SEAMIST Doctrinal Statement
WE BELIEVE, WITHOUT APOLOGY, THE FOLLOWING:
The Bible is the infallible Word of God. The Bible
is the supreme and final authority in all matters of
faith and conduct. The Bible is God's complete
revelation to man; any spiritual revelation which adds
to, or is contrary to, the revelation of the Bible is to
be rejected.
There is only one true God. He eternally exists
in three persons as God, the Father; God, the Son; and
God, the Holy Spirit.
Jesus Christ, God, the Son, is the world's only
savior. We acknowledge His pre-existence, His
incarnation, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His
vicarious death, His physical burial, and His bodily
resurrection. We believe Jesus Christ will return in a
personal and visible form before the millennium of His
reign on earth.
God, the Holy Spirit, convicts each person of his
sin and regenerates, indwells, and empowers every person
who has acknowledged Jesus Christ to be the Son of God,
to be his only means of salvation and to be the Lord of
his life. We believe the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is a
blessed and individual experience for the Christian,
apart from and in addition to, regeneration. The
Baptism of the Holy Spirit should be diligently
sought and obtained as the necessary endowment with
power for
effective service in the kingdom of God; the Baptism of
the Holy Spirit can occur simultaneously with or
subsequent to receiving salvation.
All men are born sinful and lost to the kingdom of God
and His fellowship. Salvation of the individual occurs
by the grace of God through the individual's faith
in the atoning power of the shed blood of Jesus Christ.
Deliberate, willful disobedience to the revealed will of
God brings any person, regardless of his prior
experience, under God's judgment, which can only
be removed through confession, repentance, restitution,
and cleansing in the blood of Jesus Christ.
The Church is comprised of every individual who
has accepted the redemption provided by Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ will return to earth to receive the Church
as His bride.
Christians are expected to have a disciplined
lifestyle separated from worldliness and to make
personal sacrifices for the sake of God's kingdom. The
Christian shall submit himself to the personal
discipline of a disciple of Jesus Christ and will fully
surrender himself to the will of God for his life.
Faithful and total commitment to the disciplined
Christian life is made possible only through the
indwelling of Jesus Christ and by His Holy Spirit in the
life of every Christian who has been born again.
Water baptism by immersion and the Lord's
Supper are the ordinances to be practiced by
Christians in accordance with the Word of God as
revealed through the Bible.
