COLOSSIANS 3:12-15

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. Colossians 3:12-15

OUR FAMILY'S BELIEFS

I have been wanting to sit down and write down some of my family's beliefs so here goes.
1. We believe that our one aim in life and death should be to glorify God and enjoy Him in His Word.
2. We believe the Bible is the infallible, inerrant Word of God inspired by the Holy Spirit, written by man and is without error. God's Word should be our only standard for our faith and daily conduct.
3. We believe in the Triune God. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. He is one, but three persons. It is in our Creator that we put our trust.
4. We believe that the heavens and earth and all that is in them, are the work of God's hands. God governs all their actions so that they will fulfill the purpose for which He created them.
5.We believe God created man in His own image.
6. We believe man willfully sinned against God by Adam and Eve and every descendant after him was conceived and born into sin.
7. We believe we are by nature children of wrath, hostil toward God and under His condemnation. We are prone to evil and liable to eternal death except through the unmerited grace of God. He has given us a Savior, Jesus Christ the Lord.
8. We believe out of God's great love, He has graciously chosen unto Himself a multitude of sinners to deliver us out of our sin and save us unto righteousness.
9. We believe God has redeemed His people unto Himself through Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, and through Christ alone.
10. We believe that Jesus Christ is co-equal with God, though He humbled Himself and became a man, the perfect God-man. He chose to bear the penalty of our sins for His rightousness and has presented us to God the Father as His possession. We are declared holy and righteousness only by His shed blood. We will praise and glory in His grace forever, through no merit of our own, but through the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ, our Savior and Redeemer.
11. We believe Jesus was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, died for the sins of those who would believe, and was raised again from the dead for our justification. He sits at the right hand of the Father making intercession for His people. He is the head of the Church. If Jesus had not been had a spiritual geneology, sin's seed would have been passed to him through His father. Since, God is His Father, sin was not to be found in Him.
12. We believe the redemption Christ purchased for us is effectually applied by the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit who raises us to life and works faith and repentance in us and unites us to Christ. Only through redemption is our hostility removed.
13. We believe having been justified by God for Christ's sake, it is required that we walk in the Spirit and likeness of Jesus Christ. The Spirit's goal is to conform us to the image of Christ. We are sanctified by God for His work.
14. We believe Christ came in grace and will also return in glory to judge the word in righteousness.

This is not an exhaustive list of our beliefs, but it is where we are rooted in God's truth.