Our Mission
Statement
The purpose of the SC Wedding Chapel is to
magnify the Lord Jesus Christ through the
preaching and teaching of God's Word;
To move members toward maturity and
ministry;
And to make Christ known to our neighbors
and to the nations.
"That all the people of the earth may
know..." I Kings 8:60
Doctrinal Statement
Bible: We believe in the Scriptures
of the Old and New Testaments as verbally
inspired by God and inerrant in the original
writings
(and preserved in the English language in
the King James Bible) and that they are of
supreme and final authority in faith and
life.
God: We believe in one God, eternal,
omnipotence, omniscient, omnipresent,
manifesting Himself in three persons -
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - one in
nature, attributes, power and glory.
Jesus Christ: We believe that the Lord Jesus
Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born
of the virgin Mary and that He is true God
and true man.
Holy Spirit: We believe that the Holy
Spirit is a divine Person - the
Administrator of the Godhead - convincing of
sin, revealing Christ, teaching truth,
restraining evil, energizing believers in
prayer, worship and service, and is ever
present in the believer as Comforter and
Helper.
Man: We believe that man was created
in the image of God; that he sinned and
thereby incurred not only physical death but
also that spiritual death which is
separation from God; and that all human
beings are born with a sinful nature, and in
the case of those who reach moral
responsibility become sinners in thought,
word and deed.
Separation: We believe in separation
from all worldly practices and in
whole-hearted devotion to the cause of
Christ as the only scriptural basis for a
happy and useful life.
Justification: We believe that the
Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures as a
representative and substitutionary sacrifice
and rose again for our justification; and
that all who believe in Him are justified on
the ground of His shed blood and are saved
by grace through faith wholly apart from
human merit and works.
Church: We believe that a church of
Christ is a congregation of baptized
believers associated by a covenant of faith
and fellowship of the Gospel, observing the
ordinances of Christ, governed by His laws
and exercising the gifts, rights and
privileges invested in them by the Lord;
that it's officers of ordination are pastors
and deacons, whose qualifications, claims
and duties are clearly defined in the
Scriptures. We believe the true mission of
the church is found in the Great Commission,
to make individual disciples, to build up
the church, and to teach and instruct them
as He has commanded. We do not believe in
the reversal of this order. We hold that the
local church has the absolute right of self
government, free from the interference of
any hierarchy of individuals or
organizations and that the one and only
Superintendent is Christ through the Holy
Spirit. We believe it is scriptural for true
churches to cooperate with each other in
contending for the faith and for the
furtherance of the Gospel. We also believe
it is scriptural that every church is the
sole and only judge of the measure and
method of its cooperation. On all matters of
membership, of policy, of government, of
discipline, of benevolence, the will of the
local church is final.
Ordinances: We believe that Christian
baptism is the immersion in water of a
believer, in the name of the Father, of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost, with the
authority of the local church to show forth
in a solemn and beautiful emblem, our faith
in the crucified, buried, and risen Savior.
That it is a prerequisite to the privilege
of a church relation to the Lord's Supper in
which the members of a church by the sacred
use of unleavened bread and fruit of the
vine are to commemorate together the dying
love of Christ, preceded always by solemn
self-examination.
Tithe and Offering: We believe a
church is to be supported only by the tithes
and offerings of God's people.
