Statement of Faith

1. The Scriptures

Our Lord has instructed us to represent Him in speech, conduct, and thought to the best of our human abilities. We are commanded to not bear false witness, especially regarding His testimony, the covenants, and His history with His people, which is named the Holy Bible in inspiration considering the enumerated aspects. We are commanded to take care of these Scriptures, and if not, there are severe consequences.

Therefore, there is the potential and possibility the Scriptures can be changed mistakenly or inadvertently for ill gain as testified in the Prophets by the corrupt leaders of Israel. The good news is that our Scriptures have been preserved, and we have found over 5,000 manuscripts with 99.5% accuracy. This is a miracle despite our flaws and tendency to be independent from God in the name of survival. This is not only a representation of God’s love, faithfulness, and longsuffering toward us for us to have eternal life, but also His promise to sovereignly fulfill His own covenants and preserving His Word. Its purpose and end is to know Him and His Son Jesus of Nazareth, to be in familial relationship with Him for eternity. It is sufficient for that purpose, instruction in life, and the foundation by which we discern truth from error, good from evil.

Therefore, it is true and trustworthy due to its miraculous preservation, vast internal consistencies, fulfilled prophecies, and more to come (). Our Lord also has told us that there are more books testifying who He is that we might find that is internally consistent with the Holy Scriptures and its history.

2. God

Who is God? The Scriptures give us a picture of who God is. Genesis 1 shows us that He is the Uncreated Creator, the only one. And because He is the Uncreated Creator, these are the attributes that flow from Him:

All Knowing. Everything He created, He knows inside and out by design. Therefore,
Ruler, Preserver, King, and Judge of the Universe. The Sovereign.
Eternal and Unseen. In order to be all knowing, He must be outside of the physical universe in an unseen, immaterial, eternal realm He dwells in not bound by the Laws of Nature.

And by creating mankind in His image, Spirit and the unity and essence of male and female, He is:

Father to mankind. He is already Father to His family in Heaven. Therefore,
Relational being. He is relational to His family in Heaven. And by being a relational and familial being, He can be and is triune being: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

A. God the Father

Due to His attributes, He sovereignly reigns with care over all He has made in our universe and in His realm as a relational and familial being toward His divine and earthly family and being the Uncreated Creator. He definitely has His hands full.

B. God the Son

In the beginning, He was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He came to the earth by being born supernaturally by the Power of God in the virgin Mary, and Gabrielle, an angel of the Lord, told Mary beforehand. She agreed to be a servant of the Lord to be His mother. The invisible Word of God became flesh, fully God and fully man, lived and raised Jewish under the Law, and obeyed His Father in Heaven without sin becoming the Lamb of God. As the spotless Lamb of God, He became the perfect sacrifice; and in His substitutionary death on the cross and resurrection from the dead, He made provision for the redemption of mankind from sin, death, and eternal judgment by receiving the Holy Spirit by faith in His life, death, and resurrection from the dead. By His resurrection, He received His glorified body, and He appeared to His disciples who were with Him till His death on the cross. He ascended into heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God where He is the One mediator, fully God and fully man, who effected the reconciliation between God and mankind. He will return to judge the world and consummate His redemptive mission. By faith in Him, we become His rightful sons and daughters in a relational, familial relationship with Him observing and abiding in the Law of Christ.

C. God the Holy Spirit

We receive the Holy Spirit by faith in Jesus of Nazareth. Eternal life is that we know the Father and Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of the Living God. He is referred to as the Spirit of Truth, the Spirit of Peace, and the Advocate. He teaches and reminds of all that Jesus taught and in all truth. He convicts man of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. By our faith and power of the Holy Spirit, we bear fruit. And every one of us with the Spirit will bear more fruit by His pruning and continued faith. He will remove anyone of us from Him if we bear zero fruit. Whoever does not abide in Him withers like a branch and will be gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If we abide in Him, He will abide and dwell in us, and we will bear much fruit. He has appointed us to bear fruit, fruit that will last. He is the comforter, bestower, and sovereign over the spiritual gifts by which we serve God through His church and our love toward our neighbor. He seals the believer unto the Day of Redemption. The giving of the Holy Spirit was the New Covenant promise in Ezekiel 36:22-32.

3. Mankind

God created mankind in His Image (Our Image in Genesis 1), male and female and Spirit, in His likeness, not the likeness of animals. Men and women possess His Image equally as a role to be representative of God on earth, His proxy. He created Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden on top of His mountain, which was His and His family’s home. This is where God’s presence was and where earth and heaven intersect. The Garden of Eden wasn’t the whole earth. Adam and Eve were to care for the garden and multiply the human race, spreading out over the whole earth, and making it just like Eden. A throne guardian, a guardian cherub, was supposed to protect the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, but He rebelled, tempted Adam and Eve, and they ate. Due to their sin, death came to mankind (lost their immortality), the serpent, and the garden. God had mercy on Adam and Eve, clothed them with animal skins signifying forgiveness, and sent them out the garden (the presence of God). For the rebellious garden cherub, God cast down to the realm of the dead, conceived to be inside the earth, or the earth (erets). Erets is another word for the underworld. Yet God’s plan to bring back His human family into His presence and to bring back their immortality was set in motion.

4. Salvation

Our God is the God of Life, Peace, and Righteousness, and He wants to have a relational, familial relationship with His family on earth (mankind) and His family in Heaven. Although death, sin, and chaos entered mankind and into His family in Heaven due to guardian cherub, Adam, and Eve’s sin, He wants to restore and maintain His relationship with us, to those who desire a relationship with Him and to give those who don’t a chance. Salvation isn’t a project. We are not a project. He is the loving Father who loves His children, wants us to be with Him, and only wants what His best for us: to be full of life, peace, and righteousness. The Father primarily speaks to us through the Word of God, Jesus the Christ, and He sent Him to the earth to reveal who He is and show how to be back in relationship with Him (Eternal life: to know the Son of the Living God Jesus the Christ and the Father), to be full of life, peace, and righteousness on earth and to be resurrected with Him conquering death, sin, and chaos as He did. As in any relationship, we must trust in Him to have the relationship and continue to trust in Him to keep and grow the relationship, despite our failings. And when we die, we are resurrected, receive immortality, and to be in perfect relationship with Him in His presence and domain.

5. God’s purpose of Grace

As stated before, God desires to have a relational, familial relationship with His family, and He has expressed His deep love for us who failed in our relationship with Him throughout the Scriptures. The greatest expression of His grace is the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth as the atonement for our sin and our redemption to be in relational, familial relationship with Him in His dominion or realm for eternity. This is the gospel, the message of reconciliation to be in relationship with the Father and His Son through trusting in Him.

6. The Church

The Church is all believers and followers of Christ with Jesus Christ as the Head, our Lord and King. His commandments and promises govern its life and structure. It is both hierarchical and relational, with an emphasis on the relational aspect between the leaders and congregation as a family growing in our relationship with Him keeping His commandments full of grace and truth. Our commandment from our Lord and King is to teach all of mankind to know and trust in the Lord through faith in the gospel: the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. We are to build each other up and use our God given gifts, whom the Holy Spirit is sovereign over, in love to one another. It is not a competition against each other, but a common absolute desire for everyone to love others and the Lord with all our hearts, soul, mind, and strength.

7. Baptism and the Passover Meal

Baptism was a regular practice of ritually washing from uncleanness and a symbol of repentance in Ancient Israel like the Baptism of John. Since we are not Jewish by ethnicity nor culture, this baptism isn’t a requirement for receiving the Holy Spirit, eternal life. For a Greco-Roman cultural Christian or other cultural Christian, baptism is an individual’s choice of conscience to publicly testify to their Baptism of the Holy Spirit through their faith in Jesus as the Son of the Living God, who came down from Heaven, born of the virgin Mary, fully God and fully man, lived a perfect life, died on the cross as the atonement for our sin, and rose again on the 3rd day for our redemption and eternal life with Him in a dynamic, familial relationship in this life and the next. We know Him to be the Uncreated Creator, the Messiah, and the King of the Universe. Baptism is not a pre-requisite to the privileges of church membership nor the Lord’s Supper or Passover Meal, but the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is, for this is eternal life that Jesus gives us freely as a result of our trust in Him.

The Lord’s Supper or the Passover Meal is a symbolic recognition and remembrance of the promise of the New Covenant, God putting His Spirit in us and reigning in our hearts, established by the living sacrifice of the spotless, perfect Lamb of God shedding His blood, His death on the cross, and resurrection from the dead. Our old self is gone, and the new man is on because of this faith and continued trust in Him. During this meal, we also acknowledge the return of our King.

8. The Lord’s Day

As Greco-Roman cultural Christians, historically speaking, who have put their faith in Jesus, we have separated out Sunday, the first day of the week, as the Lord’s Day, and it commemorates the resurrection of Jesus the Christ from the dead. On this Day, we publicly give our hearts in worship and praise to the King of the Universe, our Lord and Savior together and learn, study, and observe the Scriptures like the ancient Bereans to follow Him and obedience to His commandments. We also recognize that we are partakers in the commonwealth of Israel in which we are free to observe the Sabbath and festivals as well.

9. The Day of the Lord and the Last Days

No one knows the hour of the Day of the Lord nor predict it. It will come like a thief in the night, and that Day is not going to be pretty, except for those who have put their faith in Him. Therefore, we keep watch and look up to the heavens awaiting the return of our King in full glory to the earth. The dead will be raised and all the living will be judged in righteousness and faith. Those that have lived a life apart from Christ and righteousness by choice are sent to the place that is apart from Him and righteousness, Hell. Those that have lived a life with Christ and righteousness by choice will be with Him in Heaven. Aborted babies, still born babies, spontaneously aborted humans after conception, the severely retarded, etc. will also be in Heaven, for they never incur guilt before God because they have never sinned. Until then, we continue to live and pursue Christ, put our trust in Him, and love one another not allowing the love for each other and Christ to grow cold and die in embarrassment.

10. Evangelism and Missions

To those who have been given the gift of evangelism and apostleship according to the sovereignty of the Holy Spirit, it has been put on your heart, and we have a system of sending out locally not forgetting those at home, not just our home state and globally making disciples of all nations and preaching the gospel.

We also reach out and connect with other churches encouraging one another in live to our Lord, Savior, and King and one another as the apostles did.

Discipleship is also an individual, familial, and communal pursuit.

Most importantly, we keep this big point in mind: we do not treat each as projects to fix, because we are not God’s project to fix. We are God’s children by right of creation, and He desires to have a familial relationship with Him through truth and grace. Therefore, we treat one another as individuals and equals made in the image of God and bring others into the family of God with a commitment to loving one another as ourselves.

If you have any questions about this Statement of Faith, we will be making articles, videos, giving speeches, and hosting Scriptural conversations that will guide you of how we came to our conclusions. We do not give personal counseling advice.