Our Beliefs
We Believe...
These are the core beliefs of Grace Bible Church, based on the truths taught in the Bible. All our teaching and ministry come from these biblical doctrines.
We believe in God the Father, the first person of the Trinity, who is an intelligent, spiritual and person being, the Creator and sovereign ruler of all that exists, perfect in holiness, infinite in wisdom, measureless in power; the He concerns himself mercifully in the affairs of all people, tha He is truly Father to those who become His children through faith in Jesus Christ, that He hears and answers their prayers, and that He saves from Hell and eternal death all who come to Him through Jesus Christ.
Genesis 17:1; Psalm 10:17; John 3:16; Romans 11:33; Titus 1:2; Revelation 4:8
We believe in the absolute deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the eternal Son of God, the second person in the Trinity; in His virgin birth; in His perfect sinless humanity; in His vicarious death through the shedding of His blodd for the remission of sins; in His visible, bodily resurrection and ascension; in His present high priestly ministry in heaven for all believers; as being the only mediator between God and man; and His second coming in the air for His saints and to the earth with His saints.
Matthew 1:20-23; Luke 24:1-3, 6; John 1:1, 14; Acts 1:9-11; 2 Corinthians 5:21;
1 Thessalonians 4:14-18; 1 Timothy 2:5; Hebrews 9:26; Revelation 19:6-14
We believe in the absolute deity of the Holy Spirit, who is the third person of the Trinity, possessing intelligence, will and emotions. His purpose is to exalt Christ, convict the world of sin, righteousness and judgement; to call men to the Savior and effect regeneration, to baptize all true believers into the body of Christ at the moment of salvation, permanently indwelling, sealing, and thus securing them unto the day of redemption. He sanctifies, bestows spiritual gifts, guides, teaches, enlightens, empowers, and cultivates Christian character in the believer and that is the privilege and duty of all born-again believersto be continually filled by the Holy Spirit.
John 3:5; 14:16, 17, 26; 16:7-11; Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 4:30
We believe that the Bible (the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments) is the verbal, plenary, inspired Word of God (in the original writings) thus it is inerrant, infallible, and the supreme and final authority in all matters of Faith, Doctrine, Practice, Creeds, and Conduct and that the Holy Spirit is the vital element in the Revelation, Illumination, and Operation of the Holy Scriptures in our lives.
John 16:12-13; 2 Timothy 3:15-17; 2 Peter 1:19-21; Hebrews 1:1
We believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned and thereby incurred both physical and spiritual death which is eternal separation from God. All human beings are born with a sinful nature, and are sinners in thought, word, and deed, absolutely guilty and lost and incapable of saving themselves by their own works, being dead in trespasses and sins and are in need of being born again.
Genesis 2, 3; John 3:3,7; Romans 3:23; 5:12; 6:23; Ephesians 2:1
We believe that salvation is a gift of God in grace, wholly apart from any human merit and is received by man through the personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ whose blood was shed on the cross for the forgiveness of our sins. All believers, once saved, are sealed and kept secure in Christ forever.
Ephesians 1:7; 2:8-9
We believe in "that blessed hope" which is the literal, bodily, personal, pre-tribulational and imminent coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in the air to catch away His Church; also in the literal, bodily, personal, visible, glorious, pre-millennial return of Christ to the earth to judge the living nations and to set up His kingdom.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Daniel 9:24-27; Revelation 20
We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men accomplished by means of two resurrections - the resurrection of believers to everlasting life (at the Rapture), and the second, in the resurrection of the lost to everlasting, conscious punishment (following the millennium).
Revelation 4:1; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Daniel 9:24-27; Revelation 20:1-6, 7-15
