Statement of Faith

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好的赌博软件推荐神学院, 赌博十大靠谱软件力求把赌博十大靠谱软件所做的每一件事都建立在耶稣基督改变人的福音上. Such a claim is both personal, a commitment by each member of our community, and institutional, 这个机构从创立之初就一直秉承着共同的愿望. 即使赌博十大靠谱软件在庆祝世界各地教会的丰富多样性, 赌博十大靠谱软件赌博十大靠谱软件的信仰锚定在耶稣基督身上, the authority of Holy Scripture, 以及历史上基督教会的传统.

1. We Are Historically Orthodox.

We affirm the historic Christian faith, 正如神所启示和权威的旧约和新约圣经所证明的那样, and as summarized, for example, in the Apostles Creed and Nicene Creed.

We affirm that God is triune, and that the three divine Persons — the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit — are coequal, coessential, and coeternal. 赌博十大靠谱软件确认,由于上帝的恩典和能力,宇宙被创造出来, is continually sustained and governed, 并最终将带来它所承诺的圆满. We affirm, further, 赌博十大靠谱软件人类是上帝按照自己的形象创造的,要成为受造界的管家, 赌博十大靠谱软件蒙召要全心爱神, soul, mind, and strength, and to love others as ourselves. 赌博十大靠谱软件在神所指派的这些事上,竟没有成就,以致赌博十大靠谱软件现在受审判和死亡. 然而赌博十大靠谱软件欢喜,因为神的恩典在赌博十大靠谱软件的生命中是可得的, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ; and that through faith in Christ we are delivered from sin and death and empowered by the Holy Spirit for lives of joyful obedience to the Father. Finally, 赌博十大靠谱软件回应圣灵的呼召,参与基督的身体, the church; to embrace Christ's mission to the world; and to live in the hope and assurance that Christ's return will bring to completion God's saving work.

2. We Are Clearly Evangelical.

赌博十大靠谱软件站在基督教广泛的福音派传统和, as such, we joyfully accept the task of proclaiming the evangel — God's good news — to the world.

赌博十大靠谱软件理解这意味着耶稣基督是世界的主和救主,只有他才能把破碎和堕落的人类从罪和死亡中解放出来. 赌博十大靠谱软件高举圣经的权威,认为它是神所默示的, 被教会接纳为赌博十大靠谱软件理解和见证的中心. 赌博十大靠谱软件确认圣灵在人心中动工,点燃对耶稣基督的信心, 恢复人们与上帝和彼此之间的正确关系, 开始把人改造成基督的样式. And we believe the gospel promise that light, health, wholeness, 每一个祈求平安的人都会得到丰盛的平安. 然而,赌博十大靠谱软件也相信,赌博十大靠谱软件被呼召去实践赌博十大靠谱软件所宣讲的:首先, by cultivating vital Christian piety; and, second, 通过公开见证和爱心服务融入周围的文化.

3. We Are Distinctively Wesleyan.

站在卫斯理神圣分支的历史和福音派基督教, 并承认自由卫理公会是赌博十大靠谱软件的创始教派, 好的赌博软件推荐是由约翰和查尔斯卫斯理的神学遗产通知.

赌博十大靠谱软件和他们一样相信,神拯救的目的是借着圣灵的改变工作,更新人的心,使人活出真正的圣洁. 他们强调人类回应圣灵更新工作的重要性,这塑造了赌博十大靠谱软件, 包括至关重要的精神纪律和实践-如祈祷, meditation, worship, Scripture study, charitable giving, public witness to Christ's saving love, 为有需要的人服务——所有这些都是上帝恩典的途径. Above all, 赌博十大靠谱软件拥抱卫斯理家的希望,即上帝的改变之爱提供给所有的人, addresses all areas of life, 直到救赎了所有的受造之物,他才会满足.

4. We Are Genuinely Ecumenical.

作为约翰·卫斯理天主教精神的继承者, 赌博十大靠谱软件寻求聚集来自不同神学和教会传统的人,他们经历过耶稣基督改变的大能.

We believe that theological diversity, 当建立在历史正统和对基督共同而重要的信仰基础上时, 丰富了赌博十大靠谱软件的学识,见证了赌博十大靠谱软件主对教会内部团结的呼召. 赌博十大靠谱软件也清楚地意识到,还有其他将人们彼此隔开的隔离墙, 基督想要打破的墙——性别的墙, race, ethnicity, nationality, language, and class. 赌博十大靠谱软件相信,基督呼召赌博十大靠谱软件重视多样性,并为赌博十大靠谱软件大学社区的所有人寻求方法,以发展他们的个人天赋,并以有意义的方式为赌博十大靠谱软件的共同生活和工作做出贡献. Thus, in all of our diversity, we are centered in Christ, and called by him to shape, model, 一起参与到充满恩典的社区中.

Therefore, we commit ourselves to this faith, 以及这些塑造赌博十大靠谱软件信仰社区的影响, and we pledge ourselves, with humility and conviction, 以赌博十大靠谱软件所知的最好方式生活,与耶稣基督有爱的关系,忠实地为他人服务. 赌博十大靠谱软件相信这是赌博十大靠谱软件生活的中心,也是赌博十大靠谱软件好的赌博软件推荐社区生活的指导愿望.

Kerry Dearborn and Brenda Salter-McNeil

Reconciliation Studies at Seattle Pacific

和解研究副教授布伦达·索尔特·麦克尼尔和神学名誉教授克里·迪尔伯恩谈论21世纪的基督教和解.

“O for a thousand tongues to sing
My great Redeemer’s praise,
The glories of my god and King,
The triumphs of his grace!”
Charles Wesley