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Statement Of Faith

Our Statement of Faith

  1. We hold the Bible as the complete and unique divine revelation. We believe it is the inspired Word of God, God breathed, and is infallible.

  2. We believe that God is eternally one and also eternally three, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, i.e. the Triune God. We believe that three of the Trinity are distinct but not separate.

  3. We hold that Christ is both the complete God and the perfect man. Without abandoning His divinity, He was conceived in the womb of a human virgin, lived a genuine human life on earth, and died a vicarious and all-inclusive death on the cross. After three days He resurrected bodily and ascended to the heavens. He is now in glory, fully God but still fully man. He will physically return from the heavens with the kingdom of God, and He will reign over the earth in the millennium and in eternity.

  4. We believe that mankind is in need of God's salvation and we, as fallen sinners, can not fulfill the demands of God's righteousness, holiness, and glory. We believe that Jesus Christ fulfilled all these requirements through His perfect life and His death on the cross. We believe that anyone who through repentance and personal faith in Jesus Christ comes to God will be eternally saved (by faith and not by works). We believe that because of Christ's death, and through our faith, God has forgiven us of our sins, reconciled us to Himself and justified us. Based on Christ's redemption, God also regenerates the redeemed with His Spirit that they may become His children, possessing God's life and nature. We believe that this is an eternal salvation and that in eternity we will dwell with God in the New Jerusalem.

Our Perspective on the Bible

In coming to the truth of the Bible, we are guided primarily by three things.

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First, we understand that there is a single economy of God to be seen throughout the Bible. This economy centers on God's dispensing Himself through His Trinity into His elect. In the Old Testament this economy is seen in many types, shadows, and figures. In the New Testament this economy is presented in the clear words of the apostles. While based on the merits of Christ's person and on His work in accomplishing our redemption judicially, God's New Testament economy has the fuller goal of saving man organically, that is, by and with the eternal life of the Triune God. By this life God's elect are genuinely begotten of God, transformed, and finally glorified. The consummation of this economy is the union of God and man for eternity in the New Jerusalem.

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Second, the centrality of God's economy in our understanding of the Bible is based upon the assumption that God can be known and experienced subjectively, not just worshipped and appreciated objectively. God does not intend to remain aloof from mankind in general nor from each of His believers in particular; rather, as evidenced by His incarnation and by His coming as the Spirit, He desires to be intimately and personally related to His elect. The long history of Christian spirituality, though sometimes troubled by excesses, is fundamentally correct in its desire to know and experience God.

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Finally, we believe that the divine message of the Bible may transcend the intention of its human writers. Holding to the long-standing hermeneutical tradition of the Christian church, we accept the allegorical method for understanding the Bible, particularly its Old Testament, as a valid principle of interpretation.

Our Belief

  • We believe that the Holy Bible is the complete divine revelation verbally inspired by the Holy Spirit.

  • We believe that God is the only one Triune God—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit – co-existing equally from eternity to eternity.

  • We believe that the Son of God, even God Himself, became incarnated to be a man by the name of Jesus, born of the virgin Mary, that He might be our Redeemer and Savior.

  • We believe that Jesus, a genuine man, lived on this earth for thirty-three and a half years to make God the Father known to men.

  • We believe that Jesus, the Christ anointed by God with His Holy Spirit, died on the cross for our sins and shed His blood for the accomplishment of our redemption.

  • We believe that Jesus Christ, after being buried for three days, resurrected from the dead physically and spiritually and that, in resurrection, He has become the life-giving spirit to impart Himself into us as our life and our everything.

  • We believe that after His resurrection Christ ascended to the heavens and that God has made Him the Lord of all.

  • We believe that after His ascension Christ poured down the Spirit of God to baptize His chosen members into one Body and that the Spirit of God, who is also the Spirit of Christ, is moving on this earth today to convict sinners, to regenerate God's chosen people, to dwell in the members of Christ for their growth in life, and to build up the Body of Christ for His full expression.

  • We believe that at the end of this age Christ will come back to take up His members, to judge the world, to take possession of the earth, and to establish His eternal kingdom.

  • We believe that the overcoming saints will reign with Christ in the millennium and that all the believers in Christ will participate in the divine blessings in the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth for eternity.

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