JCCH Statement of Faith To Publications / Articles - JCCH Statement of Faith

Posted 8/18/16

We Believe:

The Bible is the inspired and infallible Word of God and constitutes His compelled and final revelation to men. The Bible, in its original autograph, is without error in whole and in part, including theological concepts as well as geographical and historical details.

• All Scripture is God-breathed. (Timothy 3:16)
• Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. (Mark 13:31)

God has existed from all eternity in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ was God come in human flesh being fully God and fully man, except without sin.

• For there are three that hear witness in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. (I John 5:7)
• Christ Jesus who being in very nature God. (Philippians 2:5-6)
• He committed no sin... (1 Peter 2:22)

All men without Christ are in violation of God's righteous requirements and His holy character both by nature and act, and are, therefore, under His wrath and just condemnation.

• For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. (Rom. 3:23)
• For the wages of sin is death. (Romans 6:25)

Marriage was ordained by God as a lifelong, exclusive, covenant relationship between one man and one woman.

• Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female and said, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh”?So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate. (Matthew 19:4-6)

The central purpose of the coming of Jesus Christ was to pay the penalty for man's sin through His substitutionary death on the cross, the successful accomplishment of which was attested to by His subsequent visible, bodily resurrection.

• He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.

(Romans 4:25)

Salvation is offered as a gift, free to the sinner. This gift must be responded to in individual faith, not trusting in any personal works whatsoever, but in the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ alone.

• For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works that no one should boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9)

Jesus is coming again to take His own with Him.

• And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

(Mark 13:26)

• Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. (Revelation 1:7)