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| Our Purpose: To create fully devoted
followers of Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy
Spirit and the Word of God. |
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| Wawasee Community Bible Church Statement
of Faith |
| *NOTE: The following statement is our abridged Statement
of Faith, click here to download a PDF of the entire statement
of faith. |
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| A. BIBLE |
| We believe the Holy Scriptures consisting of the Old
and New Testaments to be the verbally inspired Word of
God, inerrant in the original writings, and of supreme
and final authority in faith and life. |
| 2 TIMOTHY 3:16-17 // 2 PETER 1:21
// 1 THESSALONIANS 2:13 |
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| B. GODHEAD |
| We believe that the Godhead eternally exists in three
persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; and
that these three are one God, having precisely the same
homage, confidence, and obedience. |
| 1 JOHN 5:7 // JOHN 1:1, 14 // ACTS
5:3-4 |
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| C. VIRGIN BIRTH |
| We believe that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son
of God, conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin
Mary, lived a sinless life, and is true God and true man. |
| ISAIAH 7:14 // LUKE 1:35 // HEBREWS
4:15 |
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| D. HOLY SPIRIT |
| We believe that the Holy Spirit is the third person
of the Trinity; that His ministry is to convict the world
of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment; to regenerate
the unbelieving, and to sanctify, comfort, teach, and
empower believers by His indwelling fullness. |
| JOHN 16:13-14 // JOHN 7:38-39 //
JOHN 16:8 // ACTS 1:8 // JOHN 14:16-17 |
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| E. MAN |
| We believe that man was created in the image of God,
that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical
death, but also that spiritual death which is separation
from God, and that all men are sinful both by nature and
by choice. |
| ROMANS 3:10, 23 // GENESIS 1:26-27
// GENESIS 3:1-6 // ROMANS 5:12 |
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| F. BLOOD ATONEMENT |
| We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary
sacrifice; that all who believe in Him are justified on
the basis of His shed blood. |
| ROMANS 5:6-9 // 2 CORINTHIANS 5:21
// GALATIANS 3:13 // 1 JOHN 4:10 // 1 PETER 1:18-19 |
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| G. SALVATION |
| We believe that salvation is by grace through faith,
not of works, and that all who repent (turn from sin to
God) and receive by faith Jesus Christ as personal Savior
and Lord are born again of the Holy Spirit, thereby becoming
children of God. |
| EPHESIANS 2:8-9 // ACTS 20:20-21
// JOHN 3:16 // JOHN 1:12 // 1 JOHN 5:11-12 |
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| H. RESURRECTION |
| We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body
of our Lord, in His ascension into Heaven, and in His
present ministry there for us as High Priest and Advocate. |
| MATTHEW 28:6-7 // ACTS 1:9-10 //
HEBREWS 2:17 // 1 JOHN 2:1 |
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| I. SECOND COMING |
| We believe in the personal, imminent coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ for His Church, and later in His visible,
bodily return to set up His Kingdom upon the earth. |
| 1 THESSALONIANS 4:16-18 // ACTS
1:11 // MATTHEW 24:44 // REVELATION 20:6 |
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| J. HEAVEN AND HELL |
| We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust; the everlasting conscious blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost. |
| 1 THESS. 4:13-18 // 2 CORINTHIANS 5:8 // 2 THESS. 1:7-9 // REVELATION 20:11-15 |
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| K. SATAN |
| We believe that Satan is a person, the author of sin and the cause of the fall of man; that he is the open and declared enemy of God and man; and that he shall be eternally punished in the Lake of Fire. |
| JOB 1:6-7 // ISAIAH 14:12-17 // MATTHEW 4:2-11 // REVELATION 20:10 |
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| L. CHURCH |
| We believe in the Church, a living, spiritual body of which Christ is the Head, and of which all regenerated people are members; and that the local, visible church is a company of believers in Jesus Christ, associated together for worship, work, and fellowship. |
| MATTHEW 16:16-18 // 1 CORINTHIANS 12:12-13 // COLOSSIANS 1:18 // ACTS 2:41-42, 47 |
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| M. ORDINANCES |
| We believe in the observance of the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper in obedience to the commands of Christ; that Baptism is the immersion of a believer in water as the outward expression of an inward experience of salvation and union with Christ; and that the Lord’s Supper is a memorial of Christ’s death, to be observed only by believers and to be preceded always by solemn self-examination. |
| MATTHEW 28:19 // ROMANS 6:3-5 // ACTS 8:36-39 // MATTHEW 26:26-30 // 1 CORINTHIANS 11:23-29 |
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| O. MISSIONS |
| We believe that it is the privilege and obligation of the saved to witness by life and by word to the truths of Holy Scripture and to seek to proclaim the Gospel to all mankind. |
| ROMANS 1:14-16 // 2 CORINTHIANS 5:19-20 // ACTS 1:8 // MARK 16:15 |
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