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Our Beliefs
We at Spirit of the Cross Church believe that Christianity is the revelation
of God in Jesus Christ and is the religion set forth in the Holy Scriptures.
Jesus Christ is foretold in the Old Testament, presented in the New Testament,
and is to be proclaimed by the Christian church in every age and in every
land.Our faith is based upon the principles outlined in the historic Apostles
Creed and Nicene Creed.
At Spirit of the Cross Church, we believe:
In one triune God, omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient, of one substance
and of three persons: God, our Parent-Creator; Jesus Christ, the only
begotten Son of God, God in flesh, human; and the Holy Spirit, God as
our Sustainer.
The Bible is the divinely inspired Word of God, showing forth God to every
person through the law and the prophets, and finally and ultimately on
earth in the being of Jesus Christ.
That Jesus the Christ, historically recorded as living some 2000 years
before this writing, is God incarnate, of human birth, fully God and fully
human, and that by being one with God, Jesus has demonstrated once and
forever that all people are likewise the children of God, being spiritually
made in God’s image.
That the Holy Spirit is God, making known God’s love and interest
to all people. The Holy Spirit is God, available to and working through
all who are willing to place their welfare in God’s keeping.
Every person is justified by grace to God through faith in Jesus Christ.
We are saved from loneliness, despair, and degradation through God’s
gift of grace, as was declared by our Savior. Such grace is not earned,
but is a pure gift from a God of pure love.
We further commend the community of the faithful to a life of prayer,
to seek genuine forgiveness for unkind, thoughtless and unloving acts;
and to a committed life of Christian service.
The Church serves to bring all people to God through Christ. To this end,
it shall arrange for the regular services of worship, prayer, interpretation
of the Scriptures, and edification through the teaching and preaching
of the Word.
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