Statement of Faith
We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments,
in their original writing, as fully inspired of God and accept them as the
supreme and final authority for faith and life.
We believe in one God, eternally existing in three Persons –
Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Father,
conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary and is true God and true
man.
We believe that God created man in His own image; that man
sinned and thereby incurred the penalty of sin which is death physically and
spiritually; that all human beings inherit a sinful nature which issues (in the
case of those who reach moral responsibility) in actual transgression involving
personal guilt.
With regards to sexual behaviour, we believe in heterosexual
relationships between a natural man and a natural woman within the confines of
lawful matrimony, as expressed in the Colorado Statement on Biblical Sexual
Morality of 2003. Adherence to these stated principles of sexual behaviour is
an inherent requirement of membership of Shofar Christian Church International.
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins a
substitutionary sacrifice according to the Scriptures and that all who believe
in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood.
We believe in the bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus, His
ascension into Heaven, and His present life as our High Priest and Advocate.
We believe in the personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We believe that all that repent of their sin and receive the
Lord Jesus Christ by faith are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become
children of God.
We believe in the baptism in the Holy Spirit, empowering and
equipping believers for service, with the accompanying supernatural gifts of
the Holy Spirit; and in fellowship with the Holy Spirit. We believe in the
divinely ordained ministries of Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and
Teacher.
With regards to submission to authority, we believe in the
principle of being in authority because you are under authority. As such, it is
understood that membership shall be subject to submission to authority in
matters pertaining to church governance, doctrine and personal behaviour.
We believe in the resurrection of both the just and the
unjust, the eternal blessedness of the redeemed, and the eternal banishment of
those who have rejected the offer of salvation.
We believe that the one true Church is the whole company of
those who have been redeemed by Jesus Christ and regenerated by the Holy
Spirit; that the local church on earth should take its character from this
concept of the Church spiritual and therefore, that the new birth and personal
confession of Christ are essentials of church membership.
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ appointed two
ordinances – Baptism in water and the Lord’s Supper to be observed as acts of
obedience and as perpetual witnesses to the cardinal facts of the Christian
faith, that Baptism is the immersion of the believer in water as a confession
of identification with Christ in burial and resurrection and that the Lord’s
Supper is the partaking of the emblems symbolic of the Saviour’s broken body
and shed blood, in remembrance of His sacrificial death, until He comes.
We believe that divine healing was provided for in the Old
and New Testament and is an integral part of the Gospel.
We believe that the Bible teaches that without holiness no
man can see the Lord. We believe in the doctrine of sanctification as a
definite, yet progressive work of grace, commencing at the time of the new
birth and continuing until the consummation of salvation.
We believe the leadership of the local church has the
authority from the scriptures to withdraw the membership of any member for
serious, unrepentant misconduct or similar cause.
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