Our Beliefs
God calls us to believe–placing our trust in him, personally committing ourselves to him, and accepting the truth of the gospel. We believe in the existence of only one true God. We believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (the Trinity).
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We believe in God the Father, begotten of none, the eternal Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. God is the creator; all things and all people are from him and exist for him. As author of our salvation, he adopts into his family all who are born again by faith.
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We believe in Jesus Christ, the eternally begotten Son of the Father. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. His sinless human life, humble obedience to his Father’s will, sacrificial death and bodily resurrection made sufficient provision for the salvation of all people. In his ascension, he returned to his Father, where he reigns as Lord.
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We believe in the Holy Spirit, the third person of the triune God, proceeding from and sent by the Father and the Son. As the spirit of holiness, he indwells every believer and his Church, purifying and empowering his people for holy living. He guides them into truth, comforts and encourages them, and enables them to fulfill the Great Commission. He produces his fruit in the lives of believers and gives them spiritual gifts for the good of the Church.
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We believe that the Bible, consisting of the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, is the written Word of God, verbally inspired by the Holy Spirit and, therefore, true, reliable, and without error in all it addresses. We believe the Bible has been safeguarded by the Holy Spirit and transmitted to the present day without any doctrinal corruption. The Bible forever remains the unchanging and final authority for faith and living.
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We believe that God created human beings — male and female — as co-equal bearers of the image of God. Gender is divinely designed, part of the goodness of creation. Human sexuality is a gift, intended to be expressed exclusively in a monogamous, lifelong marital union between one man and one woman.
We believe in the historicity of the first man, Adam, who along with his wife, Eve, was uniquely created by a direct act of God as recorded in Genesis and not by a process of evolution. They were made in His image. Through the misuse of their wills, however, our original parents succumbed to Satan’s temptation, disobeyed God’s command and thus brought sin into the world and became subject to physical and spiritual death.
We believe that God desires all human beings to be restored to a right relationship with him.
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We believe that Jesus Christ is God’s only provision for our salvation. He voluntarily offered himself as our representative and substitute and suffered and died on the cross in our place — taking upon himself God’s righteous wrath.
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We believe in Jesus' bodily resurrection on the third day, which powerfully declared him to be the Son of God. By his death and resurrection, Jesus once for all conquered sin, death, hell, and the devil.
We believe salvation is a divine gift given to any who repent and believe. Repentance and faith are the divinely enabled human responses to the grace of God. All who truly believe and receive Christ are fully justified, reconciled to God, born of his Spirit, adopted as his children, and united with Jesus in his death and resurrection.
We believe that a living faith must express itself in a life of loving obedience to God and in loving service to others. Believers are called to decisively surrender their wills, be renewed in their minds, and have their hearts purified as they continuously offer themselves as living sacrifices to God.
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All of us have sinned and need forgiveness if we are to have eternal life with God. (Romans 3:23)
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died on the Cross for our sins and rose again (1 Corinthians 15:3-4). In His death, Christ died for our wrongdoings (1 Peter 2:24), and in His resurrection He overcame the power of death (Hebrews 2:14-15)
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We need to acknowledge our sin and believe in Christ (John 3:16; Acts 3:19; Romans 10:9-10).
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You will be saved, forgiven, adopted into God’s family, and given the blessing of life with God forever (John 10:10; Ephesians 1:3-7).
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The Church. We believe that Buel Country Church is to be a loving community of Christ’s followers who gather for worship, prayer, instruction in the Word, mutual encouragement and discipline. As each believer is the temple of the Holy Spirit, the Church is to display his holiness, bear his fruit, and be adorned by his gracious gifts.
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We believe that baptism and the Lord’s Supper were instituted by the Lord Jesus himself
Baptism is not as a means of salvation, but as outward signs of the salvation we have by faith.
The Lord’s Supper (Communion) serves not only as a vivid memorial of Jesus’ bodily sacrifice and shed blood, but also as a proclamation of his death until he returns. It symbolizes the believer’s union with Christ and the spiritual unity shared by every believer.
