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Doctrinal Statement
AWANA DOCTRINAL STATEMENT
THE BIBLE
We believe that the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, is supernaturally
inspired, so that it is inerrant in the original manuscripts and preserved
by God in its verbal and plenary inspiration, so that it is a divinely
authoritative standard for every age and every life. (Matthew 5:18; 1
Corinthians 2:13; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:21)
GOD
We believe in one God that eternally exists and reveals Himself in three
persons - Father, Son, Holy Spirit - having each the same nature,
attributes and perfections, worthy of the same worship and confidence.
(Matthew 3:16-17, 28:19; John 1:1-2, 14, 10:30,
14:15-17; 1 Corinthians 8:6; 2 Corinthians 13:14)
We believe in God as absolute and sole Creator and Sustainer of the
universe, and that creation was by divine command, from nothing and not
through an evolutionary process. (John 1:3, 10; Acts 17:24-25; Genesis 1:1)
We believe that God, by His sovereign choice and out of love for men, sent
Christ into the world to save sinners. (John 3:16;
1 Timothy 1:15; 1 John 4:14)
GOD THE SON
We believe that Jesus Christ was fully God in the flesh and fully man, that
He was born of a virgin and that He lived a sinless life, in which He
taught and performed mighty works and wonders and signs exactly as revealed
in the four gospels. We believe that He was crucified, shed His blood, died
to pay the penalty for our sins and was raised bodily from the dead on the
third day. Forty days later He ascended to the Father's right hand where He
is Head of the Church and intercedes for believers. From there He is coming
again personally, bodily and visibly to this earth to set up His millennial
kingdom. (Isaiah 7:14, 9:6; Hebrews 1:1-2, 7:25; Luke 1:30-35; Ephesians
4:8; John 1:1-5, 10-14, 14:3; Colossians 2:9;
1 Corinthians 15:3-4; Acts 1:3,11; Revelation 20:4)
GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT
We believe that the Holy Spirit is a person and is God, possessing all the
divine attributes. He convicts of sin, regenerates, indwells, baptizes and
seals all believers at the moment of their salvation, filling them in
response to yieldedness with the goal of conforming them to the image of
Christ. (John 3:5, 16:7-11; Acts 5:3-4; Ephesians 1:13, 4:30, 5:18; 1
Corinthians 6:19, 12:13)
MAN
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that
in Adam's sin the race fell, inherited a sinful nature and became alienated
from God. We believe that all men are morally corrupt, and of themselves
utterly unable to remedy their lost condition. (Genesis 1:26-27; Romans
1:18, 3:23, 5:12; Ephesians 2:1-3, 12)
SALVATION
We believe that salvation is a gift of God and is received by man through
personal faith in Jesus Christ and His sacrifice for sin. We believe that
man is justified by grace through faith apart from works and that all true
believers, once saved, are kept secure in Christ forever. (Acts 13:38-39;
Romans 4:5, 6:23, 8:1, 38-39; John 10:27-29; Ephesians 2:8-9)
THE CHURCH
We believe that the true Church is composed of all persons who are
regenerated by the Holy Spirit through saving faith in Jesus Christ; that
they are united together in the body of Christ of which He is Lord and
Head; and are commissioned for the God-given tasks of worshiping,
fellowshipping, teaching, evangelizing and exercising the spiritual gifts.
(Acts 2:42,47; Romans 12:5; Ephesians 1:22-23, 5:23-24; 1 Corinthians
12:12-14; 2 Corinthians 11:2)
We believe that the establishment and continuance of the local church is
clearly taught in the New Testament Scriptures. (Acts 14:27, 20:17, 28-32;
1 Timothy 3:1-13; Titus 1:5-11)
We believe that the local church is autonomous and free of any external
authority or control. (Acts 13:1-4, 20:28; Romans 16:1, 4; 1 Corinthians
3:9, 16, 5:4-7, 13; 1 Peter 5:1-4)
THE ORDINANCES
We believe the ordinances for the believer are water baptism by immersion
and the Lord's supper as a memorial. They are, however, not to be regarded
as a means of salvation. But both of which are an evidence of obedience and
fellowship with the Lord. (Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 2:38, 41, 8:12, 35-38;
Luke 22:19-20; 1 Corinthians 11:23-29)
THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
We believe that a Christian should walk in holiness and not after the
flesh, with the goal of being conformed to the image of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ. As a new creation, walking in the Spirit, the Christian
learns to grow in faith, in obedience to Scripture, in prayer, in
fellowship with the saints and in a life of service. We believe that the
Christian will stand before the judgment seat of Christ to have his life
evaluated according to his deeds. (Galatians 5:16-26; Hebrews 10:25;
Ephesians 4:20-24; Hebrews 11:6, 12:1-2; John 17:17; Ephesians 6:18; Romans
8:29; 2 Corinthians 5:10; 1 Corinthians 3:10-15)
THE SECOND COMING
We believe in the personal, premillennial and imminent coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the dead, of the
believer to everlasting glory and the unbeliever to judgment and
everlasting conscious punishment. (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 1 Corinthians
15:51-52; Titus 2:11-13; John 14:1-6; Matthew 25:46; Revelation 20:11-15; 2
Peter 3:10)
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