The Core Ten of North Summit
We believe that God is the Eternal Father and Creator of all things. He has always existed in three persons (Father, Son, Holy Spirit). (Gen 1:1-3)
We believe that God created man in His image (Gen 1:27), but man rebelled against God, introducing sin into this world, and separating people from a holy God (Rom 5:12). Ever since then, all men have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Rom 3:23).
We believe that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man, born of a virgin, died for our rebellion (sin), and resurrected from the dead on the third day to offer restored relationship with God to all who put their trust in Him (Rom. 10:13). Salvation is found in Christ alone, through faith, as God’s gracious gift to us. (Acts 4:12).
We believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, the promised savior, and He came to usher in the kingdom of God, which is already here, but not yet revealed in its fullness (Mt. 4:17). He deserves to be the Savior and Lord of our lives (Rom. 10:9). As a result, we believe that every believer should grow in their discipleship which is to die to ourselves, forsake all, take up our cross, and follow Him (Lk. 14:27).
We believe that God sent the Holy Spirit to empower believers to go out and be witnesses (Acts 1:8). Just as the Father sent His Son into the world, now Jesus sends us to be His ambassadors to a lost and hurting world (Jn. 20:21). The Holy Spirit gives us gifts and in Him we bear fruit in order to carry out God’s will and proclaim the Good News (1 Cor. 12:11-12).
We believe that the Bible, though written by human authors, is the inspired, infallible word of God and was given to the church to be our foundation for living rightly with God and one another. (1 Tim 3:16)
We believe Christ commanded us to love God with all that we are and love our neighbors as ourselves (Mt. 22:37-39). Loving God and others sums up the law of God. By our love others will know that we are His disciples (Jn. 13:35).
We believe that every believer in the world makes up a part of the body of Christ, the Church. Christ’s prayer for His Church is that we would be united in Him, so that the world might know we are His. (Jn. 17:23).
We believe that the Church has been commissioned to take the Good News to the entire world (Mt. 24:14). Every member in the body of Christ is called to play a role in building the kingdom of God; sharing Jesus with others, making disciples, baptizing them and teaching them to obey everything that Jesus taught (Mt. 28:18-20).
We believe in the physical return of Jesus, at a time known only to God (Matt. 24:36). We believe that Jesus will rescue His Church from the wrath of God (1 Thess. 1:10). We believe that God will raise the dead bodily and judge the world, assigning the unbeliever to eternal separation from God, and the believer to eternal life in the new heaven and the new earth (Rev. 21).
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