Declaration of Belief
The basis of New Word Alive shall be the fundamental truths of Christianity, as revealed in Holy Scripture, including:
- There is one God in three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
- God is sovereign in creation, revelation, redemption and final judgement.
- The Bible, as originally given, is the inspired and infallible Word of God. It is the supreme authority in all matters of belief and behaviour.
- Since the fall, the whole of humankind is sinful and guilty, so that everyone is subject to God's wrath and condemnation.
- The LordJesus Christ, God's incarnate Son, is fully God; he was born of a virgin;
his humanity is real and sinless; he died on the cross, was raised bodily
from death and is now reigning over heaven and earth.
- Sinful
human beings are redeemed from the guilt, penalty and power of sin only
through the sacrificial death once and for all time of their
representative and substitute, Jesus Christ, the only mediator between
them and God.
- Those who
believe in Christ are pardoned all their sins and accepted in God's sight
only because of the righteousness of Christ credited to them; this
justification is God's act of undeserved mercy, received solely by trust
in him and not by their own efforts.
- The Holy
Spirit alone makes the work of Christ effective to individual sinners,
enabling them to turn to God from their sin and to trust in Jesus Christ.
- The Holy
Spirit lives in all those he has regenerated. He makes them increasingly
Christlike in character and behaviour and gives them power for their
witness in the world.
- The one
holy universal church is the Body of Christ, to which all true believers
belong.
- The Lord
Jesus Christ will return in person, to judge everyone, to execute God's
just condemnation on those who have not repented and to receive the
redeemed to eternal glory.
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