Sure Reality Statment of Faith

We believe:
 

• The one true God who lives eternally in three persons – God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
• The love, grace and sovereignty of God in creating, sustaining, ruling, redeeming and judging the universe.
• The divine inspiration and supreme authority of the Holy Bible including the Old and New Testament Scriptures, which are the written Word of God – infallible and fully trustworthy for faith and conduct.
• The dignity of all people made male and female in God’s image to love, be holy and care for creation, yet corrupted by sin, which incurs divine wrath and judgement.
• The incarnation of God in the Lord Jesus Christ as his eternal Son – born of the Virgin Mary; truly divine and truly human, yet without sin.
• The atoning sacrifice of Christ on the cross as dying in our place, paying the price of sin and defeating evil, so reconciling us with God.
• The need for admission to and repentance of sin by every person to come to the knowledge of forgiveness and justification before God.
• The justification of sinners solely by the grace of God through faith in Christ.
• The bodily resurrection of Christ, the first fruits of our resurrection; his ascension to the Father, and his reign and mediation as the only Saviour of the world.
• The ministry of God the Holy Spirit, who leads us to repentance, unites us with Christ through new birth, empowers our discipleship with supernatural endowment and enables our witness.
• The Church as the body of Christ both local and universal, the priesthood of all believers — given life by the Holy Spirit and endowed with the Holy Spirit’s gifts to worship God and proclaim the gospel, promoting justice, peace and love.
• The personal and visible return of Jesus Christ to fulfil the purposes of God, who will raise all people to final judgement, bringing eternal life to the redeemed and eternal condemnation to the lost, and establish a new heaven and new earth.
• The creation of mankind as exclusively male and female and the holy ordination of marriage between one man and one woman.

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