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| | First Calvary Baptist Church - Doctrinal Statement |
 | | We believe the Holy Scriptures, consisting of the Old and New Testaments only, to be the plenarily, verbally inspired Word of God, inerrant in the original manuscripts, authoritative, infallible, and God-breathed; and that they are the only supreme and ultimate authority for faith and practice: (II Tim. |
 | | We believe that certain of the spiritual gifts of the Holy Spirit to the Church such as apostleship, prophecy, and tongues were temporary; needed only in the infancy of the church and are not to be expected today. |
 | | We believe that the local church is a visible expression of the Body of Christ and is a congregation of believers in Jesus Christ, immersed upon a credible confession of faith, and associated together by covenant for worship, exhortation, evangelism, the observance of the ordinances, and fellowship. |
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