What We Believe

Statement of Beliefs:
Through his Spirit, God inspired the authors of Scripture to speak to every generation of believers. That includes us. In the original text the Scripture is without error. It speaks with God’s authority, yet reflects the backgrounds, cultures and personalities of its human authors. By God’s Spirit we interpret, contextualize and work to live out His desires for us as written in the Bible.

We believe in one God, the creator of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son (Jesus Christ) and Holy Spirit. God created humans in his image to live eternally in a loving family relationship with Him.

The enemy of God tempted the first human beings to sin. They chose disobedience and in doing so were separated from God and suffered the corruption that comes from the “reign of sin”. Death, disease, darkness and evil entered the world through this sin. Since then, all of creation cries out to be restored to Gods original creation.

God — our Father in heaven, a perfect and holy God — did not abandon us to our destruction. Instead, he provided a way for us and His wonder-
ful creation to be restored back to Himself. That “way” became flesh in the person of Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten son. Jesus willingly left Heaven to be conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin — his mother, Mary.

Jesus lived a sinless life. While here, he taught people about His Kingdom — what it was and what it was like. Many powerful officials didn’t like what He said. With the help of one of His close friends (Judas), Jesus was captured, tortured and executed — put to a cruel, terrible death on a cross.

As he said he would, Jesus came back to life three days after his death! He was seen, spoken to and ate with hundreds of people after His resur-
rection. Then one day Jesus said goodbye for just a little while. He was taken up into heaven, where he has prepared a place for you and I to live with Him forever.

Jesus’ suffering, death, burial and resurrection offer hope to everyone. With his death, Jesus paid the full price for our sin, breaking the power it used to have over us. Sin and death are defeated. His promise of forgive-
ness and eternal oneness with God is now available to everyone.

No amount of human effort (“good works”) can pay for our sin or make us good enough to be with God. Only God’s love for us, so much that he sacrificed his own son to get us back, will save us from eternal separation from him. This gift from our loving Father comes through change of heart and sincere “turning away” from doing life our way, to accepting Jesus’ death as payment for our sin and doing life his way.

Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to make us aware that we need him to forgive our sins and empower our lives. The Holy Spirit miraculously renews and indwells our hearts, encouraging us and reminding us of the way that Jesus wants us to live. The Holy Spirit empowers us with gifts and abilities, tells us when we do wrong, guides us when we feel lost or confused, comforts us in times of sorrow or stress, counsels us when we need wisdom and understanding and reveals truth about Jesus and our Father in heaven.

New Song Christian Fellowship is a gathering of believers rooted and grounded in Christ Jesus. We practice the spiritual discipline of worship, celebrate baptisms and “new births” and gather together to share the “Lord’s Supper”. We seek to live the “way of Jesus” through love, peace, sacrifice, worship and giving, that the world will know we love Him by our love for one another!