Our Beliefs

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We believe in one true, holy, and living God, Eternal Spirit, who is Creator, Sovereign and Preserver of all things visible and invisible. God is infinite in power, wisdom, justice, goodness, and love, and rules with gracious regard for the well-being and salvation of all humanity, to the glory of his name. We believe the one God reveals himself as the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, distinct but inseparable, eternally one in essence and power.

We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, both fully human and fully God, in whom the divine and human natures are perfectly and inseparably united. He is the eternal Word made flesh, the begotten Son of the Father, born of the Virgin Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit. As ministering servant, he lived, suffered, and died on the cross. He was buried, rose from the dead and ascended into heaven to be with the Father, and will one day return. He is eternal Savior and mediator who intercedes for us, and by him all humanity will be judged.

We believe in the Holy Spirit who proceeds from and is one being with the Father and the Son. He convinces the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. He leads humanity through faithful response to the gospel into the fellowship of the church. He comforts, sustains, and empowers the faithful and guides them into all truth.

We believe the Christian Church is the community of all true believers under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. The Word of God is preached by persons divinely called, and the sacraments are duly administered according to Christ’s own appointment. Under the discipline of the Holy Spirit the Church exists for the maintenance of worship, the edification of believers and the redemption of the world.

We believe that the Bible is the inspired, inerrant, infallible Word of God received as the Old and New Testaments. We believe in the authority of the Holy Scriptures. Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit the Holy Bible reveals God to humanity and draws us into a personal relationship with him. The Bible is to be received through the Holy Spirit as the true guide for faith and practice.

We believe that the Sacraments of Baptism and Holy Communion (The Lord’s Supper) are ordained by Jesus Christ as symbols and pledges of the Christian’s profession and of God’s love toward us. They are means of grace by which God works invisibly in us, quickening, strengthening, and confirming our faith in him. Two sacraments are ordained by Christ our Lord, namely Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Baptism signifies entrance into the household of faith and is a symbol of repentance and inner cleansing from sin, a representation of the new birth in Jesus Christ and a mark of Christian discipleship. The Lord’s Supper is a representation of our redemption, a memorial of the suffering and death of Christ, and a token of love and union which Christians have with Christ and with one another.

(Adapted from The Transitional Book of Doctrines and Discipline of the Global Methodist Church, Pages 13-14)