Salt & Light

Sharing the transforming grace of God

Salt & Light’s  Statement of Faith

All Scripture is self-attesting and being Truth is the starting point for all derived truth requiring our unreserved submission in all areas of life. The inerrant Word of God, the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, is a complete and unified witness to God's redemptive grace culminating in the incarnation of the Living Word, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible, uniquely and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, is the supreme and final authority on all matters on which it speaks.

 

We believe in one God, the sovereign Creator and Sustainer of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit who delights in His Glory.

 

Jesus Christ, the living Word became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth. He who is true God became true man united in one Person forever. He lived a sinless life and He died on the cross as a substitutionary atonement for our sins according to the Scriptures. On the third day He arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven, where, at the right hand of the Majesty on High, He now is our High Priest and Mediator.

 

God the Holy Spirit glorifies Christ and applies the redemptive work of Christ to our lives. He personally indwells believers, convicts of sin and draws us to the Savior.  He gives new life to us, comforts, empowers and imparts gifts to us for service. He instructs and guides us into all truth, and seals us for the day of redemption. 

 

Being estranged from God and condemned by our sinfulness, our justification, sanctification and glorification is wholly dependent upon the work of God's free grace. God credits His righteousness to those who put their faith in Christ alone for their salvation, and thereby justifies them in His sight. Only those who are born of the Holy Spirit and accept what Jesus Christ has done on their behalf become children of God and heirs of eternal life.

 

The true Church is composed of all persons who, through saving faith in Jesus Christ and the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit, are united together in the body of Christ. The Church finds her visible, yet imperfect, expression in local congregations where the Word of God is preached in its purity and the sacraments are administered in their integrity; where scriptural discipline is practiced, and where loving fellowship is maintained. For her perfecting, she eagerly awaits the glorious return of her Lord. 

 

Jesus Christ will come again to the earth -- personally, visibly, and bodily -- to judge the living and the dead, and to consummate history and the eternal plan of God.

 

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