WE believe that the Holy Spirit is a divine person, coequal with God the Father and God the Son and of the same nature; the He was active in the creation; that in His relation to the unbelieving world He restrains the evil one until God’s purpose in fulfilled; that He convicts of sin, of righteousness and of judgment, that He bears witness to the truth of the Gospel in preaching and testimony, that He is the agent of the new birth; that He seals, indwells, fills, guides, teaches, witnesses, sanctifies and helps the believer.
Genesis 1: 1-3; Matthew 28: 18; John 3: 5-6; 16: 17, 26; Ephesians 1: 13- 14; II Thessalonians 2: 17
We believe that the fruit of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance) is evidence of His indwelling and that “sign-gifts,” such as speaking in tongues and healing, were temporary in nature, necessary only until the Scriptures were completed. We do believe in Divine healing but not “divine healers.”
Galatians 5: 22-23; I Corinthians 13: 8-11; 14: 22-24