About Decatur Bible Chapel - Doctrinal Statements of Faith
The Scriptures
We believe that both the Old and New Testament are verbally inspired by God and without error in the original writings. We therefore hold the Bible to be the absolute, sole and final authority in all matters relating to doctrine, practice, faith, life and prophecy. II Timothy 3:16, II Peter 1:20-21
GOD
We believe that there is only one true and living God existing in three persons - Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, and that these three are ONE GOD, having precisely the same nature and attributes, power and glory. Matthew 3:16, Matthew 28:19
Jesus Christ
We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary and shed His blood on Calvary as a vicarious substitute. He was buried, rose again bodily and ascended to God the Father according to the scriptures. Matthew 1:18-25, John 1:14, I Corinthians 15:3-4, Hebrews 4:14-15
The Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit is a Person. He is God and is co-existent with the Father and the Son. He convicts men of sin, righteousness and judgment. He regenerates, seals, permanently indwells all believers and baptizes them into the body of Christ. John 14:17, John 16:7-10, Eph. 1:13-14, I Corinthians 12:12-14
Man
We believe that man was created innocent by God. Adam, the first man, sinned by disobedience, and this act resulted in the fall of mankind and incurred both physical and spiritual death for all. Man now possesses an utterly depraved nature. Through the death of Jesus Christ on the Cross, man can have new life and live in eternal fellowship with God. John 3:16; Romans 3:10, 23; Romans 5:121
The Church
We believe that the Church is composed of all believers in the Lord, Jesus Christ, Who is the head of the Church. Ephesians 4:1-6 We believe that Jesus Christ will come in the air and that all believers, both dead and alive, will be translated to meet him there. We also believe that at the end of the seven-year tribulation, Christ will literally and visibly descend from Heaven with the Saints to establish His millennial Kingdom on earth. I Thessalonians. 4:13-18, Rev. 20-5,6.
The Second Coming Of Christ
We believe that Jesus Christ will come in the air and that all believers, both dead and alive, will be translated to meet him there. We also believe that at the end of the seven-year tribulation, Christ will literally and visibly descend from Heaven with the Saints to establish His millennial Kingdom on earth. I Thessalonians. 4:13-18, Rev. 20-5,6
All components also are used in the administrator area of your website. In addition to the ones listed here, there are components in the administrator that do not have direct front end displays, but do help shape your site. The most important ones for most users are
- Media Manager
- Extensions Manager
- Menu Manager
- Global Configuration
- Banners
- Redirect
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Media Manager
The media manager component lets you upload and insert images into content throughout your site. Optionally, you can enable the flash uploader which will allow you to to upload multiple images. Help
Extensions Manager
The extensions manager lets you install, update, uninstall and manage all of your extensions. The extensions manager has been extensively redesigned for Joomla! 1.6, although the core install and uninstall functionality remains the same as in Joomla 1.5. Help
Menu Manager
The menu manager lets you create the menus you see displayed on your site. It also allows you to assign modules and template styles to specific menu links. Help
Global Configuration
The global configuration is where the site administrator configures things such as whether search engine friendly urls are enabled, the site meta data (descriptive text used by search engines an indexers) and other functions. For many beginning users simply leaving the settings on default is a good way to begin, although when your site is ready for the public you will want to change the meta data to match its content. Help
Banners
The banners component provides a simple way to display a rotating image in a module and, if you wish to have advertising, a way to track the number of times an image is viewed and clicked. Help
Redirect
The redirect component is used to manage broken links that produce Page Not Found (404) errors. If enabled it will allow you to redirect broken links to specific pages. It can also be used to manage migration related URL changes. Help
This module shows a list of the calendar months containing archived articles. After you have changed the status of an article to archived, this list will be automatically generated. Help
This module displays a list of categories from one parent category. Help
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This module allows you to display the articles in a specific category. Help
