One Hope Ministries International: Our Beliefs

STATEMENT OF BELIEFS

1. We teach that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are verbally inspired of God and inerrant in the original writing and that they are the supreme and final authority of faith and life.

2. We teach one God eternally existing in three persons—Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

3. We teach that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary and is true God and true man.

4. We teach that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned and, thereby, incurred not only physical death, but spiritual death, which is separation from God.

5. We teach that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood.

6. We teach the resurrection of the crucified body of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His ascension into Heaven, and in His present life there where, on our behalf, He ministers as High Priest, Intercessor and Advocate.

7. We teach the personal, bodily visible, imminent return of Jesus Christ.

8. We teach that all who receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith are born again in the Holy Spirit, and, thereby, become children of God.

9. We teach the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the conscious everlasting punishment of the lost.

10. We teach that a true believer is eternally secure, that he/she cannot lose his/her salvation, but that sin may interrupt the joy of his/her fellowship with God and bring the loving discipline of our Heavenly Father.

11. We teach that the Holy Spirit is a person, is God, and possesses all divine attributes. He dwells in all believers, baptizes and seals all believers at the time of their salvation, distributes and empowers the gifts of the Spirit, and He fills afresh each believer in response to confession of sin and yieldedness.

12. We teach that it is the goal of every Christian to grow in spiritual maturity through obedience to the Word of God and the indwelling Spirit.