My Personal Faith Statement
In Jesus, Ken Page
1. The Bible is my source of truth and the written revelation about who God is and what He is about. While I seek to know the truth, I am quite aware that I see "dimly" on this side of heaven. I do not have all the answers and some things are hard to understand. I rest in the fact that God has all the knowledge and wisdom.
2. God has revealed Himself through the person of Jesus Christ. Jesus is God. He was born on this earth, lived a sinless life and was crucified to pay my debt. He is offering Himself to me today as Spiritual Bread. He is my life. He will return again.
3. God is personally involved with His people through His Spirit- the Holy Spirit. He resides in those who have been made new people. The Holy Spirit gifts and fills Christians in order to bring about maturity in them and to serve others.
4. People enter this world in rebellion to God, are dead spiritually and have no ability to change this situation. Christians are people who have been made right with God and have the life of God restored in them. They are not made right because of their own goodness or their own will power. They have been made right because they have acknowledged the bankruptcy of their own spiritual life and have accepted by faith the gift of "rightness" from God. God's gift was in sending His Son, Jesus, to pay the consequences of our "wrongs". Jesus did this by dying on the cross. The life of God was restored in us by God raising Jesus from the dead and by sending His Spirit to live within us.
5. Christians are brand new people- they have a new identity. Believers are accepted by God, secure in His love and valuable to Him.
6. Living the Christian life is one of dependence on God. God is in the supernatural process of changing my life to be more like Him. As I get to know Him and depend on Him He changes me. His truth comes to me primarily through the Bible and His Spirit allows me to understand it. The energy to live the Christian life comes from His Spirit.
7. We live in a world that is spiritual as well as natural. Satan has a strong grip on the lives of people on earth. God has rescued many from Satan's grip and is in the process of rescuing others who will trust Him. He invites me to join Him in this ministry.