What
We Believe
En qué creemos
The Old and New Testaments are the inspired, infallible and authoritative
Word of God. The Word is the divine and final authority for the Christian
life.
There
is one God, the creator of all things, who is infinitely perfect and
eternally existent in three persons; the Father, the Son and the Holy
Spirit.
Jesus
Christ is the union of God and man. He is True God and True Man, conceived
of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He lived a sinless
life and died on the cross as a sacrifice for the sins of all men.
He arose bodily from the dead, ascended into Heaven and is seated
at the right hand of the Father as our high priest and advocate.
Man
was created in the image of God, but fell into sin, which resulted
in his spiritual death and separation from God. Only through regeneration
by the Holy Spirit can salvation and spiritual life be obtained. This
process of regeneration, referred to as being "born again"
in the Word, takes place through a combination of faith and confession.
The
present day ministry of the Holy Spirit is to comfort and guide the
believer, with the final purpose of glorifying the Lord Jesus Christ
in the earth. Every believer should be filled with the Holy Spirit,
with speaking in tongues as the initial physical evidence.
Without
faith it is impossible to please God. The Word tells us that the just
(those who have been justified by the blood of Jesus) shall live by
faith. The redemptive work of Jesus not only provided salvation for
the believer, but healing and prosperity as well for our spiritual,
soulish and physical man. We are redeemed from the curse of the law
- poverty, sickness, oppression, and any thing that prevents us from
fulfilling His plan.
The
premillenial Second Coming of Jesus Christ is two-part in nature;
He will come in the air to resurrect the righteous dead and catch
away the living saints; He will then come to the earth to establish
His physical Kingdom, and begin His thousand-year reign.
There
will be a bodily resurrection of the dead; the believer to everlasting
joy with the Lord and the unbeliever to judgment and eternal punishment.