Safe Haven Community Church Core Beliefs

Bible

We believe the Bible to be the complete Word of God

• That the 66 Old and New Testament books were inspired by the Spirit of God as holy men of God spoke and wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit -II Peter 1:20-21
• That the Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and conduct - 2 Timothy 3:16

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

Jesus Christ

We believe in the absolute and essential deity of our Lord Jesus Christ

• In His eternal existence, with the Father in pre-incarnate glory
• In His work of creation, in His virgin birth, sinless life, substitutionary death, and bodily resurrection
• In His triumphant ascension, mediatorial ministry, and personal return

The Holy Spirit

We believe in the absolute and essential deity and in the personality of the Holy Spirit

• Who convinces of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment
• Who regenerates, indwells, seals, sanctifies, illuminates, and comforts those who believe in Jesus Christ
• Who baptizes believers at conversion into the Body of Christ and bestows upon them His gifts sovereignly as He wills and fills those yielded to Him

Mankind

We believe that Adam was divinely created in the image of God

• That by the sin of disobedience, he fell from that state
• That all his posterity inherited spiritual depravity and defilement
• That all men, therefore, are guilty before God and condemned to physical and spiritual death

Salvation

We believe that salvation is by the sovereign grace of God

• That by the Father, Christ voluntarily suffered a propitiatory death
• That justification is by faith alone in the all-sufficient sacrifice and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ

These brief statements of faith do not exhaust the extent of our beliefs. The Bible itself, as the inspired and infallible Word of God that speaks with final authority concerning truth, morality, and the proper conduct of humankind, is the source of all that we believe.