1: "We at Quaker Road Church profess the historic Christian faith in God, incarnate in Jesus Christ for our salvation.
2:"We believe in the divine inspiration and authority of the scriptures. By this we mean a miraculous guidance of the Holy Spirit in the original writings, so the result is the very Word of God. Also that God has exercised care and providence through the ages in preserving the written Word. The Bible today though not word for word ( Or all Bibles would be in Hebrew, Greek or Aramaic ) is a reliable rendition of the originals and will survive all serious textual criticism including all the major Tenants of Faith listed below. Also, that the Scripture contains all things necessary for Salvation.
3: "We believe in one God revealed as existing in three equal persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We believe in the Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe in the Holy Spirit as a Divine Person, a personality as distinct as the Father and the Son.
(John 1:1-4, John 15:26, Matthew 28:19)
4: "We believe as sin entered the world so also death, and all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God. That this, our sin is responsible for our fallen human condition and of all evil and is of our own doing not of the will of God. Because of sin we are separated from God in need of Gods mercy and forgiveness and his plan of reconciliation
(Romans 3:23)
5: "We believe for this reason the Jesus Christ the Son of the only true God Came to this Earth, Born of the Virgin Mary, Herself human in all ways.
(Matthew 1:20)
6: "We believe the Son, who was one substance with the Father vary and eternal God took on man's physical nature, Tempted in all things, yet without sin. For the cause of Love Jesus came to this world offering his life a ransom for all.
(John 10:30, 1 Timothy 2:6, Hebrews 4:15)
7: "We believe in the life, ministry and suffering of Jesus Christ as told to us in the Scriptures.
8: "We believe in the death of Jesus Christ on the Cross, as a true substitute, and that His death was sufficient sacrifice, not only for original guilt, but also for all actual sins of the world. That no other work of man can substitute or add to Gods redemption plan though His Son Jesus Christ.
(Ephesians 2:8,9)
9: "We believe in His Bodily resurrection from the dead as witnessed by many people.
(1 Corinthians 15:6)
10: "We believe that those who receive Christ by faith have Salvation and a new life from God given to them.
(John 1:12,13)
11: "We believe that people are justified by faith alone and not by Works, and are counted as righteous before God only by merit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ imputed to them.
(Galatians 3:11, Ephesians 2:8-10)
12: "We believe in the work of the Holy Spirit, Who sustains comforts and empowers the faithful, He convinces the world of sin, and guides the faithful into all truth. He brings the good gifts of God to his people. Of these gifts of the Spirit the greatest is Love.
(1 Corinthians 13:1-8)
13: "We believe in the everlasting conscious blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost.
(John 3:36)
14: "We believe the Christian Church is the community of all true believers under the Lordship of Christ. That under the discipline of the Holy Spirit the Church exists for the maintenance of Worship, the edification and fellowship of believers, and to spread the good news of God’s Love and Salvation to the local community and beyond.
15: "We believe in the power of prayer and that we are called to pray one for another.
(James 5:14)
16: "We believe it to be the supreme responsibility of disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ to make His Gospel known to all people.
(Matthew 28:19)
17: "We believe in the physical return of our Lord.
(Revelation 19:11-16)
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