should ardently expect, and earnestly seek, the promise of the Father, the baptism in the Holy Ghost and fire, according to the command of the Lord Jesus Christ. This was the normal experience of all in the early Christian Church. With it comes the endowment of power for life and service, the bestowment of gifts and their uses in the world of ministry. This wonderful experience is distinct from and subsequent to the experience of the New Birth.
§ We believe that the baptism of believers in the Holy Ghost is witnessed by the physical sign of speaking in other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance. The speaking in tongues in this instance is the same in essence as the gift of tongues, but different in purpose and use.
§ The Scriptures teach a life of holiness. By the power of the Holy Ghost we are able to obey the command "Be ye holy, for I am holy." Sanctification is the will of God for all believers and should be earnestly pursued by walking in obedience to God's work.
§ We believe that the church is the Body of Christ, the habitation of God through the Spirit, with divine appointment for the fulfillment of the Great Commission. Each believer, born of the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in Heaven. Jesus Christ is the head of His church. He is the foundation, the founder and the builder of the church. The local church should be the general church in microcosm.
§ We believe a divinely-called and Scripturally-ordained ministry has been provided by our Lord for a two fold purpose: the evangelism of the world and the edifying of the Body of Christ.
§ We believe that deliverance from sickness is provided for in the atonement, and is the privilege of all believers.
§ We believe that the resurrection of those who have died in Christ and their translation with those who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord is the blessed hope of the church.
§ We believe that the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ from Heaven, the salvation of Israel, and the millennial reign of Christ on earth is the Scriptural promise and the world's hope.
§ We believe that the devil and his angels, the beast and the false prophet, and whosoever’s name is not found written in the Book of Life, shall be consigned to everlasting punishment in the lake of fire, which burns with fire and brimstone and is the second death.
§ We believe that we, according to His promise, “look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwells righteousness.”
