Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Statement of Faith

Because of the spiritual unity of believers – by our common faith in the Lord Jesus Christ – individual doctrinal differences, which may exist, outside of the following, should not hinder the unity of Christian home educators.
  1. The Bible is the inspired and infallible Word of God (II Timothy 3:16) 
  2. There is one God eternally existent in the three people: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Revelation 1:8)
  3. Jesus Christ is God come in the flesh, born of a virgin, being both fully God and fully man, except without sin (John 1:14; Luke 1:26-33)
  4. Man is by nature sinful and is inherently in need of salvation. Salvation is the free gift of God given to the sinner by grace and received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His shed blood (Romans 3:23; Acts 4:12; Ephesians 2:8-9)
  5. Jesus Christ’s death provided substitutionary atonement for our sins (Hebrews 10:10, 12; Galatians 2:20; Hebrews 9:11-15; Isaiah 53) 
  6. Jesus Christ literally bodily rose from the dead (Matthew 28:6-7; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 11:25; John 20,21).
  7. Jesus Christ will literally come to earth again in the second coming (Luke 21:27-28).
  8. Salvation is provided by the grace of God, by faith in Jesus Christ, not by any type of human merit or good works. (Ephesians 2:8-9)