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What We Believe
The following is our "Statement of Faith" as extracted from the
documents of Presbyterian USA. It is a beautiful prayer and thought
provoking confession of faith.
In life and death we belong to God. Through the
grace of or Lord Jesus Christ, The love of God, And the communion of the
Holy Spirit, we trust in the one triune God, the Holy One of Israel,
whom alone we worship and serve.
We trust in Jesus Christ, Fully
human, fully God. Jesus proclaimed good news to the poor and release to
the captives, teaching by word and deed and blessing the children,
healing the sick. and binding the broken hearted, eating with the
outcasts, forgiving sinners, and calling all to repent and believe the
gospel. Unjustly condemned for blasphemy and sedition, Jesus was
crucified, suffering the depths of human pain and giving his life for
the sins of the world. God raised Jesus from the dead, vindicating his
sinless life, breaking the power of sin and evil, delivering us from
death to life eternal.
We trust in God, whom Jesus called Abba,
Father. In sovereign love God created the world good and makes everyone
equally in God's image male and female, of every race and people, to
live as one community. But we rebel against God; we hide from our
Creator. Ignoring God's commandments, we violate the image of God in
others and ourselves, accept lies as truth, exploit neighbor and nature,
and threaten death to the planet entrusted to our care. We deserve God's
condemnation. Yet God acts with justice and mercy to redeem creation. In
everlasting love, the God of Abraham and Sarag chose a covenant people
to bless all our families of the earth. Hearing their cry, God delivered
the children of Israel from the house of bondage. Loving us still, God
makes us heirs with Christ of the covenant. Like a mother who will not
forsake her nursing child, like a father who runs to welcome the
prodigal home, God is faithful still.
We trust in God the Holy
Spirit, everywhere the giver and renewer of life. The Spirit justifies
us by grace through faith, sets us free to accept ourselves and to love
God and neighbor, and binds us together with all believers in the one
body of Christ, the church. The same Spirit who inspired the prophets
and apostles rules our faith and life in Christ through Scripture,
engages us through the Word proclaimed, claims us in the waters of
baptism, feeds us with the bread of life and the cup of salvation, and
calls women and men to all ministries of the church. In a broken and
fearful world the Spirit give us courage to pray without ceasing, to
witness among all peoples to Christ as Lord and Savior, to unmask
idolatries in church and culture, to hear the voices of peoples long
silenced, and to work with others for justice, freedom, and
peace.
In gratitude to God, empowered by the Spirit, we strive to
serve Christ in our daily tasks and to live holy and joyful lives, even
as we watch for God's new heaven and new earth, praying, Come, Lord
Jesus With believers in every time and place, we rejoice that nothing in
life or in death can separate us from the love of God in Jesus Christ
our Lord. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy
Spirit. Amen.
*Copyright @ 1991 by the office of the
General Assembly, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). This document is part of
the Book of Confessions, which is in turn Part I of the Constitution of
the Church
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