{"id":9,"date":"2011-07-09T19:36:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T19:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aslchristians.org\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2016-06-07T17:15:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T21:15:49","slug":"vision-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/?page_id=9","title":{"rendered":"Doctrinal Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

We believe<\/strong> that the Bible is the Word of God, fully inspired and without error in the original manuscripts, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and that it has supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct. (II Timothy 3:16; II Peter 1:20,21; Mark 13:31; John 8:31,32; John 20:31; Acts 20:32)<\/p>\n

We believes<\/strong>\u00a0in one God, Maker of all things, eternally existent in three persons: the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. (Genesis 1:1,26; Matthew 28:19; John 4:24)<\/p>\n

We believe<\/strong>\u00a0that God became incarnate (of flesh and blood) and dwelt among us. He prepared Himself a body; was born of a virgin, was begotten by the Holy Spirit, lived a sinless life and is true God and true man.\u00a0(Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 9:6; John 1:1,3; Luke 1:34, 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:22; Galatians 4:4)<\/p>\n

We believe<\/strong>\u00a0in the deity of Jesus Christ. (Exodus 3:14; Isaiah 43:13; John 5:18)<\/p>\n

We believe<\/strong>\u00a0that Jesus Christ was crucified and died a vicarious death. We believe in His glorious resurrection from the dead and His accession into heaven, where He is now seated at the right hand of God the Father. (1 Peter 2:21-23; Romans 5:6-8; Romans 6:9; Romans 6:10; Hebrews 7:25)<\/p>\n

We believe<\/strong>\u00a0in the personal salvation of believers and that it is a free gift of God – the result of faith and repentance through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. (Isaiah 45:17; Ephesians 2:8; John 3:16; Romans 6:23).<\/p>\n

We believe<\/strong>\u00a0in the blessed hope-the imminent, personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Pet. 3:4; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11; Rev. 22:20).<\/p>\n

We believe<\/strong>\u00a0in healing, that it is included in the atonement and is a definite part of the redemptive work of Christ. (Isaiah 53:4-5; Psalm 103:2-3; Matthew 8:14-17; Matthew 9:2-7; John 17:11-14).<\/p>\n

We believe<\/strong>\u00a0in the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit, and that by His indwelling, the Christian is enabled to live an overcoming and fulfilling life. (John 14:16,17,26; 15:26,27; John 16:9-14; Romans 8:9; I Corinthians 3:16; 6:19; Galatians 5:22-26).<\/p>\n

We believe<\/strong>\u00a0in the universal church, a living spiritual body of which Christ is the head and all regenerated persons are members. (1 Corinthians 11:3; Ephesians 1:15-23; Ephesians 4:7-16, Colossians 1:18; Colossians 2:6-12)<\/p>\n

We believe<\/strong> that a group of believers of Jesus Christ of the Truth and Grace and those who are baptized in his name will be associated for worship, work, and fellowship to a lost world. (John 1:17; Ephesians 2:19-22; Acts 1:8; Ephesians 5:19-21; Acts 2:42; Hebrews 10:23-25).<\/p>\n

We believe<\/strong>\u00a0that God works mysteriously as He chooses to use the weak to shame the strong and the uneducated to teach the educated through followers of Christ that use America Sign Language (ASL) users to do God’s work through Christ. (Exodus 4:11,\u00a0John 9:1-3,\u00a0John 1:17,\u00a01 Corinthians 1:27).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We believe that the Bible is the Word of God, fully inspired and without error in the original manuscripts, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and that it has supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct. (II Timothy 3:16; II Peter 1:20,21; Mark 13:31; John 8:31,32; John 20:31; Acts 20:32) We believes\u00a0in one God, Maker of all things, eternally existent in three persons: the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. (Genesis 1:1,26; Matthew 28:19; John 4:24) We believe\u00a0that God became incarnate (of flesh and blood) and dwelt among us. He prepared Himself a body; was born… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/97"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}