Statement of Faith
Grace Community Bible Church
Adopted January 2004

  1. We believe the Bible is the inspired and inerrant Word of God, the only infallible rule of faith and practice.
  2. We believe there is one God, eternal, self-existing in three persons (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) who have from eternity shared infinite glory and enjoyed loving communion and who are equally worthy of love, honor and adoration.
  3. We believe the Sovereign God, in His all-consuming passion for the glory of His own Name, in order to magnify His grace and demonstrate His great love and mercy, has freely chosen, according to His good pleasure and the counsel of His own will, lost sinners from every nation to be redeemed by the quickening power of the Holy Spirit through the atoning death and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ.
  4. We believe all mankind participated in Adam's fall from his original sinless state and is thus lost in sin and totally helpless.
  5. We believe that God, from eternity, decrees everything that comes to pass, and completely sustains, directs and governs all creatures and all events.
  6. We believe Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary as fully God and fully man, earned righteousness for man by living a sinless life and being obedient to death on a cross as He offered Himself as the once for all, perfect sacrifice that paid the ransom for our sin, bore the wrath of God for us, and reconciled man to God.
  7. We believe that Jesus Christ bodily rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven where He is highly exalted and seated at the right hand of the Father.
  8. We believe those sinners whom the Spirit quickens (regenerates/causes to be born again) come to believe in Christ as Savior by the Word of God, become sons of God, and will persevere to the end.
  9. We believe justification is by faith and through it God forgives the sins of those who believe in Christ and causes the believing ones to be clothed in righteousness (declared righteous) because of Christ's righteousness credited to them, and this is all according to the riches of His grace.
  10. We believe the goal of God's salvation in the life of the Christian is holiness, good works, and service for the glory of God.
  11. We believe at death the Christian's soul passes immediately into the presence of God and the unbeliever's soul is eternally separated from God unto condemnation.
  12. We believe Jesus Christ will return to earth visibly and bodily to consummate history and the eternal plan of God, and that Christ, by His power, shall raise those who have died in Him and shall unite their perfected souls to glorified, spiritual bodies in the likeness of His own, so that those whom He has redeemed might have fullness of joy in His presence forever.
  13. The Gospel of God's salvation in Jesus Christ must be proclaimed to all the world as a witness before Jesus Christ returns.