Lifeline
Children’s Services
Statement
of Faith & Partnership Acknowledgment
God (Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit)
- We
believe in God, eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit. (Matthew 3:16-17; Matthew 28:19; John 1:1-51; John 10:30)
- We
believe that Jesus Christ is the one and only begotten Son of God,
conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary and is fully God and
fully man. (Mark 14:61; Luke 3:22; John 8:58; Colossians 2:8-9;
Philippians 2:5-11)
- We
believe in the physical resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in
His ascension into Heaven, and His present life there for us as our High
Priest and Advocate providing a sufficiency for body, soul, and spirit for
the believers. (Acts 3:15; 1 Corinthians 15:12-32; Hebrews 4:14-16)
Salvation & The Work of Christ
- We
believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the
Scriptures as a representative, substitutionary, and complete sacrifice;
and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed
blood. (Isaiah 53:46; 2 Corinthians 5:17-21; Ephesians 5:1-2; 1 Peter
2:24, 3:18)
- We
believe that all who receive by grace, through faith, the Lord Jesus
Christ are born of the Holy Spirit and become children of God, and there
is no other way of salvation but through Jesus. (John 1:12-14, 3:3, 5:24,
14:6; Galatians 4:4-7; Ephesians 2:8-10)
- We
believe in the personal, visible, and second coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, at a time unknown to us but for which we are eagerly anticipating.
(Matthew 24:42-44; John 14:1-3; I Thessalonians 4:16-17; Hebrews 9:28; 2
Peter 3:10)
- We
believe that the redeemed will have eternal life with Christ Jesus while
the lost will be separated from God in everlasting punishment. (Matthew
25:31-46; Acts 17:30-32; 1 Corinthians 15:52; 1 Thessalonians 4:16)
- We
believe that every believer is sanctified through the work of the Holy
Spirit to pursue personal holiness. (1 Thessalonians 4:3-9; 1 Peter 15-16;
1 Corinthians 6:9-13; Ephesians 5:4-5)
Humanity
- We
believe that man was created in the image of God; that he sinned and
incurred not only physical death, but also spiritual death which is
separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful
nature, and become sinners in thought, word, and deed. (Genesis 1:26-27,
8:21; Psalm 51:5; Ecclesiastes 7:20; Colossians 3:6-10; Ephesians 2:2-3)
- We
believe that marriage is a sacred covenant before God and man between one
man and one woman instituted by God from the beginning of Creation.
(Genesis 2:18-24; Matthew 19:4-6; 1 Corinthians 7:1-16; Hebrews 13:4-7)
- We
believe that God is the creator of all life, and that every person is
created in His image, and at the moment of conception, a new human life is
created with a sovereignly-ordained sex of either male or female. (Genesis
1:27; Psalm 139:13-16; Jeremiah 1:5; Acts 17:25)
The Word of God
12. We
believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the Word of God,
written by men under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. The Word is inerrant,
infallible, and sufficient in all manners of conduct. (Deuteronomy 6:4-6;
Proverbs 30:5-6; 2 Timothy 3:15-17; 1 Peter 1:23-25)
The Work of Church
13. We
believe that the Great Commission was given by the Lord to His church to
disciple the world, and that sharing the Gospel is the great mission of the
Church. (Matthew 28:16-20; Mark 16:15; John 20:21; Acts 1:8)