What We Believe
We believe God's desire is to see generations raised up who love the Lord and live to obey Him. We believe God makes this possible through a deep, personal, abiding relationship with Jesus. We also believe faith must rooted and grounded in Jesus Christ alone, established by His Word.
Jesus is the essence of our faith. He is the cornerstone and foundation upon which faith exists and faith allows us to please God. What we believe, our Statement of Faith herein, represents the foundation of our faith, our beliefs, and the doctrinal position of Faith Project, Inc.
Scripture
- We believe that the Bible is God’s written revelation to man. The 66 books of the Bible, Old Testament and New Testament, constitute the Word of God. The Bible is divinely inspired, inerrant, infallible, supremely authoritative, and sufficient in everything it teaches. All Scripture is a testimony to Christ, who is Himself the focus of divine revelation.
- We believe that the Bible explicitly and clearly reveals the person and attributes of God, the way of salvation, and what God requires of man. The final guide to the interpretation of Scripture is Scripture itself. The whole counsel of God is essential in interpreting and understanding Scripture. The Bible is the only infallible rule for faith and practice.
Psalm 19:7–11, 119:9-11, 119:89; Romans 10:17, 5:1–2, 5:12, 6:23; 2 Peter 1:3, 1:20-21, 3:23; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, 10:9; John 3:14–18; Acts 16:30–31; Ephesians 2:8; Proverbs 8:8–9, 30:5; Matthew 12:3–5; 2 Corinthians 4:22; Timothy 3:16–17, 2 Samuel 7:28
Creation
- We believe that there is one and only one living and true God who is infinitely perfect. He is the Creator of the heavens and the earth and the Sustainer and Ruler of all things. We believe that God created all things visible and invisible, speaking the world into existence out of nothing.
- We believe that God created man, male and female, which establishes biological sex and gender. Both male and female were created in God’s image and likeness, without sin. Male and female were created to glorify God by enjoying fellowship with Him, trusting in His sufficient goodness, admiring His infinite beauty, and living in His will.
Genesis 1:1, 1:27, 2:1–4; Deuteronomy 6:4; 1 John 1:3-6; Psalm 22:28, 103:19, 147:5; Isaiah 40:28, 45:18; 2 Samuel 22:31; Nehemiah 9:6; Ecclesiastes 12:1–6; Matthew 5:48, 28:18; Mark 12:29–34; John 1:1–3; 1 Corinthians 8:4; Colossians 1:16–17, 2:3; Hebrews 1:1–3; Revelation 1:8, 4:11, 7:9–10; James 3:9
Man
- We believe that God created mankind, male and female, which establishes biological sex and gender. Both male and female were created in God’s image and likeness, without sin. Male and female were created to glorify God by enjoying fellowship with Him, trusting in His sufficient goodness, admiring His infinite beauty, and living in His will.
- In the beginning man was innocent of sin and walked in perfect unhindered relationship with his Creator. God in love gave man the freedom of choice.
- All human life is sacred and begins at conception, the moment of fertilization. Each unborn child is a unique, living human being, created in the image of God, fearfully and wonderfully made, and must be respected and protected both before and after birth.
Genesis 1:26–27, 5:2, 9:6; Matthew 19:4–6; Mark 10:6; 1 Corinthians 11:7, 15:49; James 3:9–10, 2:11; Revelation 4:11; Isaiah 43:7; Colossians 1:16; Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17; Psalm 51:5
The Fall of Man
- By freedom of choice, man disobeyed God’s instruction and therefore, as a direct consequence, sin was brought into the world. Sin created both a physical and spiritual separation between man and God. All mankind from conception is born with a sinful nature, inclined toward sin, and separated from the life of God.
- All mankind has sinned and falls short of God’s glory, His glorious standard, and therefore is subject to God’s wrath and condemnation. Humans enter into this world as children of wrath. All humans are equally sinful, equally deserving of eternal punishment, and equally able to receive salvation in Christ, to alternatively become children of God.
- Since all humans are made in the image of God, all humans have equal dignity and value regardless of age, occupation, upbringing, intelligence, gender, physical ability, skin tone, religion, ethnicity, or any other characteristic
Genesis 2:16–17, 1:26–27, 3:8, 3:19-20, 4:4–8, 11:9; Romans 5:12, 3:23, 8:20–22; 1 Corinthians 15:21–22; Isaiah 53:6; John 12:32; Romans 3:23, 5:12; 2 Peter 3:9; 1 Kings 8:46; Psalm 116:11; Proverbs 16:5; John 3:16–18, 12:48; Acts 17:26–28
God
- We believe the eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.
Genesis 1:26; Matthew 28:19; John 10:30; Deuteronomy 6:4
God the Father
- We believe God as Father orders and orchestrates all things according to His own purpose and grace. He is the Creator of all things. He is the supreme Ruler of the universe, He is sovereign in creation, providence, and redemption.
- We believe God the Father is all-powerful, all loving, and all wise. He saves from sin all who come to Him in faith through Jesus Christ. He adopts as His own all those who receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior; and He becomes, upon adoption, Father to His own.
Genesis 1:1-31; Psalm 103:19; 136:1; 145:8-9; 1 Chronicles 29:11; Habakkuk 1:13; Isaiah 6:1- 13; John 1:12; 8:38-47; Romans 8:14-15; 11:36; 1 Corinthians 8:6; 2 Corinthians 6:18; Galatians 4:5; Ephesians 1:4-11
God the Son
- Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, and lived a sinless perfect life. He is fully God and fully man. From the beginning He was with God and is God. All things were made through Him and for Him.
- Jesus died on the cross, making a full and satisfactory atonement for man’s sin. There’s no other name given amongst men by which a person can be saved. He is the only Savior for the sins of the world. Through Jesus man’s ability to have a relationship with God the Father and to enjoy fellowship with Him has been reestablished.
- Jesus Christ rose bodily from the dead and appeared to His disciples as the person who was with them before His crucifixion. He ascended to heaven and is now seated at the right hand of God the Father as our Mediator, and shall return in power and glory to this earth to Judge the living and the dead. He now dwells in all believers as the living and ever-present Lord.
Isaiah 7:14, 53:4–6; Matthew 1:16–23, 28:6; John 8:29, 8:46, 1:1-3, 10:30, 19:30, 14:9; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:21–22 Luke 1:30-35, Hebrews 7:25-26, 9:11–12, 10:12–14, 1:2-3; 1 Peter 2:22, 1:17–19; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; 1 John 2:2, 1:3; Luke 24:39; 1 Corinthians 15:3-5; Acts 17:31, 1:9-11, 2:33; Ephesians 1:17–23; 2 Timothy 4:1, Philippians 2:9-11, 2:5-8; Colossians 1:15-17; 1 Timothy 2:5
God the Holy Spirit
- The Holy Spirit is Lord and Giver of life, who glorifies our Lord Jesus Christ. He convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. He inspired men of old to write the Scriptures.
- The Holy Spirit’s work is necessary for sinners to repent and believe in Jesus Christ through the gospel. He enables men to understand truth.
- The Holy Spirit lives and works in each believer immediately after he professes faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. He cultivates Christian character, comforts believers, and bestows spiritual gifts by which they serve God through His church. He empowers the believer and the church in worship, evangelism, and service and enables them to produce the fruits of righteousness.
John 15:26, 16:8–11, 16:14, 14:16–17; Romans 8:1-11; 5:5; 1 Corinthians 2:6–14, 12:3, 3:16, 6:18–20; Titus 3:3–7; Galatians 5:16-25; Acts 1:8, 4:31; Ephesians 2:19–22
Salvation
- We believe salvation is by God’s grace alone, a gift received by faith alone in Christ alone. No one can enter into the kingdom of God unless born again spiritually. The one who is born of God has repented, has recognized the death of Christ as full payment for sin, and by faith has received the risen Christ as Savior, Lord, and God. There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.
Ephesians 2:8–9; Titus 3:3–7; John 1:12–13; Acts 3:19, 16:31, 17:30–31, 20:21; Galatians 2:20–21; 1 John 3:9;Hebrews 9:14; 2 Peter 3:9
The Church
- The Church consists of all those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, are redeemed through His blood, and are born again of the Holy Spirit. Christ is the Head of the Body, the Church, which has been commissioned by Him to go into all the world as a witness, preaching the gospel to all nations, making disciples that make disciples.
- The local church is a body of believers in Christ who are joined together for the worship of God, for edification through the Word of God, for prayer, fellowship, the proclamation of the gospel, and observance of the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. The purpose of the church body in all respects is to know Jesus, to make Jesus known, and to be known by Him when He returns.
John 3:16; Ephesians 1:22–23, 5:23; Matthew 28:19–20, Acts 16:30–31, 2:41-47, 3:36, 11:25, 20:7; Colossians 1:18; Romans 10:8–10; 1 Corinthians 11:17–33, 16:2; Hebrews 10:23–25, 13:17
Sacraments
- The Lord’s Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby followers of Christ, through partaking of the bread and the wine, remember the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.
- Baptism is the immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer’s faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Savior. Baptism also signifies the believer’s death to sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus. It is a public testimony to his faith and belief in the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus.
Acts 2:41-42, 2:38-42, 8:36-39; 1 Corinthians 10:16, 11:23; Romans 6:1-11
Sanctification
- We believe the work of sanctification is an act of divine grace, beginning at conversion, when a person becomes a born-again believer in Christ. In this lifelong process, the heart is cleansed from sin and filled with the pure love of God. All believers in various ways are vulnerable to sin and temptation. God expects all believers to keep growing in spiritual maturity over the course of the Christian life, the goal of which is always to pursue Christ-likeness.
- We believe that sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit who enables believers to understand and obey the Word of God as they exercise faith in Christ. Christians will be sanctified as they continue to grow in the knowledge of God’s will through essential spiritual disciplines including the Word, prayer, meditation, the Church, and accountability of believers. We believe holiness to be God’s standard of living for His people.
- We believe the process of sanctification is imperfect and incomplete in this life. The sinful nature of man remains and therefore, though sinful desires are progressively weakened by the power of a growing love for God, desires within the believer will always be contrary to God’s desires. Every Christian is involved in a daily conflict with sin and temptation, but by the power of the Holy Spirit, God provides provision to obtain victory over sin.
Romans 12:1–21, 6:1–23, 8:1–17; Ephesians 6:10–18, 4:22–24; Philippians 2:13, 3:12; Psalm 19:7–13; 119:9–11; John 17:17; 1 Corinthians 2:10–16; Galatians 5:16–25; Colossians 3:9–10; 1 Peter 1:14–16; 1 John 3:5–9
Jesus Return
- We believe that Jesus, the King of kings and Lord of lords, will return to earth bodily, in power and glory, at a time fixed by the Father and unknown to the Church, to judge the living and the dead at His appearing.
- All shall be raised from the dead: those who have died in Christ to eternal life in heaven and those who have rejected Him to everlasting punishment in the lake of fire (hell).
- Satan, who is a personal spiritual adversary of both God and man, along with the forces of darkness, will be judged and cast into the lake of fire (hell) for eternity.
John 6:39–40, 12:48; Acts 1:9–11; 1 Peter 4:5; Daniel 12:2; Matthew 13:49–50, 25:41–46; Luke 12:5; 1 Corinthians 15:12–26; Revelation 21:8, 20:10
Family
- We believe marriage is the union of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime. God instituted marriage to depict Christ’s love for His church and is defined solely by Scripture. God intends sexual intimacy to only occur between a man and a woman who are married to each other and has commanded that no sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman.
- The husband and wife are of equal worth before God, since both are created in God’s image. The marriage relationship models the way God relates to His people. A husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the church. He has the God-given responsibility to provide for, to protect, and to lead his family. A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ. She, being in the image of God as is her husband and thus equal to him, has the God-given responsibility to respect her husband and to serve as his helper in managing the household and nurturing the next generation.
- Children, from the moment of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the Lord. Parents are to demonstrate to their children God’s pattern for marriage. Parents are responsible to instruct and to model for their children Christian faith and conduct. To lead them, through consistent lifestyle example and loving discipline, to make choices based on biblical truth. Children are to honor and obey their parents.
Genesis 1:27–28, 2:24; Matthew 5:27–30, 19:4-5; Mark 10:2–9; 1 Corinthians 6:9–11; 1 Thessalonians 4:3–7; Hebrews 13:4; Ephesians 5:1-33, 6:1-4; Deuteronomy 6:6–9; Proverbs 22:6
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