Faith Statement

• I believe God is real and that there's only one God. I believe this God is the God depicted in the compilation of ancient writings that we know as The Holy Bible.
  
  
  
• I believe every human being needs to personally know God - that discovering who you truly are and your full potential lies in personally knowing God and living with God. If God exists, then God is somebody, not anybody. More than we have a sense of identity, God has an identity.  At the end of the day,  I doubt God will accept whoever's opinion of who God is.  So I believe, whoever you believe when it comes to who God is, make sure that "messenger" is the most credible in all of the line up of religious messengers/icons.
  
  
  
• I believe the compiled ancient writings in the Bible are trustworthy and reliable. The history recorded in the books compiled in the Bible is proven to be accurate and consistent in comparison to other major historic texts that history scholars depend on.  The Gospels and New Testament books alone stand head and shoulders above other historical ancient writings in credibility and dependability because of the short time gap between the events and the recording of them as well as the numerous copies made of them in those times through the present time.  The Bible contains God-inspired writings written/dictated by those who walked closely with God as well as those who were keen historians of their times. Therefore, the writings it contains should be taken seriously as the inspired Word of God and used as a guide for knowing what is right doctrine and what is false.
  
  
  

• I believe God made Himself known to the world through Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the only One who fulfilled all 300-plus prophecies concerning the Christ/Messiah of God made through the ancient Hebrew prophets, whose writings are compiled in the Bible.
  
  
  
• Fulfilling the prophecies spoken, Jesus was born of a virgin, Mary, whose pregnancy with Jesus was foretold to her by an angel of God and divinely empowered by the Spirit of God.  Jesus taught God's Kingdom and performed countless irreproofable miracles, signs, and wonders in His life - His works proving that He is the Christ/Messiah.  Jesus was wrongly and innocently crucified - His shed blood and death taking away the sins of the world.  On the third day, after His burial, Jesus rose from the dead by the power of God's Spirit and was seen by many for a period of about 40 days.  His ascension into heaven was witnessed by about 500. The revealing of Jesus to humanity is purposed by God to bring humanity back into personal relationship with Himself (something that humanity lost in the fall of Adam and Eve into disobedience and sin).  
  
  
  
• Jesus Christ of Nazareth is a part of God in human form.  Therefore, He is equal to God and one with God.  Only through knowing and following Jesus can we know who God really is and have a personal relationship with God. A person who believes in and follows Jesus will have eternal life with God, instead of eternal separation from God and punishment.  Jesus defined eternal life as knowing the real God and Himself, who was sent by God.  Knowing God personally is eternal life because after this temporal life, the only thing that will matter is whether or not you truly knew and know the real God of heaven and earth.
  
  
  
• I believe God is fair and just. I believe those who have not received the opportunity to hear clearly the Gospel of Jesus Christ will be judged by God fairly.  We do not know how He will judge them.  We do know that if someone has clear understanding of what God has done through Jesus Christ, but rejected Jesus Christ, that one will be condemned to eternal separation from God and punishment.
  
  
  
• I believe God is calling for humanity to turn from self-obsessed humanism and self-obsessed religion to follow Jesus Christ, whom He sent.  Through faith in Jesus, we can live freely and rightly with God - concerned no longer with what we can do for ourselves nor what we can do for God.  We simply learn to be with Him and respond to what He is doing and saying. 
  
  
  
• By giving His Spirit freely to those who believes in and follows Jesus, God enables them to live supernaturally and minister to those in need supernaturally through the name of Jesus Christ.  The Holy Spirit is still at work today through followers of Jesus to glorify the name of Jesus and attest to the truth of the Gospel and God's Kingdom with true miracles, signs, and wonders.