Doctrine

We are glad you clicked on “doctrine”. Like you, we think it matters.

We expect our speakers to hold to the Evangelical tradition– affirming the Bible alone, and the Bible in its entirety is the inspired Word of God and is therefore inerrant in the autographs. Furthermore, God is a Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, each an uncreated person, one in essence, equal in power and glory.

So, what do we mean by Grace? Good question– “grace” is an often abused word– right up there with “love”. So here is what we mean by Grace:

• The Grace of God in justification is an unconditional free gift.
• The sole means of receiving the free gift of eternal life is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who died on the cross as our substitute, fully satisfying the requirement for our justification, and was raised bodily from the dead.
• Faith is a personal response, apart from our works, whereby we are persuaded that the finished work of Jesus Christ, His death and resurrection, has delivered us from condemnation and guaranteed our eternal life.
• Justification is the act of God to declare us righteous when we believe in Jesus Christ alone.
• Assurance of justification is the birthright of every believer from the moment of faith in Jesus Christ, and is founded upon the testimony of God in His written Word.
• Spiritual growth, which is distinct from justification, is God’s expectation for every believer; this growth, however, is not necessarily manifested uniformly in every believer.
• The Gospel of Grace should always be presented with such clarity and simplicity that no impression is left that justification requires any step, response, or action in addition to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

We are saved by grace, grow by grace, kept secure by grace.