“To make a significant impact in varying degrees on the spiritual, emotional and/or psychological health of everyone I come in contact with.”
The Trinity
We believe that the Godhead eternally exists in three persons-the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit-that these three are one God, having precisely the same nature and attributes and worthy of precisely the same worship, confidence, and obedience. In addition, we believe in the full deity and full humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ. The two natures are united in one person without commingling or confusion eternally.
The spiritual lostness of the human race
We believe that man, having a human nature which derives from two historical persons, male and female, was originally created in the image and after the likeness of God and that he fell through sin, and, as a consequence, lost his spiritual life, becoming dead in trespasses and sins, and that he became subject to the power of the devil. We also believe that this spiritual death, or total depravity of human nature, has been transmitted to the entire human race of man, the Man Christ Jesus alone being excepted; and from that time on every child of Adam is born into the world with a nature which not only possesses no spark of divine life, but is essentially and unchangeably corrupt apart from divine grace.
Salvation by faith alone in Christ alone
The substitutionary death of Jesus Christ and his bodily resurrection provide the only ground for justification, forgiveness, and salvation for all who believe. Only those who trust in Him alone are born of the Holy Spirit and are true members of the Church; only they will spend eternity with Christ.
The physical return of Christ
We believe that Christ will physically return to earth in the same way in which he ascended into heaven. This is the blessed hope of all who place their faith in Christ.
The authority and inerrancy of Scripture
Holy Scripture, being God's own Word, written by men prepared and superintended by His Spirit, is of infallible divine authority in all matters upon which it touches; it is to be believed, as God's instruction, in all that it affirms; obeyed, as God's command, in all that it requires; embraced, as God's pledge, in all that it promises.
The Holy Spirit, Scripture's divine Author, both authenticates it to us by His inward witness and opens our minds to understand its meaning. Being wholly and verbally God-given, Scripture is without error or fault in all its teaching, no less in what it states about God's acts in creation, about the events of world history, and about its own literary origins under God, than in its witness to God's saving grace in individual lives.
Counseling
Ministry to persons acknowledges the complexity of humans as physical, social, psychological, and spiritual beings. The ultimate goal of Christian counseling is to help others move to personal wholeness, interpersonal competence, mental stability, and spiritual maturity.
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