Our Beliefs

This short statement is more than a creed, it is a celebration of new life given by God that we cherish and live by. Our faith defines us and our faith inspires us.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever
Hebrews 13.8

We believe in Jesus Christ!
    We received Him as our Savior;
We worship Him as Lord; and
    We await His promised return.

We worship Him with many titles because no single attribution is sufficient to describe His presence, power, promise, and personality. Therefore we call Him:

Savior and Lord
  Son of God and Son of Man
    Lamb of God and Good Shepherd
      King of Kings and Prince of Peace
        Our Ransom and Redeemer
          Healer and Deliverer
            Suffering Servant and Mighty God.

We recognize that Jesus exceeds our attempts to describe Him because while He was simply a man He was also nothing less than wholly God. This most wonderful of mysteries is not intended to confuse us; it is intended to compel us to bow before an awesome God who would cross the frontier of our sin and brokenness to reconcile, redeem, and restore us to Himself.

In Jesus we see the Creator who has become a Creature
  The One in whom all things hold together and
    The One by Whom and for Whom we were made.
In Jesus we behold the face of God and learn that God is a Father
  Who freely gives up His one and only Son so that
    He might adopt and endow countless more as His own children.
In Jesus we recognize that all the promises of God find their fulfillment in Him.
  Therefore we regard the Bible, the written Word, to be the completely
    trustworthy testimony, without error, to the Living Word, Jesus.
In Jesus we witness the power of God
  That heals the sick
    That breaks down strongholds of evil
      That delivers the afflicted.

Through Jesus we can enjoy lives filled, flooded, and baptized with the living water of the Holy Spirit, given by the Father through the Son
  to advocate, counsel, comfort, assure, anoint, empower, and gift
    every life surrendered to Him.
Through Jesus, God assures and the Spirit testifies
  that we are His children in life and through death
    unto the forever life with Him that we long and live for.

© Mark Slomka 2006
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* For a more complete statement of faith please see "What Does the Foursquare Church Believe?" and click here for a brief outline of the core values of our movement.