AMBASSADORS OF CHRIST Core Beliefs

Bible

We believe the Bible to be the inspired and inerrant Word of God.

• That the 66 books of the Old and New Testament were inspired by the Spirit of God as originally written
• That the Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and conduct · 2 Timothy 3:16

God

We believe in one God, Creator of all, holy, sovereign, eternal, existing in three equal Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

• God is spirit, all-knowing, and exists independent of the created world
• God is impartial and, as such, he rules with justice and grace

Jesus Christ

We believe in the absolute and essential deity of our Lord Jesus Christ

• In His eternal existence, with the Father, and the Holy Spirit in pre-incarnate glory
• In His work of creation, in His virgin birth, sinless life, death, and bodily resurrection
• In His propitiation for the sins of the world
  • propitiation--Jesus's death turned away God's anger for our sins and took the judgment upon himself
• In His triumphant ascension, mediatorial ministry and personal return

The Holy Spirit

We believe in the absolute and essential deity, and in the personality of the Holy Spirit

• Who convinces of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment
• Who regenerates, indwells, seals, sanctifies, illuminates, and comforts those who believe in Jesus Christ
• Who baptizes believers at conversion into the Body of Christ and bestows upon them His gifts sovereignly as He wills and fills those yielded to Him

Mankind

We believe that man was divinely created in the image of God as male and female.

• That by the sin of disobedience Adam and Eve introduced sin to all mankind (Genesis 3)
• That all his posterity inherited spiritual depravity and defilement (Romans 3:23)
• That all men, therefore, are guilty before God and condemned to physical and spiritual death (Romans 5:12)

Salvation

We believe that salvation is by the sovereign grace of God through faith

• That by the Father, Christ voluntarily offered to suffer a propitiatory death for all the world
• That justification is by faith alone in the all-sufficient sacrifice and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ
• That those whom God has effectually called shall be divinely preserved and ultimately perfected in the image of the Lord

The Church

The Church is God's plan for this age

• Is "the Body of Christ" in which all nations are reconciled as one 
• Is the place in which the Holy Spirit dwells and brings spiritual healing to the broken spirits
• Is God's vehicle to bring salvation to all who believe