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HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH'S BELIEFS

WE BELIEVE

When it comes right down to it, we're not as independent as we'd like to think. In fact, we have come to believe that God is our only HOPE for making any sense of this world and of this life we are living. Specifically, we believe that Jesus is the invisible God, that came to this earth and gave you and I the example of how to live and how we are to relate to Him. God has also designed a corporate life that includes great blessing for those who embraced Jesus, His purpose, His values and His teaching. God desires an intimate relationship with us, to be the very center of our lives and of our community.

THE TRINITY
The one God is infinitely perfect and eternal and exists in three persons, showing forth as God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

JESUS CHRIST OUR SAVIOR
Jesus Christ is the Son of God and is the complete fulfillment of everything promised in the Bible. Jesus put a face on the one true God who reaches out to us. His love for mankind was so great that he died for us on the cross and rose from dead so that we may begin a reverent, eternal friendship with God.

THE HOLY SPIRIT
The Holy Spirit was sent to do well within, and fill each person who believes in the person and work of Jesus Christ. Those who believe in Jesus receive the Holy Spirit. Those who voluntarily and consistently obey the words of Jesus are filled with the Holy Spirit. His mission is to exalt Jesus and everyone who believes, by bringing to mind the significance of the words and works of Jesus, by pouring out the love of God in our hearts, by giving each believer gifts for service, by bringing light upon the true meaning of the Word of God, and by assisting us in prayer to the Father through the perfect mediation of Jesus.

THE BIBLE
The Bible is our charter for authority, being fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, who breathed out this God-message through His chosen human servants. The truths contained therein will not lead one into error if followed as intended. We believe in God's word over man's word.

THE SINFULNESS OF MAN
Every person is born with a sinful nature and thus alienated from a Holy God.

SALVATION BY GRACE
God graciously and freely grants forgiveness and declares righteous anyone who will trust in Jesus Christ by faith, and in the complete payment He made for our debt of sin by the sacrifice of his perfect and sinless life.

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