What We Believe

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In all matters of faith and morals, the authority of the Holy Scriptures stands supreme.  By no means do the following Articles of Faith substitute for the Holy Scriptures but serve only as sound guides to valid doctrine for all those who preach and teach in Christ Foundation Church-Home For Christ Foundation.  It, also, is to encourage thoughtful and responsible Christians to open the Bible and to prayerfully study its contents to discover God’s perspective on every issue of life and faith.

 

The Holy Scriptures

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We believe that the Bible is God’s special written revelation to man, and thus the 66 books of the Bible given to us by the Holy Spirit constitute the inspired Word of God

 

The True God

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We believe that there is only one true God, holy and living, who is Creator and Preserver of all things visible and invisible.  He is Sovereign and infinite in power, wisdom, justice, goodness and love. We believe the one Eternal God reveals Himself in three Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, distinct but inseparable without division of nature, essence, or being

 

• The Father. We believe that God the Father, the first Person of the Trinity, orders and disposes all things according to His own purpose and grace. As the only absolute and omnipotent Ruler in the universe, He is sovereign in creation, providence, and redemption. As Creator, He is Father to all creation, but He is spiritual Father only to believers. who He saves from sin through his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ.

• The Son. We believe that Jesus Christ, The Son of God, the second Person of the Trinity, is coequal, consubstantial, and coeternal with the Father.  We believe that He was virgin born and that He was God incarnate. We believe that our Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through His sacrificial death on the cross and that through His death, the believing sinner is freed from the punishment, penalty, power, and ultimately, the presence of sin; and is adopted into the family of God. We believe that the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the grave, is God’s guarantee of a future resurrection to life for all believers. We believe that Jesus Christ will return and establish His millennial kingdom on earth. We believe that through the Lord Jesus Christ, God will judge all mankind

• The Holy Spirit. We believe that the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, is a divine Person, and in all the divine attributes He is coequal and consubstantial with the Father and the Son. We recognize His sovereign activity in creation, the incarnation, the written revelation, and the work of salvation.  His divine activity includes convicting the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment, glorifying the Lord Jesus Christ and transforming believers into the image of Christ. We believe that the Holy Spirit also indwells, sanctifies, instructs, empowers believers for service, and seals them unto the day of redemption. We believe that God, the Holy Spirit, is sovereign in bestowing His gifts for the perfecting of the saints, and that the working of sign miracles in the beginning days of the church were for the purpose of authenticating the Apostles as revealers of divine truth, and were never intended to be characteristic of the lives of believers.

 

Man, Sin and the Fall

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We believe that man was directly and immediately created by God in His image and likeness. Man was created free of sin with a rational nature and volition. We believe that in Adam’s sin of disobedience to the Word of God, man lost his innocence, incurred the penalty of spiritual and physical death. Man is hopelessly lost, and his salvation is wholly of God’s grace through the redemptive work of our Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that, because all men were in Adam at the time of his sin, all men are thus sinners by nature, by choice, and by divine declaration and are thereby condemned by God’s perfect justice.

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Salvation

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We believe that salvation from God’s condign justice is wholly of God by grace based on the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, and not based on human merit or works.

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• Regeneration. We believe that regeneration is a supernatural work of the Holy Spirit by which the divine nature and divine life are given. It is instantaneous and is accomplished solely by the power of the Holy Spirit causing the sinner to respond in faith to the divine provision of salvation.

• Election. We believe that election is the act of God by which, before the foundation of the world, He chose in Christ those whom He graciously regenerates, saves, and sanctifies. We believe that the unmerited favor that God grants to sinners is not related to any initiative of their own or to God’s anticipation of what they might do by their own will, but is solely of His sovereign grace and mercy.

• Justification. We believe that justification before God is an act of God by which He declares righteous those who, through faith in Christ, repent of their sins and confess Jesus Christ as their sovereign Lord.

• Sanctification. We believe that every believer is sanctified (set apart) unto God by justification and is thereby declared to be holy and is therefore identified as a Saint. We believe that there is also, by the work of the Holy Spirit, a progressive sanctification by which the state of the believer is brought in conformity to the will of God, becoming more and more like our Lord Jesus Christ.

• Eternal Security. We believe that all the truly redeemed, once saved, are kept by God’s power and are thus secure in Christ forever.

• Separation: We believe that separation from sin is clearly called for throughout the Old and New Testaments. We believe that, out of deep gratitude for the undeserved grace of God granted to us, the saved should live in such a manner as to demonstrate our adoring love to God and so as not to bring reproach upon our Lord and Savior.

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The Church

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• Body of Christ: We believe that all who are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ are immediately placed by the Holy Spirit into one universal spiritual Body, The Church, of which Christ is the Head.  We believe that the church is made up of all born-again believers of all ages. The church is distinct from Israel, a mystery not revealed until this age.

• Local Church: We believe that the establishment and continuity of local churches is clearly taught and defined in the New Testament Scriptures.  We believe in the autonomy of the local church, free from any external authority or control, with the right of self-government.

• Ordinances: We believe that two ordinances have been committed to the local church: Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. We believe that Christian Baptism by immersion is the solemn testimony of a believer showing forth faith in the crucified, buried, and risen Savior and union with Him in death to sin and resurrection to a new life.  It is also a sign of fellowship and identification with the visible Body of Christ. We believe that the Lord’s Supper is the commemoration and proclamation of Christ’s death until He comes, and should be always preceded by solemn self-examination.  We also teach that, while the elements of Communion are only representative of the body and blood of Christ, participation in the Lord’s Supper is an actual communion with the risen Christ, who indwells every believer.

 

The Sabbath

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We believe that the Biblical Sabbath is the seventh day of the week (Saturday).  It was first observed by the Creator himself, given as a gift from God to all mankind, instituted at creation, placed by God in the Ten Commandments and affirmed in the obedient examples of Jesus Christ and His Apostles.  We do not observe the Sabbath for any hope of salvific merit but for the same reason we observe the other nine commandments, in loving celebration, praise and worship to God in response to His glorious grace that He has freely given us in Christ Jesus.

 

Last Things

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• Death. We believe that at physical death the soul of the redeemed passes immediately into the presence of Christ, that there is a separation of soul and body, and that, for the redeemed, such separation will continue until Christ comes, which initiates the first resurrection, when our soul and body will be reunited to be glorified forever with our Lord. Until that time, the souls of the redeemed in Christ remain in joyful fellowship with our Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that the souls of the unsaved at death are kept under punishment until the second resurrection, when the soul and the resurrection body will be united. They shall then appear at the Great White Throne Judgment and shall be cast into hell, the lake of fire, cut off from the life of God forever. We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life, and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment.

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• Eternity. We believe that the saved will enter the eternal state of glory with God, after which the elements of this earth are to be dissolved and replaced with a new earth, wherein only righteousness dwells.  Following this, the heavenly city will come down out of heaven and will be the dwelling place of the saints, where they will enjoy forever fellowship with God and one another.

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