S.E.A. Statement of Faith

WE BELIEVE  the Bible, Old and New Testaments, to be the inspired, infallible, authoritative, and inerrant Word of God.   WE BELIEVE  there is one God, eternally existing in three distinct persons: the Father, Son   and Holy Spirit.   WE BELIEVE  in the deity of Jesus Christ, that he was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, provided for the atonement of our sins by His substitutionary death on the cross, was bodily raised from the dead, ascended back to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal and visible second coming to earth with his saints to set up a kingdom of which there will be no end.     WE BELIEVE  that for the salvation of lost and sinful humanity, repentance from sin and acceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior is the only way to come into a relationship with God.   WE BELIEVE  in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit and by Whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.   WE BELIEVE  in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost: those who are saved unto the resurrection of life, and those who are not unto the resurrection of damnation.   WE BELIEVE  that we as Christians are examples of the love of God in this world.  It is this (agape) love that we desire to possess and without which we have no right to call ourselves Christians.