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His Place Cathedral of Faith’s Foundation
We believe God desires a deep and intimate love relationship with us, and that this invitation to friendship with God is possible through Jesus Christ. Jesus perfectly reveals the Father as the One who from the very beginning created us to be with Him, and who sent His Son to shatter sin’s barrier between sinful humanity and a perfectly sinless God. Through Jesus’ life of obedience, His death on our behalf, and His resurrection from the dead, a way is made for us to be reunited with the One who made us. Filled with His Spirit and blessed with the gifts of the Spirit, our lives overflow with the very life of God.
The Bible
The Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, are the inspired Word of God without error in the original writings, and are the complete revelation of His will for the salvation of men, and the divine and final authority for all Christian faith and life.
God
There is one God, Creator of all things, infinitely perfect, and eternally existing in three manifestations: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ is true God and true man, having been conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He died on the cross, the complete and final sacrifice for our sins according to the Scriptures. Further, He arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven, where, at the right hand of the Majesty on High, He is now our High Priest and Advocate.
The Holy Spirit
The ministry of the Holy Spirit is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ and during this age, to convict men of sin, regenerate the believing sinner, indwell, guide, instruct, and empower the believer for godly living and service.
Man
Man was created in the image of God but fell into sin and is therefore lost, and only through regeneration by the Holy Spirit can salvation and spiritual life be obtained.
Salvation
The shed blood of Jesus Christ and His resurrection provide the only ground for justification and salvation for all who believe, and only such as receive Jesus Christ by faith are born of the Holy Spirit and thus become children of God.
Baptism and Communion
Water baptism in the name of Jesus by immersion soon after accepting Christ as personal Savior, is a testimony of death to sin and resurrection to a new life. The Lord's Supper is a memorial service setting forth in sacred and symbolic manner the death of the Lord Jesus Christ; all true believers and only believers should share in it.
About Christian Living
As Christians we are to love God and others. We should live a holy life inwardly and outwardly, and worship God joyfully. The supernatural gifts of the Spirit, including healing, are for the church today.
The Church
The Church is the assembly of the saints in the world, those who are integrated and unified by God’s Spirit in a dynamic event in which the love of God creates, gathers, and continuously re-creates God’s people. The Church’s call is to witness to the redeeming and reconciling love of God for all persons, a love that promises to heal brokenness and give life. In this assembly of the saints, the Gospel is preached purely (e.g., as the unconditional love of God for the ungodly) and baptism and the Lord’s Supper are administered rightly (as divinely instituted signs that proclaim God’s love for all persons). The Word of God is offered in the Church as a living address which invades us from the inside, calling for radical change and creating new life, new values, and new commitment.
Afterlife
We believe that the reality of the resurrection means that death is not the end. Though all people will die, this is not the final chapter of humanity’s existence. Hope has not been contained by the grave, and Jesus Christ promises eternal life with God for those whom He confesses before the Father. We believe that those who receive God’s grace will enjoy life with God forever. We believe God desires ultimately and graciously to restore all people and all created realities (the physical and spiritual cosmos) to Himself. But the “impossible possibility” is that some will refuse God’s liberating love, and by this refusal find themselves separated from God for all eternity. When Jesus returns for His bride, the Church, the consummation of this kingdom and new life with God will occur.
Good News!
We believe that God is real and relevant to the concerns of this life; that God is personal and gives meaning to all human endeavors; that God is patiently, wonderfully, and unconditionally loving, longing to free us from sin so that we might walk in the cool of the evening in the garden with a God who not only loves us but is fond of us.
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