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DICKSON CITY PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH
WHERE THE WORD OF GOD IS PREACHED AND JESUS CHRIST IS DECLARED LORD!
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Located at the corner of
LINCOLN AND JACKSON STREETS
(1 block off Main St.)
DICKSON CITY, PA 18519
JAMES JOHNSON
PASTOR
570-489-3452
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DOCTRINES
We believe the Bible teaches the following doctrines:
THE TRIUNE GOD
We believe that God exists in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, three persons, one God. We believe He is self-existent, infinite, personal, unchangeable and eternal in His being. He is perfect in holiness, love, justice, goodness, wisdom and truth. He is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. He is the Creator and Sustainer of all things, visible and invisible.
THE DEITY OF JESUS CHRIST
We believe in the Deity of Jesus Christ; in His eternity; in His incarnation by the virgin birth; thus uniting perfect man and perfect God in one body. We believe also in His sinless life; in His vicarious death; and bodily resurrection from the dead; in His ascension to the right hand of the Father. We further believe in His present ministry of advocacy; and His coming again in power and glory.
THE DEITY AND PERSONALITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
We believe the Holy Spirit to be the Third person of the blessed Trinity. He is eternally God. His office work is to reprove the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. We believe the Holy Spirit to be a Person, Who regenerates, sanctifies, empowers, teaches, guides, and comforts. He is at work in the world as a witness to Christ, as the builder of the Church, and as the indweller of the brethren.
MAN
We believe that man was created by the direct act of God, in His image, possessing personality and the right of choice. In his original state man enjoyed fellowship with God. We further believe that man chose not to remain in the happy state in which God created him; being tempted by Satan, he became disobedient, and incurred upon himself and his posterity the sentence that sin deserved. We further believe that man in his natural state cannot please God.
REDEMPTION
We believe that God has provided redemption for all men through the death of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross. We further believe that since man cannot save himself, God has provided the perfect offering for sin in Christ. We believe that man is justified in the sight of God by faith, and that true, genuine faith produces regeneration, also called the new birth. We further believe that godly sorrow for sin (repentance) will produce reformation of character.
SANCTIFICATION
We believe that sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in the heart, setting apart or consecrating for a task, producing holiness in the life.
THE SECOND COMING
We believe that Jesus Christ will come again to the earth to reign. We believe that it will be premillennial, visible and redemptive. This is the great source of motivation for purification, and inspiration for Christian service.
THE JUDGMENTS
We believe in the resurrection of the bodies of both the just and the unjust; the just to the seat of Christ for the reward of works, and entrance into heaven, and the unbeliever to the Great White Throne for judgment of sin and banishment from the presence of God forever (hell).
THE CHURCH
We believe the church to be instituted of God. It is the body of which Christ is the Head. It is composed of believers by faith in Christ as Savior, irrespective of race or color.
The Primitive Methodist Church is a congregation of believers joined together for mutual fellowship, and the worship of God.
This information was taken from the "Discipline of the Primitive Methodist Church in the United States of America" 1962 and 1990 Editions, and "What I Should Know - The Membership Manual for the Primitive Methodist Church", compiiled by Rev. George Kropp and Rev. Tim Young
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