About

Purpose

The purpose of MCBC is to promote the evangelism of lost men everywhere, the fellowship of believers in the worship and praise of God, the spiritual growth of the church family, and the testimony of God’s grace in righteous and separate living.

Beliefs

Following is a short summary of what we preach and teach at Medora Community Bible Church. For a more detailed look at our beliefs, we encourage you to look at our Constitution which includes our Statement of Faith. Our Constitution will give you a more thorough understanding of what we believe and practice.

  1. We believe in the verbal and plenary inspiration of the Scriptures, consisting of 66 books which constitute the Old and New Testaments, the Word of God, inerrant in the original writings, the complete and unalterable special revelation of God, and our final authority.  We believe in the normal, literal, and consistent interpretation of the Scriptures; and a dispensational understanding of God’s progressive revelation.
  2. We believe in one Triune God, eternally existing in three persons — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — co-eternal in being, co-identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections.
  3. We believe the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man, without ceasing to be God, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, and lived a sinless life.  He came that He might reveal God and redeem sinful man.
  4. We believe the Holy Spirit is the person of the Godhead who in this present age convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment; who regenerates and baptizes into the body of Christ those who believe; and who indwells and seals them unto the day of redemption.
  5. We believe man was created in the image and likeness of God; in Adam’s sins the race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God; and man is totally depraved and unable to remedy his lost condition.
  6. We believe the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice for all people.  All who trust Him are saved by grace through faith on the basis of His shed blood, accepted in the beloved, kept by God’s power, and thus secure in Christ forever.
  7. We believe the Church, which began with the baptizing work of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, is the body and bride of Christ.  It is the spiritual organism made up of all born-again persons of the present age.
  8. We believe the establishment and continuance of local churches is clearly taught and defined in the New Testament Scriptures.
  9. We believe that Christ commissioned individuals in the church to make disciples from among all nations, to baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and to teach them to observe all things whatsoever He has commanded.
  10. We believe the Lord Jesus Christ established two ordinances for the Church in this present age.  These are believer’s water baptism, practiced by immersion, and the Lord’s supper, observed as a memorial of His death.
  11. We believe the Scriptures interpreted in their natural, literal sense reveal divinely determined dispensations which define man’s responsibility in successive ages.  A dispensation is not a way of salvation, but a divinely ordered stewardship by which God directs man according to His purpose. We believe salvation is always by grace through faith regardless of the dispensation in which the believer may have lived.  God’s purpose of salvation by grace through faith alone has always been based upon the substitutionary atonement of our Lord Jesus Christ upon the cross.
  12. We believe Satan is a created being, the author of sin, the tempter in the fall, the declared enemy of God and man, and the god of this age.  He will be eternally punished in the lake of fire.
  13. We believe in the personal, imminent, pretribulational and premillennial coming of the Lord Jesus Christ for His redeemed ones.  We believe that at the end of the seven year tribulation He will return to earth with the saints in power and glory to reign for a thousand years.
  14. We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment. We believe the souls of the redeemed are, at death, absent from the body and present with the Lord, where in conscious bliss they await the first resurrection, when spirit, soul, and body are reunited and glorified to be forever with the Lord. We believe the souls of unbelievers are, at death, absent from the body and in conscious misery until the second resurrection, when with soul and body reunited they shall appear at the Great White Throne Judgment and shall be cast into the lake of fire, not to be annihilated, but to suffer everlasting conscious punishment.
  15. We believe the triune God, by a free act and for His own glory, without the use of existing materials or secondary causes, brought into being — immediately and instantaneously in six literal days by the word of His mouth — the whole visible and invisible universe.
  16. We believe the saved should be separated unto the Lord Jesus Christ, necessitating holy living in all personal and ecclesiastical associations and relationships.
  17. We believe that the only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one woman.We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of marriage between a man and a woman.We believe that any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, bestiality, incest, pedophilia, fornication, adultery, pornography, etc. are sinful perversions of God’s gift of sex.  We believe that God disapproves of and forbids any attempt to alter one’s gender by surgery or appearance.