Manor Gospel Church
Doctrinal Statement


We believe in the complete plenary and verbal inspiration and the supreme
and the final authority of the Old and New Testament Scriptures.  
(2 Peter 1:21; 2 Timothy 3:16-17)

We believe in one God, eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  
(Deuteronomy 6:4; Luke 3:21-22; John 1:1; 1 John 5:7)

We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Holy Ghost and was born of the virgin
Mary, and is true God and true man. (Matthew 1:20-23; Luke 1:35; John 1:14)

We believe in the personality of Satan and other evil spirit beings as the enemies of God,
the saints, and the holy angels. (2 Corinthians 11:14-15; Job 1:6-12; James 4:7)

We believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned, and thereby
incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death; and that all human beings are
born with a sinful nature, and are incapable of pleasing God, and in the case of those
who reach moral responsibility, become capable sinners, utterly lost, and that only
through regeneration by the Holy Spirit can salvation and spiritual life be obtained.
(Romans 5:12; Romans 8:5-8; Ephesians 2:2-3)

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, as
the representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that no other manner of redemption
is possible, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood.
(1 Corinthians 15:1-4; Romans 5; 2 Corinthians 5:14-21; Acts 4:12)

We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension into
heaven, and in His personal bodily presence there for us as forerunner, High Priest, and
Advocate. (John 20:19-28; Acts 1; Luke 24; Hebrews 2:14-18)

We believe in that blessed hope, the personal, bodily, visible, pre-millennial, and
imminent return of our glorified Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (Acts 1:11; Titus 2:11-
14; John 14:1-3)

We believe that the church’s sole business, with no worldly alliances, is to shed the light
of the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ continuously in all the world, looking for her
Lord’s return.  (Matthew 28:18-19; Luke 19:15; Mark 16:14-20; 2 Corinthians 10:13-16)

We believe that all who by faith receive the Lord Jesus Christ as personal Savior are
born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God. (John 1:12-13; 1
Peter 1:18-23; John 5:24)

We believe that the fullness of the Holy Spirit is received by faith and obedience, and
that sanctification is progressive as well as instantaneous, producing daily growth in
grace following the one experience of the new birth. (Luke 11:11-13; 2 Corinthians 6:12-
7:1; Jude 20-22)

We believe that at death, all men continue in conscious existence, awaiting the bodily
resurrection of the just and unjust; the saved to everlasting blessedness and the lost to
everlasting conscious torment.  (Luke 16:14-31; John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:12-15)

We believe that the true Church is composed of all such persons who through saving
faith in Jesus Christ have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit and are thus united
together in the body of Christ, of which He is the head.  (Ephesians 4:1-16; 1
Corinthians 12:12-27)

We believe that the Lord’s Supper and water baptism are ordinances to be observed by
the Church during this present age.  They are, however, not to be regarded as means of
salvation. (1 Corinthians 11:25-26; 1 Peter 3:21)