ABOUT US
Welcome to C.E.B.C. We are a small group of believers inside of the greater Body of Christ located in Cottageville, WV desiring to be used of God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ to bring honor and glory to His holy and precious name.
We are a group of sinners that have been saved through the Grace of God by believing and trusting in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior!
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We do not view the local church as a shrine for saints, but more a hospital for sinners!
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John 13:35 “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”
OUR MISSION
1- Point all people to the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
2- Provoke the Church to love God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength.
3- Prove God’s love to all people in deed and truth.
1- Spread the blessed gospel of Jesus Christ.
2- Disciple the believer.
3- Restore, exhort and edify our fellow Christians.
4- Embrace the Joy of our salvation.
Romans 10:13
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
BASIC BELIEFS
The following provides just a simple outline of what we believe.
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1- Scripture. The Holy Bible is the inspired, inerrant, infallible and preserved Word of God. It is pure and perfect, and the supreme and final authority in all matters pertaining to life and Godliness. We choose to use the King James Version but will not condemn or argue with those who do not.
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2- God. There is only one true God. He exists eternally as three persons — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — each fully God yet each personally distinct from the other. God is the creator of everything. Glorifying Him is primary.
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3- Sin. Everyone, regardless of race, gender, social class, or intellectual ability, was created in God’s image and for communion with God. But because of sin, that communion was broken and all of humanity was separated from God, the source of all life. Because of the fall, everyone deserves God’s just and righteous judgment.
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4- Salvation. Jesus Christ is the only Way, the Truth, and the Life, and God freely gives His gift of salvation to anyone who believes in Him. Salvation cannot be earned through personal goodness or human effort. It is a gift that is received by repentance and faith in Christ and his death on the cross and resurrection from the grave.
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5- Christ. Jesus Christ, the second Person of the Trinity, was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary — he was God in human flesh. He lived a sinless human life, yet willingly took upon himself our sins by dying in our place and on our behalf. He rose bodily, victorious over death. He ascended to Heaven and is at the right hand of the Father as the believer’s advocate and mediator. His earthly return is soon coming!
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6- Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Trinity, convicts the world of sin and gives new life to those who trust in Jesus. He indwells all believers and empowers them to lead Christ-like lives. The Spirit gives them spiritual gifts with which to serve fellow believers and reach out to a lost and needy world.
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7- Church. The church is not a building with a steeple called the “house of God”. It is a born again people group indwelt by the Holy Spirit. All genuine believers are members of the Body of Christ, or the “church”. The local church is a group of believers who gather regularly wherever God provides a place to do so for the purpose of exalting Christ, through the Spirit, to the Glory of God the Father and the edification of His people. Brotherly love is to be expressed among all born again believers by acceptance and love of one another across all ethnic, cultural, socio-economic, national, generational, gender, and denominational lines.