Sandusky Association Articles of Faith
1. We believe that the scriptures comprising the Old and New Testaments as given in what is known as the King James Translation, are of divine authority and are to be taken as the only rule of faith and practice.
2. We believe in one God, and that the Father, Son or Word, and the Holy Ghost are one God, eternal, immutable, infinite in wisdom, power, justice, holiness, mercy and truth.
3. We believe that in the trangression of Adam he fell under the condemnation of God\'s holy law, and that all his posterity were corrupted in him, and so are condemned in sin, and have neither will nor power to deliver themselves from this state and condemnation.
4. We believe that God choose a definite number of particular persons of the fallen posterity of Adam in Christ before the foundation of the world to salvation. The reason for this choice is wholly of grace and is unconditional on the part of the creature.
5. We believe that God has predestined the elect unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ according to the good pleasure of his will.
6. We believe that the Lord Jesus, who was set up from everlasting to be the Mediator between God and men, did in the fullness of time really and true take upon himself a human body and nature, sin excepted, and in that body he suffered, bled and died as the surely of the elect, and in their room and stead, and for no others.
7. We believe that Christ hath obtained eternal redemption for the elect, his life, suffering, blood and death constituting a complete and full atonement for their sins, and that this is the only ground of justification before God.
8. We believe that being born again is not the act of men, nor does it result from what he may believe or do; but it is the work of God, who gives eternal life thus quickening the sinner, which causes him to confess his sin, and to feel the need of a Savior.
9. We believe that none who are born again will fall away so as to be lost, but they will be preserved through grace to glory.
10. We believe in the resurection of the dead, both the just (elect) and the unjust, and that the unjust shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal.
11. We believe that the gospel is to be preached in all world as a statement of the truth, and as a witness of Jesus for the comfort and instruction of regenerated men and woman; but deny that it is to offer grace to the unregenerated or that it asserts there is an obligation resting upon the unregenerated to believe that Jesus is their savior.
12. We believe that good works, obedience to the commands of God, are well pleasing in his site, and should be maintained in the shurch, but they are to be considered only as evidence of a gracious state, and are not a condition of salvation.
13. We believe that baptism and the Lord\'s Supper are ordinances appointed by Christ for the church, and they are to be administered only by those who are clothed with authority of the church, having been reguraly ordained.
14. We believe that baptism is by immersion in water and is to be administered to believers only, and who give evedence of have regenerated.
15. We believe that the Lord\'s Supper should be observed in the church until the comming of Jesus at the end of the world, and that unleavened bread and wine should be used, of which none are to invited to partake but members of the church and of other churches of like faith and order.
16. We believe that those who give proof that they are called of God to the ministry, by edifying the church in that exercise, should be ordained by a presbytery and set apart to that work
17. We believe that the church should choose members of its body who have the proper qualifications for the office of deacon who are to receive and disburse the funds of the
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