What We Believe
In matters of doctrine and belief, the Church strives for three things: in essential matters, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, love.
ABOUT THE BIBLE
The Bible is God's Word to Humanity.
The Bible is God’s inerrant Word to us, infallible as originally given by God through human authors under the supernatural guidance of the Holy Spirit and is absolutely true and trustworthy. It is our only standard of faith and practice. (2 Timothy 3:16-17; Hebrews 4:12; 2 Peter 1:20-21; Matthew 5:18; Psalm 119)
ABOUT THE SON
Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Jesus Christ is the promised Messiah of the Old Testament, born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, offered Himself as the perfect sacrifice for the sins of all people by dying on the cross, rose from the dead to provide justification for every believer, ascended to the right hand of God where He presently intercedes for all believers, and will again, in the fullness of the Father’s time, return in visible, triumphant, personal form to overthrow sin, judge the world, and establish His Kingdom on earth (John 1:14).
ABOUT THE CHURCH
Jesus established the church to continue His mission and ministry on earth.
The church is a voluntary association of baptized believers in Christ who have covenanted together to follow the teachings of the Bible in doctrine, worship, and practice. We believe that the church is a self-governed organization served by pastors and lay leaders.
ABOUT DEATH & RESURRECTION
Everyone will face judgment before God; some to eternal life, others to eternal condemnation.
Death involves no loss of consciousness, but the soul of the redeemed passes immediately into the presence of Christ and there is separation of soul and body until the first resurrection when the spirit, soul, and resurrected body will be reunited in glorified form in heaven forever. All people will be bodily resurrected, the saved to everlasting life, but the lost to eternal condemnation.
ABOUT GOD
There is one true and living God.
God is the Creator and Sustainer of all things. He is infinite, eternal, unchangeable, and is revealed to us as the Godhead existent in three co-equal, co-eternal, and co-substantial persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. (Ephesians 1:3-6,13-14; Matthew 28:19; Genesis 1:1,26,27; Genesis 3:22; Philippians 2:5-6; John 1:1,3,14,18; Isaiah 9:6).
ABOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT
The Holy Spirit is sent from God and lives in every Christian.
The Holy Spirit is sent from God to convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, and to regenerate, cleanse, and secure from sin. He lives in every Christian from the moment of salvation. He provides the Christian with power for living, understanding of spiritual truth, and guidance in doing what is right. He gives every believer a spiritual gift when they are saved. As Christians we seek to be filled by Him and to live under His control daily (John 14:12, 26, 17; 16:8, 13).
ABOUT THE FATHER
The first person of the Trinity .
The first person of the Trinity who orders and disposes of all things according to His own purpose and grace, and who continually upholds, directs, and governs all creatures and events for His own glory. Fatherhood denotes spiritual relationship; first, within the Trinity; second, within humankind, creatively in relation to all people, but spiritually only in relation to those who have been saved by His grace from their sin and come to Him through Jesus Christ. (James 1:17)
ABOUT SALVATION
God has acted in Jesus Christ to deliver us from sin.
Jesus Christ is the only Savior from sin. He provided forgiveness and atonement for our sins by shedding His blood on the cross and rose again to provide life and justification. Apart from Christ, there is no salvation. All people are under condemnation through personal sin, and deliverance from condemnation comes only by the righteousness of Christ and not human merit. This righteousness is credited to the believer by grace through faith. The Holy Spirit regenerates or gives new life to one who commits his life to Jesus, and they are kept by God’s power forever, never to be lost.We believe all sin as defined in Scripture is offensive to God. However, we also believe that God offers redemption and restoration to all who confess and forsake their sin, seeking His mercy and forgiveness through Jesus Christ. (Acts 3:19-21; Rom. 10:9-10; 1 Cor. 6:9-11)
ABOUT HUMANITY, SIN, & SATAN
Humanity’s condition is one of sin and separation from God.
ABOUT SANCTITY OF LIFE
Humanity is sacred.
Humanity was created in innocence directly and immediately by God, in His spiritual image, for the purpose of fellowship with God and glory for God. Humanity was tempted by Satan and sinned, and because of this all people have been born in sin since that time. Every person has a tremendous potential for good, but all are marred by a nature of rebellion and disobedience toward God which the Bible calls sin. Sin separates us from God, others, and all good things, ultimately and eternally in hell. All persons need to be saved from their sin.
ABOUT LAST THINGS
Jesus Christ will return and God’s plan for eternity will be carried out.
We believe in the imminent and bodily return of Jesus Christ to the earth. The dead will be raised and Christ will judge all people according to their works. Unbelievers will be cast into eternal punishment and outer darkness prepared for the devil and his angels who preceded them, and the saved will enter into the eternal state of glory with God and will, in their resurrected and glorified bodies, spend eternity.
We believe that every person must be afforded compassion, love, kindness, respect, and dignity. (Mark 12:28-31; Luke 6:31) Hateful and harassing behavior or attitudes directed toward any individual are to be repudiated and are not in accord with Scripture nor the doctrines of North Point Community Church. We believe this includes the unborn. (Psalm 127:3; Psalm 139: 13, 15; Psalm 22: 10, 11; Galatians 1:15)
ABOUT MARRIAGE
The Bible, our final authority, defines marriage as being between a man and a woman.
We believe that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as male or female. These two distinct, complementary sexes together reflect the image and nature of God. (Gen. 1:26-27) Rejection of one’s biological sex is a rejection of the image of God within that person. We believe that the term “marriage” has only one meaning: the uniting of one man and one woman in a single, exclusive union, as delineated in Scripture. (Gen. 2:18-25) We believe that God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman who are married to each other. (1 Cor. 6:18; 7:2-5; Heb. 13:4) We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman.