What We Believe

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Jesus, the Christ, is the only Son of God, who died for our sins and arose from the dead.
- 1 Corinthians 15:1-8 (NLT)
  ¹Let me now remind you, dear brothers and sisters, of the Good News I preached to you before. You welcomed it then, and you still stand firm in it. ²It is this Good News that saves you if you continue to believe the message I told you—unless, of course, you believed something that was never true in the first place.
  ³I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to me. Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said. ⁴He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, just as the Scriptures said. ⁵He was seen by Peter and then by the Twelve. ⁶After that, he was seen by more than 500 of his followers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died. ⁷Then he was seen by James and later by all the apostles. ⁸Last of all, as though I had been born at the wrong time, I also saw him.
- John 14:6 (ESV)
  ⁶Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth,and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
The Bible is the inspired word of God.
- 2 Timothy 3:16 (NLT)
  ¹⁶All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right.
- 2 Peter 1:20-21 (NLT)
  ²⁰Above all, you must realize that no prophecy in Scripture ever came from the prophet’s own understanding, ²¹or from human initiative. No, those prophets were moved by the Holy Spirit, and they spoke from God.
Every person has worth as a creation of God, but all have sinned.
- Romans 3:23 (NLT)
  ²³For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.
- Isaiah 53:6 (NLT)
  ⁶All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.
Forgiveness of sins and the promise of eternal life are available to all who trust Jesus, the Christ, as Savior and Lord.
- John 3:16 (NTFE)
  ¹⁶This, you see, is how much God loved the world: enough to give his only, special son, so that everyone who believes in him should not be lost but should share in the life of God’s new age.
Those who accept Jesus as their Savior are those who repent of their sin, confess their faith, and are baptized into Christ.
- Romans 10:9 (CEV)
  ⁹So you will be saved, if you honestly say, “Jesus is Lord,” and if you believe with all your heart that God raised him from death.
- Romans 6:1-7 (MSG)
  ¹⁻³So what do we do? Keep on sinning so God can keep on forgiving? I should hope not! If we’ve left the country where sin is sovereign, how can we still live in our old house there? Or didn’t you realize we packed up and left there for good? That is what happened in baptism. When we went under the water, we left the old country of sin behind; when we came up out of the water, we entered into the new country of grace—a new life in a new land!
  ³⁻⁵That’s what baptism into the life of Jesus means. When we are lowered into the water, it is like the burial of Jesus; when we are raised up out of the water, it is like the resurrection of Jesus. Each of us is raised into a light-filled world by our Father so that we can see where we’re going in our new grace-sovereign country.
  ⁶⁻¹¹Could it be any clearer? Our old way of life was nailed to the cross with Christ, a decisive end to that sin-miserable life — no longer captive to sin’s demands! What we believe is this: If we get included in Christ’s sin-conquering death, we also get included in his life-saving resurrection. We know that when Jesus was raised from the dead it was a signal of the end of death-as-the-end. Never again will death have the last word. When Jesus died, he took sin down with him, but alive he brings God down to us. From now on, think of it this way: Sin speaks a dead language that means nothing to you; God speaks your mother tongue, and you hang on every word. You are dead to sin and alive to God. That’s what Jesus did.
- Acts 2:38 (NLT)
  ³⁸Peter replied, “Each of you must repent of your sins and turn to God, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. Then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
- Acts 3:19 (ESV)
  ¹⁹Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,
The church is the body of Jesus, the Christ. It exists as God's chosen instrument through which Jesus fulfills His mission to "seek and to save the lost" and help the saved grow in their faith.
- Luke 19:10 (ESV)
  ¹⁰For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
- Ephesians 1:23 (MSG)
  ˜²³The church is Christ’s body, in which he speaks and acts, by which he fills everything with his presence.
- Ephesians 3:10-11 NIV)
  ¹⁰His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, ¹¹according to his eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 10:14-16 (NTFE)
  ¹⁴So how are they to call on someone when they haven’t believed in him? And how are they to believe if they don’t hear? And how will they hear without someone announcing it to them? ¹⁵And how will people make that announcement unless they are sent? As the Bible says, “How beautiful are the feet of the ones who bring good news of good things.”
  ¹⁶But not all obeyed the good news. Isaiah asks, you see, “Lord, who has believed our report?”
- 2 Corinthians 4:5-6 (NLT)
  ⁵You see, we don’t go around preaching about ourselves. We preach that Jesus Christ is Lord, and we ourselves are your servants for Jesus’ sake. ⁶For God, who said, “Let there be light in the darkness,” has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.
Jesus will one day return to earth and reign forever as King of kings and Lord of lords.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 (NLT)
  ¹³And now, dear brothers and sisters, we want you to know what will happen to the believers who have died so you will not grieve like people who have no hope. ¹⁴For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus returns, God will bring back with him the believers who have died.
  ¹⁵We tell you this directly from the Lord: We who are still living when the Lord returns will not meet him ahead of those who have died. ¹⁶For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, the believers who have died will rise from their graves. ¹⁷Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Then we will be with the Lord forever. ¹⁸So encourage each other with these words.