10 Core Beliefs

 

Personal God

Creed:

I believe God is involved in and cares about my personal life.

 

Memory Verse:

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.'”
Matthew 22:37-39

Authority of the Bible

Creed:

I believe the Bible is the Word of God and has the right to command my belief and action.

 

Memory Verse:

“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
2 Timothy 3:16 & 17

 

 

Trinity

Creed:

I believe the God of the Bible is the only true God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

 

Memory Verse:

“May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.”
2 Corinthians 13:14

Jesus our Savior

Creed:

Salvation has been provided only through Jesus Christ.

 

Memory Verse:

“Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'”  
John 14:6

 

Jesus our Sanctifier

Creed:

“I believe Jesus Christ, through the Holy Spirit, works in my life to make me holy”

 

Memory Verse:

“You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.”
Romans 8:9

 

 

Jesus our Healer

Creed:

“I believe Jesus is my Healer.”

 

Memory Verse:

“But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.”
Isaiah 53:5

 

Jesus our coming King

Creed:

I believe that Christ is our Coming King and that He has all authority in heaven and on earth.

 

Memory Verse:

“And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.” Matthew 24:14

 

Church

Creed:

“I believe the Church is God's primary way to accomplish His purposes on earth today.”

 

Memory Verse:

“Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.”
Ephesians 4:15, 16

 

Stewardship

Creed:

I believe that everything I am or own belongs to God.

 

Memory Verse:

“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.”
I Corinthians 6:19-20

 

Salvation by Grace

Creed:

I believe a person comes into a right relationship with God by His grace, through faith in Jesus Christ.

 

Memory Verse:

“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast.”
Ephesians 2:8 & 9