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Statement of Faith

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STATEMENT OF FAITH – WHAT WE BELIEVE

Summary of Beliefs:

    • There is one God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
    • God the Father made all things through the Son, sent the Son for our salvation, and gives us the Holy Spirit.
    • The Son of God, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, was born of the virgin Mary, fully God and fully human, and is the perfect revelation of the Father and the perfect representative of humanity. He suffered and died on the cross for all human sin, was raised bodily on the third day, and ascended to heaven. Standing in for all humanity before the Father, Jesus Christ provides the perfect human response to God. Since he died for all, all died in him, and all will be made alive in him.
    • The Holy Spirit brings sinners to repentance and faith, assures believers of their forgiveness and acceptance as God’s dearly loved children, and works in them to conform them to the image of Jesus Christ.
    • The Bible is the inspired and infallible Word of God that testifies to Jesus Christ. The Bible is fully authoritative for all matters of faith and salvation.
    • Salvation comes only by God’s grace and not by works, and it is experienced through faith in Jesus Christ. Christians respond to the joy of salvation when they gather in regular fellowship and live godly lives in Jesus Christ.
    • We look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the age to come.

 

 

Basic tenets of Incarnational Trinitarian theology:

We believe that theology should be rooted in the Bible, especially the New Testament. We see a reliable theology articulated by Irenaeus, Athanasius, Gregory Nazianzus, and more recently, Karl Barth, Thomas F. Torrance, and many others. Our teachings include:

    • The Triune God created all people through the Son of God, who also is known as the Word of God.
    • We were created so that we could participate in the love relationship enjoyed by the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
    • We are enabled and qualified to participate in this relationship of love through Jesus Christ.
    • The Son became human, the man Jesus Christ, taking on our human nature.
    • He did this to reconcile all humanity to God through his birth, life, death, resurrection and ascension.
    • The crucified, resurrected and glorified Jesus is the representative and the substitute for all humanity.
    • As Savior and Lord of all humanity, Jesus now sits at the right hand of the Father, and he draws all people to himself by the power of the Holy Spirit.
    • In Christ, humanity is loved and accepted by the Father.
    • Jesus Christ paid for all our sins—past, present and future—and there is no longer any debt to pay.
    • The Father has in Christ forgiven all our sins, and he eagerly desires that we receive his forgiveness.
    • We can enjoy his love only as we believe/trust that he loves us. We can enjoy his forgiveness only when we believe/trust he has forgiven us.
    • When we respond to the Spirit by turning to God, believing the good news and picking up our cross and following Jesus, the Spirit leads us into the transformed life of the kingdom of God.