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| Statement of Faith - 2002 |
Hearts for Christ Believes that:
- The only true basis of Christian fellowship is Christ's Agape love, which is greater than any differences people possess and without which we have no right to claim ourselves Christians.
- The worship of God should be intelligent, thus, this ministry is designed with great emphasis upon the teaching of the Word of God.
- The inerrancy of Scripture, the Bible, Old and New Testaments are the inspired, infallible Word of God.
- God is eternally existent in three distinct persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
- God is the personal, transcendent, and the sovereign Creator of all things.
- The Lord Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human, born of a virgin, who lived a sinless life, provided for the atonement of our sins by His substitutionary death on the cross, was bodily raised from the dead, ascended back to the right hand of the Father, and ever lives to make intercession for us.
- There will be a personal, visible, pre-millennial second coming of Jesus Christ to the earth, and that he will return with His saints and set up a kingdom of which there will be no end.
- After Jesus ascended to Heaven, He poured out His Holy Spirit on the believers in Jerusalem, enabling them to fulfill His command to preach the Gospel to the entire world, and obligation shared by all believers today.
- All people are, by nature, separated from God and responsible for their own sin, but that salvation, redemption, and forgiveness are freely offered to all by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. When a person repents of sin and accepts Jesus Christ as personal Savior and Lord, trusting Him to save, that person is immediately born again and sealed by the Holy Spirit. All his/her sins are forgiven, and that person becomes a child of God.
- There are gifts of the Holy Spirit mentioned in the Scriptures, valid for today, to be exercised within the scriptural guidelines. We are to covet the best gifts, seeking to exercise them in love for the purpose of edification, exhortation, and comfort, but we also need to realize that love is more important than the most spectacular gifts, and without love all exercise of spiritual gifts are worthless.
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