Statement Of Faith CFC International
1.-We believe in the Scriptures
of the Old and New Testaments, in their original writing, as fully inspired
of God and accept them as the supreme and final authority for faith and
life.
2.-We believe in one God, eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son
and Holy Spirit.
3.-We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Father, conceived by the
Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary and is true God and true man.
4.-We believe that God created man in His own image; that man sinned and
thereby incurred the penalty of sin, which is death physically and
spiritually; that all human beings inherit a sinful nature which issued (in
the case of those who reach moral responsibility) in actual transgression
involving personal guilt.
5.-With regard to sexual behavior, we believe in heterosexual relationships
between a natural man and a natural woman within the confines of lawful
matrimony. Adherence to this stated principle of sexual behavior is an
inherent requirement of membership of CHRISTIAN FAMILY CHURCH.
6.-We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins a substitutionary
sacrifice according to the Scriptures and that all who believe in Him are
justified on the grounds of His shed blood.
7.-We believe in the bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus, His ascension
into Heaven, and His present life as our High Priest and Advocate.
8.-We believe in the personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
9.-We believe that all who repent of their sin and receive the Lord Jesus
Christ by faith are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become
children of God.
10.-We believe in the baptism in the Holy Spirit, empowering and equipping
believers for service, with the accompanying supernatural gifts of the Holy
Spirit; and in fellowship with the Holy Spirit. We believe in the divinely
ordained ministries of the Apostle, Prophet, Teacher, Pastor and Evangelist.
11.-With regard to submission to authority, we believe in the principle of
being in authority because you are under authority. As such, it is
understood that Christian Family Church membership shall be subject to
submission to authority in matters pertaining to church governance, doctrine
and personal behavior.
12.-We believe in the resurrection of both the just and the unjust, the
eternal blessedness of the redeemed, and the eternal banishment of those who
have rejected the offer of salvation.
13.-We believe that the one true Church is the whole company of those who
have been redeemed by Jesus Christ and regenerated by the Holy Spirit; that
the local church on earth should take its character from this concept of the
Church spiritual and therefore that the new birth and personal confession of
Christ are essentials of church membership.
14.-We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ appointed two ordinances: Baptism
in water and the Lord's Supper to be observed as acts of obedience and as
perpetual witnesses to the cardinal facts of the Christian Faith, that
Baptism is the immersion of the believer in water as a confession of
identification with Christ in burial and resurrection and that the Lord's
Supper is the partaking of the emblems symbolic of the Savior's broken body
and shed blood, in remembrance of His sacrificial death, until He comes.
15.-We believe that divine healing was provided for in the Old and New
Testament and is an integral part of the Gospel.
16.-We believe that the Bible teaches that without holiness no man can see
the Lord. We believe in the doctrine of sanctification as a definite, yet
progressive work of grace, commencing at the time of the new birth and
continuing until the consummation of salvation.
17.-We believe in obeying the statement made by Jesus found in Matthew 28
verse 19-20 which is "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations,
baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son and the Holy
Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you, and
lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
18.-The fellowship is open to any further truth, which the Holy Spirit may
illuminate from the Scriptures.