Cross Culture 365 - Doctrinal statements

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We believe in the infallible, inerrant and inspired word of God to be the base of our faith and doctrine. The Bible is the guiding and governing authority in our lives! (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:19-21).

We believe in one perfect and sovereign God being one in essence exiting in three persons: (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). (Matthew 28:19; 1 Corinthians 8:4; 2 Corinthians 13:14).

We believe God the Father, the first person of the Trinity, created, ordered, and manifested things by Divine purpose and amazing grace, (Psalm 145:8,9; 1 Corinthians 8:6).

God the Creator of everything, (Genesis 1:1-31; Ephesians 3:9). He is Sovereign in creation, providence, and redemption, (Psalm 103:19; Romans 11:36).

We believe God the Son, the second person of the Trinity, is 100% divine and human possessing the divine excellencies, (John 1:1-5;14; John 10:30; 14:9).

God the Son carries out the existence and the operations of God the Father’s perfect will in the earth, (John 1:3; Colossians 1:15-17; Hebrews 1:2).

We believe that in the incarnation (God becoming man), Jesus Christ was miraculously born of a virgin and surrendered only the prerogatives of deity but nothing of divine essence. He became 100% human accepting all the essential characteristics of humanity, (Philippians 2:5-8; Colossians 2:9; Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23-25; Luke 1:2-35).

We believe Jesus Christ paid the ultimate price for propitiation of our sins through the shedding of His blood through a sacrificial death on the cross for our total redemption, (John 10:15; Romans 3:24-25; 5:8; 1 Peter 2:24).

We believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead back to heaven seated at the right hand of the Father with complete deity and divinity.

We believe in the divine person the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity. He covers, convicts of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment; bears witness to the biblical truth in preaching and testimony. He is the divine agent of the new birth: He bestows, He gifts, He guides, He governs, He instructs, He sanctifies, He baptized the believer into the fellowship with Christ Jesus, and indwells and empowers the follower of Jesus Christ, (Genesis 1:1-3; Matthew 28:19; John 14:16-17,26; 1:8-11; 1 Corinthians 6:19).

We believe man was created in the image of God to rule and reign on the earth; (Genesis 1:26-28).

We believe man was created in innocence but as a choice of voluntary sin, man fell from their sinless state and perfect estate, (Genesis 3:1-6.;24).And as a consequence of man's transgression; all are depraved and partaker's of Adam's fallen nature, and therefore sinners by nature, (Romans 1:18-32; 3:10-19; 5:12,19).

We believe in order to be saved, sinners must be born again through the blood bought price of Jesus Christ that washes our sins away, (John 3:3, 6:7; Acts 16:30-33; Romans 6:23; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Ephesians 2:1,5, 8-9; 2 Peter 1:4; 1 John 5:1).  

We believe every believer set apart and justified by God and declared to be holy and is identified as a saint. This sanctification is our standing before God not to be misunderstood with progressive sanctification, (Acts 20:32; 1 Corinthians 1:2,30; 6:11; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; Hebrews 2:11; 3;1; 10:10,14; 13:12; 1 Peter 1:2). 

We believe in the unity of true followers of Jesus Christ, which makes up the Body of Christ established on the Day of Pentecost and all believers, from Pentecost to the Second-Coming of Christ, both Jews and Gentiles, are added to this Church by the Holy Spirit instantly at the moment of salvation.

We believe this Church is manifested through the local and universal church made up of baptized believers connected by the covenant of faith and the fellowship of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, (Acts 15:2, 13-18; 20:17-28; 1 Timothy 3:1-7; Ephesians 1:22-23; 4:11; 5:23,24; Colossians 1:18).

We believe in the baptism by the immersion of water in the way Jesus was baptized. Baptism is symbolic of Jesus Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection demonstrating the new life of the believer, (1 Corinthians 15:3-4; Colossians 2:12). 

We believe in the personality of the evil one; he is cunning and crafty and ungodly in all his ways. Satan is the ruler of all darkness and destined to eternal justice to the lake of fire, (Matthew 4:1-11; Revelations 20:10).