Statement of Faith
South Asian Christians is committed to the foundational doctrines taken from Ephesians 4:1-6 and Hebrews 6:1-2.
THE BIBLE
We
believe the Bible to be the inspired Word of God; that the sixty-six books, as
originally written, comprising the Old and the New Testaments are entirely free
from error; that the Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and
practice and the true basis for Christian fellowship.
GOD
We believe in one God, Creator of all, holy, sovereign, eternal, existing in
three equal Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
CHRIST
We believe in the absolute and essential deity of Jesus Christ, in His eternal
existence with the Father in preincarnate glory, in His virgin birth, sinless
life, substitutionary death, bodily resurrection, triumphant ascension,
mediatorial ministry and personal return.
THE HOLY SPIRIT
We
believe in the absolute and essential deity and personality of the Holy Spirit
Who convinces of sin, of righteousness and of judgment; Who regenerates,
sanctifies, illuminates and comforts those who believe in Jesus Christ.
SATAN
We believe that Satan exists as an evil personality, the originator of sin, the
archenemy of God and man.
MAN
We believe that both man and woman were divinely created in the image of God;
that both sinned, becoming guilty before God and thereby incurring physical and
spiritual death on all mankind.
SALVATION
We
believe that salvation is by the grace of our sovereign God; that by the
appointment of the Father, Christ voluntarily suffered a vicarious, expiatory
and propitiatory death; that justification is by faith alone in the shed blood
of Christ on the cross, the all-sufficient sacrifice and resurrection of the
Lord Jesus Christ and that those whom God has effectively redeemed shall be
divinely preserved and finally perfected in the image of God.
FUTURE THINGS
We believe in the personal, bodily and glorious return of the Lord Jesus Christ;
in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust; in the eternal
blessedness of the redeemed and in the judgment and conscious, eternal
punishment of the wicked.