WHAT WE BELIEVE

 


Our mission is to reach people for Christ and to teach them to live in light of eternity.  Time is short, people are precious, Christ is everything, and eternity in heaven or hell is a reality.


 Our passion is that every believer at Eagle Creek Grace Bible is properly equipped for and personally involved in:

  • Seeking the lost
  • Defending the faith                                                                                                                                                                          
  • Exercising gifts in the body
  • Pursuing holiness
  • Shining the light of Jesus in our community

Our core beliefs

  • Our ultimate purpose: to glorify God
  • Our sole authority: the Word of God
  • Our all-consuming mission: to make disciples
  • Our all-sufficient resource: God’s Holy Spirit

 

STATEMENT OF FAITH

  1. THE BIBLE.  The Word of God, the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, verbally inspired in all parts, and therefore wholly without error as originally given by God (2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Peter 1:21).

  2. THE ONE TRUE GOD.  Existing eternally as three persons:  the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Luke 3:22; Matthew 28:19; 2 Cor. 13:14).

  3. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.  His preexistence and deity (John 1:1-3), incarnation by virgin birth (John 1:14; Matthew 1:18-23), sinless life (Heb. 4:15), substitutionary death (2 Cor. 5:21), bodily resurrection (Luke 24:36-43), ascension into heaven and present ministry (Heb. 4:14-16), coming again (Acts 1:11).

  4. THE HOLY SPIRIT.  His personality (John 16:7-15), His deity (Acts 5:3-4), and His work in each believer:  baptism and indwelling at the moment of regeneration (1 Cor. 12:13; Rom. 8:9), filling (Eph. 5:18) to empower for Christian life and service (Eph. 3:16; Acts 1:8; Gal. 5:22-23).

  5. MAN.  His direct creation in the image of God (Gen. 1:26-28), his subsequent fall into sin resulting in spiritual death (Gen. 3:1-24; Rom. 5:12), the necessity of the new birth for his salvation (John 3:3-5).

  6. SALVATION.  A complete and eternal salvation by God’s grace alone received as the gift of God through personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His finished work (Eph. 2:8-9; Titus 3:5-6; 1 Peter 1:18-19).

  7. THE CHURCH.  One True Church, the body and the bride of Christ (Eph. 1:22-23; 5:25-32), composed of all true believers of the present age (1 Cor. 12:12-13); and the organization of its members in local churches for worship, for edification of believers, for worldwide gospel witness, and each local church being autonomous but cooperating in fellowship and work (Eph. 4:11-16).

  8. CHRISTIAN LIFE.  A life of righteousness, good works and separation unto God from the evil ways of the world (Rom. 12:1-2), manifested by speaking the truth (James 5:12), maintaining the sanctity of the home (Eph. 5:22-6:4), settling differences between Christians in accordance with the Word of God (1 Cor.6:1-8), not engaging in carnal strife but showing a Christlike attitude toward all men (Rom. 12:17-21), exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22-23), maintaining a life of prayer (Eph. 6:18; Phil. 4:6), including the privilege, when sick, of calling for the elders of the church to pray and to anoint with oil in the name of the Lord (James 5:13-18).

  9. ORDINANCES.  The Christians should observe the ordinances of our Lord Jesus Christ which are (1)baptism of believers by triune immersion (Matt. 28:19) and (2)the threefold communion service, consisting of the washing of the saints’ feet (John 13:1-17), the Lord’s Supper (1Cor.11:20-22; Jude 12), and the communion of the bread and the cup (1 Cor. 11:23-26).

  10. SATAN.  His existence and personality as the great adversary of God and His people (Rev. 12:1-10), his judgment (John 12:31), and final doom (Rev. 20:10).

  11. SECOND COMING.  The personal, visible, and imminent return of Christ to remove His Church from the earth (1 Thess. 4:16-17) before the tribulation (1 Thess. 1:10; Rev. 3:10), and afterward to descend with the Church to establish His millennial kingdom upon the earth (Rev. 19:11-20:6).

  12. FUTURE LIFE.  The conscious existence of the dead (Phil. 1:21-23; Luke 16:19-31), the resurrection of the body (John 5:28-29), the judgment and reward of believers (Rom. 14:10-12; 2 Cor. 5:10), the judgment  and condemnation of unbelievers (Rev. 20:11-15), the eternal life of the saved (John 3:16), the eternal punishment of the lost (Matt. 25:46; Rev. 20:15).
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