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 Church of Lancaster County
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Physical Address: 2015 North Reading Road, Denver, PA 17517
Mailing Address: 1069 Red Run Road, Stevens, PA 17578

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Summary Statement of Faith
The following is an inexhaustive summary statement of our beliefs.
  1. We believe in and teach the absolute authority and divine verbal inspiration of the Old and New Testaments as the Word of God.


  2. We believe and teach that there is but one living and true God; and that in the Godhead, there are three persons, equal in power and glory, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.


  3. We believe in and teach the eternal Sonship, virgin birth, and deity of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.


  4. We believe and teach that man was originally made with a perfect righteousness before God, but that since the fall man is depraved in every aspect of his being. As such, natural man has absolutely no ability to repent of sin or come to Christ in faith.


  5. We believe and teach that salvation is wholly a work of God in which God performs the following for those he has sovereignly elected from before all time:


    • He convicts the sinner of his sinful and miserable estate which arises solely out of the sinner's willful offense against God and his holy Law;
    • He enlightens the heart and mind of the sinner in a true Biblical knowledge of Jesus Christ's person and work;
    • He renews the will of the sinner giving him an immediate and irresistible ability to come to God in repentance and faith;
    • He preserves the redeemed sinner in the state of salvation through all eternity and, in time, brings the redeemed sinner to be with him forever in Heaven.


  6. We believe and teach that all sinners who are not brought to salvation through faith stand eternally condemned before God for their sin and that all such eternally condemned souls will exist eternally tormented in a real place called Hell.


  7. We believe and teach that though salvation is wholly the work of God, it has pleased our Lord to use redeemed sinners to preach his Gospel to a lost world. We believe that evangelism is an important part of the obedient Christian's faith.


  8. We believe in and teach the true Biblical personality of God the Holy Spirit, and the absolute necessity of his work in regeneration and sanctification, and his infilling of the indwelt believer for power to live and witness for Christ. We reject contemporary charismatic errors.


  9. We hold to and teach the substitutionary death of the Lord Jesus Christ and his resurrection as the only way of salvation through faith.


  10. We believe and teach that God has appointed besides the Word and prayer the ordinances of believer's baptism and the Lord's Supper.


  11. We believe in and teach the spiritual unity of all believers in Jesus Christ and we cherish every scriptural expression of that unity. However, we reject the unscriptural attempts at church union by such organizations as the World Council of Churches and Evangelicals and Catholics Together.


  12. We believe in and teach the visible and personal return of our Lord Jesus Christ at a time which no man can now know.


  13. We believe and teach that salvation is by faith alone in Christ alone without the addition of human works.