My Statement of Faith

I believe the Bible to be the written revelation of God, complete and sufficient in all respects. I believe the Scriptures to be "God-breathed" and therefore fully authoritative in and of themselves; they rely for their authority upon no church, council, or creed, but are authoritative simply because they are the Word of God. The Scriptures, as they embody the very speaking of God, partake of His authority, His power.

I believe in one true and eternal God, unchanging, unchangeable. I believe God is the Creator of all that exists in heaven and in earth. The God who is described in the Bible is unique; He is unlike anyone or anything else in all the universe. God has all power, all knowledge, all wisdom, and is due all glory, honor and praise. All that comes to pass does so at the decree of God. All things will, in the end, result in the glory of God.

I believe the Bible teaches that there is but one being of God, yet there are three Persons who share this one being of God: the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. Each Person is fully and completely God, each is described in Scripture as possessing the attributes of God. The Father, Son, and Spirit have eternally existed in the relationship described by the term "Trinity."

I believe that man was created in the image of God but fell through sin, bringing not only physical death but also spiritual death - separation from God. Now all mankind is totally depraved, having inherited a sinful nature, is bent toward sinning, and has become sinful in thought,word, and deed; man is totally unwilling and indeed incapable of seeking after God.

I believe that God the Father in His love sent His Son,the Lord Jesus Christ who suffered and died as a substitutionary sacrifice for the sins of the whole world.

I believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, His ongoing work of intercession as our Great High Priest, and in His personal return in power and glory.

No other work can provide for forgiveness of sins, and no addition can be made to the completed and finished work of Christ.

I believe that God, in His sovereign grace and mercy, regenerates sinful men by the power of the Holy Spirit, not by any action of their own, bringing them to new life. God grants to them the gifts of faith and repentance, which they then exercise by believing in Christ and turning from their sins in love for God. As a result of this faith, based upon the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ, God justifies or makes righteous the one who believes.

God's gift of faith, and the continuing work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of believers, results in good works. These good works flow from true, saving faith; they are a necessary result of faith, but are not to be considered necessary to the gaining of justification, which is by God's grace through faith alone, so that no man can boast.

I believe that once a person is saved, he is saved forever, as the Bible says he has eternal life. Nothing can cancel the fact that a person is saved. Only those who are genuinely saved have this security. Eternal security is no license to sin and live in disobedience to God. Saved people are subject to the discipline of God through chastisement.

I believe that all who believe in Christ are placed in His body, the Church.The local church is a group of believers baptised by water, banded together for edification, exhortation, and evangelism as commanded by Christ in the Great Commission: preaching the gospel to every creature.This local expression of the Church is very important, and each believer should be actively involved in such a fellowship and be odedient to His Word as found in the Bible.

I believe that the Lord Jesus Christ Himself is coming again in the air at any moment to catch up His Church and to reward their service; the unbelievers left behind will go through a seven year period called the Tribulation, after which Christ shall return visibly to the earth to set up His Kingdom of one thousand years of righteousness from (literal) Jerusalem.

After this, the unbelievers of all ages will stand at the Great White Throne to be judged and cast into the Lake of Fire, separated from God forever; while the believers spend eternity in the fullness of joy in Heaven with the Lord.

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