Christ the King Christian Fellowship

What we believe

The Scriptures
We believe all sixty-six books of the Bible to be true and inerrant it is God’s self-disclosure to mankind. All books were written by different men, with different styles and personalities. We believe these men supernaturally moved along by the Holy Spirit to record God’s very words. We believe that the holy scriptures can be trusted as our final and sufficient authority for all of life (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21).

The Triune God
We believe in the one living and true God, eternally (John 17:3) existing in perfect harmony and unity as three equally and fully divine Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19-20). Each member of the Godhead, is distinct but the same in nature, attributes, and being, and all are worthy of glory and honor and obedience (John 1:1-4; Acts 5:3-4).

God the Father
We believe God the Father created all things in six literal days for His glory according to His own will (Revelation 4:11), through His Son, Jesus Christ. He upholds all things by the Word of His power and grace, exercising sovereign headship over all creation, providence, and redemption (Colossians 1:17, Hebrews 1:3).

God the Son
We believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. Because of his great passion for mankind and his obedience to the Father he walked the earth and became flesh (John 1:1, 14, 18). Conceived through the miraculous work of the Holy Spirit, He was born of the virgin Mary. He, being fully God and fully man (John 14:8-9), lived a sinless life and sacrificed his life for all mankind. He rose from the dead three days later and ascended into heaven, where he is at the right hand of the Father. He is now Head of His Body the Church, the only Savior and Mediator between God and man, and will return to earth in power and glory to consummate His redemptive mission (1 Timothy 3:16).

God the Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit, glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ during this age. He convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. He draws sinners to repentance and faith. He brings about salvation to the new believer, and connects them with true union with Christ and the Body of Christ. The Holy Spirit sanctifies, seals, fills, guides, instructs, comforts, equips, empowers, permanently indwells at salvation, and bestows spiritual gifts to the believer for Christ-like living and service (John 16:8; 13:15; Titus 3:5; Ephesians 1:22; 4:11-12; Romans 8:9-17; 12:4-8; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 12:4-5, 11-13, 19; Galatians 5:25; Hebrews 2:1-4; 2 Corinthians 12:12).

Mankind
We believe that God created mankind—male and female—in His own image. He created mankind to glorify Himself and enjoy His fellowship. Man was tempted by Satan, bringing sin, death and condemnation to all mankind. We were once enemies with God and lost in our sins but through the grace and mercy of God we are able to find security and salvation in the one and only Jesus Christ.(Genesis 3:1-6; Romans 3:10-19; Romans 1:18, 32).

Salvation
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, as the substitutionary atonement in our place, and that salvation is found in none other than Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ’s death on the cross was the only and complete payment for sins, fully satisfying God’s righteous wrath, for each person that turns from sin in repentance and places their faith in Christ alone by grace alone. At the point of salvation each person is made a new creation by the Holy Spirit, declared righteous before God, and secured as an adopted child of God forever. (Romans 8:37-39; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Corinthians 12:13).

The Church
Upon placing one’s faith in Jesus Christ as Savior, the believer is made part of the Body of Christ. All believers are apart of the universal Church, of which Jesus Christ is the Head. The Scriptures command believers to gather locally in order to devote themselves to worship, prayer, teaching of the Word, fellowship, the ordinances of baptism and communion, service to the local body through the development and use of talents and spiritual gifts, and outreach to the world to make disciples (Ephesians 1:22-23; Acts 2:42-46;
1 Corinthians 14:26; Matthew 28:18-20).

Baptism and Communion
We believe that Christian baptism is a public declaration of the believer’s salvation in Christ, identifying with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection symbolized by immersion in water. The Lord’s Supper is the united commemoration by believers of Christ’s death until He comes and should be preceded by a careful self-examination (Acts 2:41; Romans 6:3-6; 1 Corinthians 11:20-29).

Things to Come
We believe and await the glorious, return of the Lord Jesus Christ. The blessed hope of His return has vital bearing on the personal life, service, and mission of the believer (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the lost. The lost will be raised to judgment and experience eternal wrath in hell. The saved will be raised to eternal joy in the new heaven and new earth in the manifested presence of God (Acts 1:3, 9; Hebrews 7:25-26).