OUR BELIEFS
ABOUT OUR BELIEFS
We believe in the historic view of Christianity, that everyone sins against God. Theologians would call this the doctrine of total depravity. This puts us all in the same boat… guilty. We can try to cover up, hide behind or justify our sins, but at the end of the day, they remain. When we live in habitual sin, we live at odds with the One who created us. That won’t work out too well for very long. Why? Because sin separates us from God and cannot go unpunished.
The good news is that God in His mercy and grace doesn’t leave us in our sins without help. He crafted an amazing redemptive plan to send His Son, Jesus, to take our punishment upon Himself by dying on a cross. He then raised Jesus on the third day, providing evidence that His plan had been accomplished. If we believe in Jesus’ death and resurrection, our sins are FORGIVEN and somehow we are put back in right standing with God. The sin that separated us from God is eliminated and we can draw close to the One who created the universe. Instantaneously we can have life and hope.
And that, my friends, is the gospel. We have life and hope because our SINS have been FORGIVEN. It isn’t by anything we have done or earned or discovered. It’s by the Great Substitute. This leads us to a lifelong commitment of loving and serving the One who saved us by His grace.
Believers in the gospel, like us at Sisters Who Stand, spend our lives seeking to know more about Him through His Word and living out His mission as outlined through His commandments.
specific points of belief we hold:
- The divine inspiration and infallibility of the Bible as originally given and its supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct.
- The unity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in the Godhead, identical in Divine nature and character, but varying in roles.
- The universal sinfulness and guilt of humanity since the fall, rendering men and women subject to God’s wrath and condemnation.
- The conception of Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit and his birth by the virgin Mary.
- Redemption from the guilt, penalty and power of sin only through His sacrificial death, as our representative and substitute, of Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God.
- The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
The necessity of the work of the Holy Spirit to make the death of Christ effective in the individual sinner, granting them repentance towards God, and faith in Jesus Christ. - The indwelling and work of the Holy Spirit in the believer.
- The expectation of the personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
- The declaration that all men and women were created by God in His image.
- The Biblical and traditional view of marriage (one man to one woman for life) and birth-gender assignments.
