God is the Creator and Ruler of the Universe.
The God of the Bible is the One God. He has eternally existed in three personalities: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. These three are co-equal and are one God.
(Genesis 1:1; Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 3:22; Psalms 90:2; Matthew 28:19; 1 Peter 1:2; 1 Corinthians 13:14)
Jesus Christ is the one and only Son of God.
Co-equal with the Father and God the Spirit. He came to earth and became man. He was completely God while at the same time being fully man. He revealed to us who God is. His miraculous acts, sinless life and life changing teaching all confirm the fact that He is God's Son. His purpose for coming to earth was to show God's love by dying on a cross thus taking the sins of all mankind upon Himself and paying the penalty that our sins deserve. His bodily resurrection from the grave and His promise to return someday are testimonies to the fact that He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Jesus desires the deepest relationship with every person.
(Matthew 1:22-23; John 1:1; John 1:14; John 1:18; Acts 10:37-43; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4; Ephesians 2:4-8; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 1:15-21; Hebrews 1:1-3)
The Holy Spirit is co-equal with God the Father and God the Son.
He dwells in each member of God's family as a Helper and Guide. It is through the work of the Holy Spirit that a person comes to salvation. At that point the Spirit comes to live in our bodies as His home. He provides power for living, understanding of spiritual truth, strength and direction in following Christ. Every Christian is to allow God's Spirit to help them on a daily basis.
(John 14:16-17; John 16:7-13; Acts 2:38; 1 Corinthians 6:19-21; Ephesians 3:16-20; Ephesians 5:16)
The Bible is God's Word to all people for all time.
The Bible, consisting of the Old and New Testament scriptures, is the uniquely inspired Word of God. Human authors under the supernatural guidance of the Holy Spirit wrote it. The Word of God tells us who God is; why He loves, how our sins have separated us from Him, what His plans are for us, and that Biblical marriage as instituted by God is exclusively the union between one man and one woman in a lifetime commitment to each other.
God has preserved His Word throughout time not to condemn or judge us, but rather to show the way to eternal fellowship with Him. Because God inspires it, all of it is truth without any mixture of error.
(2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21; 2 Timothy 1:13; Colossians 2:13-14; Psalms 119:105, 160; Psalms 12:6; Proverbs 30:5; Matthew 19:4-6; John 3:16-17)
We need salvation because we have sinned.
Sin separates us from God who desires relationship with us. It is impossible for anyone to restore that broken relationship with God by any merit or personal goodness, religious deeds, or by belonging to a church. The death of Jesus was no accident. It was God's plan from the beginning to save us from our sins through the death of Jesus Christ. The Bible calls this act of love, grace. His grace is His gift to us. The way we receive His gift is through a conversion process that includes faith, repentance, confession, and water baptism. In baptism a believer is immersed in water, crucified and buried with Christ, receives forgiveness of sin, the gift of the Holy Spirit, is resurrected, is clothed with Christ, and becomes saved.
(Ephesians 2:1-10; Titus 3:3-5; John 3:16 & 14:6; Acts 2:37-38; Romans 3:10-11, 3:23, 6:3-4, 6:23 & 10:9-10; Galatians 3:26-27; Colossians 2:12, I Peter 3.21)
The Church is God's Spiritual Family.
It is made up of all those who have chosen to place their trust and faith in Jesus. The Church is not a building or a particular group of believers. To belong to the church is to belong to Jesus. The Bible uses the analogy that Jesus is the Head of the Church, which is His Body. God's will is for the Church is to gather regularly to worship God and honor Him. We are to gather to remember Jesus and what He did for us on the cross by taking the Lord's Supper. Each member should use their various gifts and abilities to serve God and others. We are to encourage and love those in the body, and to work diligently to maintain the unity of the body. As the members of His Church love one another and maintain unity of purpose and relationship, the world will recognize that we belong to Jesus. The Church is to seek the will of God as a family, together.
God brings hurting and lost people through our doors to introduce them to a unique group of individuals that, one by one, have similarly experienced His love and His power through the Holy Spirit. Since all who gather are sinful individuals redeemed by God sacrificing His son on the cross, we show kindness and empathy to wounded people and love to those who have been wandering, so that He is elevated in their lives to a point where they understand that they cannot live any longer without committing to a life chasing after a God that is chasing after them.
(Matthew 16:15-18; John 17:20-23; John 13:34-35; Acts 2:42-47; 1 Corinthians 12:12-27; Ephesians 1:22-23; Ephesians 2:19-22; 1 Peter 2:4-10)
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