Beliefs
Grace Communion
International is a communion of members, congregations and
ministries located in more than 100 countries and territories. Our
mission is to live and share the gospel of Jesus Christ and to help
members grow spiritually (Matthew 28:19-20).
Christians are
exhorted to “grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 3:18). The Spirit of God leads the church
into all truth (John 16:13). Accordingly, this Statement of Beliefs
is not a closed creed. Grace Communion International constantly
renews its commitment to truth and deeper understanding and seeks to
respond to God's guidance in its beliefs and practices.
Summary of Our Christian
Faith
- There is one God—Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit.
- God the Father made all things through
the Son, sent the Son for our salvation, and gives us the Holy
Spirit.
- The Son of God, Jesus Christ, our Lord
and Saviour, was born of the virgin Mary, fully God and fully
human, and is the perfect revelation of the Father and the
perfect representative of humanity. He suffered and died on the
cross for all human sin, was raised bodily on the third day, and
ascended to heaven. Standing in for all humanity before the
Father, Jesus Christ provides the perfect human response to God.
Since he died for all, all died in him, and all will be made
alive in him.
- The Holy Spirit brings sinners to
repentance and faith, assures believers of their forgiveness and
acceptance as God’s dearly loved children, and works in them to
conform them to the image of Jesus Christ.
- The Bible is the inspired and infallible
Word of God that testifies to Jesus Christ. The Bible is fully
authoritative for all matters of faith and salvation.
- Salvation comes only by God’s grace and
not by works, and it is experienced through faith in Jesus
Christ. Christians respond to the joy of salvation when they
gather in regular fellowship and live godly lives in Jesus
Christ.
- We look forward to the resurrection of
the dead and the life of the age to come.
Click here for the full
Statement of Beliefs.
Grace Communion International as a
denomination has its beliefs grounded in Trinitarian Christ Centred
Theology
Key points of Trinitarian,
Christ-Centred Theology
Following
are some basic precepts of
the Christ Centred Theology.
-
The
Triune God created all
people to participate
through the vicarious
humanity of Jesus Christ
in the love relationship
enjoyed by the Father,
Son and Spirit.
-
The
Son became human, the
man Jesus Christ, to
reconcile all humanity
to God through his
birth, life, death,
resurrection and
ascension.
-
The
crucified, resurrected
and glorified Jesus is
the representative and
the substitute for
humanity at the right
hand of the Father, and
he draws all people to
himself by the power of
the Holy Spirit.
-
In
Christ, humanity is
loved and accepted by
the Father.
-
Jesus
Christ paid for all our
sins—past, present and
future—and there is no
longer any debt to pay.
-
The
Father has in Christ
forgiven all our sins,
and he eagerly desires
that we turn to him.
-
We
can enjoy his love only
when we believe that he
loves us. We can enjoy
his forgiveness only
when we believe he has
forgiven us.
-
When
we respond to the Spirit
by turning to God,
believing the good news
and picking up our cross
and following Jesus, the
Spirit leads us into the
transformed life of the
kingdom of God.
Links:
An Introduction to Trinitarian Theology:
The God
Revealed in Jesus (external link)
Cyflwyniad Byr i Ddiwinyddiaeth Drindodaidd (pdf)
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