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WE BELIEVE: 1. In the one and only true holy, loving, almighty and gracious God, the creator of heaven and earth who exist in three-person unity. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
2. That Jesus Christ was made flesh by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary fully God and fully human is Lord and Savior of humankind. 3. That Jesus Christ came to Israel inaugurated the Kingdom of God suffered and died on the cross for human sin that he was raised bodily on the third day and as God-man ascended to heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father. 4. That Jesus Christ will come again powerfully to judge the living and the dead to establish the Kingdom of God fully over all that was, that is and that is to come. 5. In the Holy Spirit, who came from the Father and Son to bring sinners to repentance, who gives eternal life to believers and who lives in them to conform them by the exercising all of the Spirit’s gifts to the image of Jesus Christ. 6. That the old and new Testament scriptures are the inspired and infallible Word of God wholly authoritative for all issues of faith and practice. 7. That Christians should gather in regular fellowship as a worshipping community and live lives of faith that make real the Good news that humans enter the Kingdom of God by putting their trust in Jesus Christ. 8. In the spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. 9. That salvation comes not by works but only by God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ. 10. In the bodily resurrection of the saved and unsaved the glorious eternal productivity of the saved and the complete punishment of the unsaved. |