Grace Bible Church

Statement of Faith

statement of faith

We Believe:

There is one God, eternally existent in three: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
That Jesus Christ was and is the Son of God.
In His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death, in His personal return to this earth in power and glory, and that He is now both Lord and Christ.
That all have sinned and that the only means of being cleansed from sin is through the blood of Christ.
That regeneration by the Holy Spirit is essential for personal salvation.
That man is justified by faith in Jesus Christ, apart from works.
That the redemptive work of Christ provides healing for the whole man – spirit, soul and body.
In water baptism, as a command of the Lord, by immersion, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
A person baptized with the Holy Spirit will speak in tongues.
In the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling presence the believer is enabled to live a godly life which manifests the fruit of the Spirit.
That the gifts of the Holy Spirit should be practiced in the church today.
In the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; the saved to everlasting life, and the lost to eternal judgment.
That the Bible is the infallible and only Word of God, given to men by the inspiration of God. We do not accept the Apocrypha as inspired.
In the reality and personality of our enemy, Satan.
In the church, the body of Christ, as the instrument and focus of God’s purposes in the earth; and that every believer should be committed and joined to a local expression of the church.
In remembering the Lord’s death in the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper.
In remembering that God is restoring the church in these last days, and that He is restoring truth to the church.

Consequently, these statements do not exhaust the fullness of the truth that will be in the restored church. Nor are they a full statement of all that we understand concerning each of these truths. They are a brief statement of some of the fundamental doctrines which have been restored to the church. In addition to these doctrinal teachings, we believe that the Bible contains the guidelines for the government and practices of the church; and that the fullness of restoration involves returning to the Biblical pattern in every area of doctrine, organization, worship and practice.