Beliefs

The Essentials:

The beliefs we absolutely share as essential within the family of Journey Church

The authority of Scripture and our submission to it's living counsel.

The good news that Jesus is EVERYTHING, and life in His kingdom is available now and forever through discipleship to Him.

The necessity of salvation by grace for the restored relationship with God and one another.

IN TIFTON AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.

Statements of Belief:

The Bible:

At Journey Church, we believe the Bible (composed of Protestant Old and New Testaments) to be both true and authoritative. We make this claim because we believe God divinely inspired the original authors through the Holy Spirit to pen them. (2 Timothy 3:15-17 and 2 Peter 1:21)

Whereas we expect God to be present with and in us, always revealing, we do not subscribe to notions that God contradicts what the Scriptures have historically penned for us in practice and belief. God never contradicts Himself. Therefore, Scripture serves not only as inspiration into the life of God, but also as a guardrail for us to know the will of God and test the veracity of all things.

The Gospel:

No one theology can contain the enormity of this word. We find it most useful to
articulate the Gospel as a statement and a story.

The Gospel Statement

The Gospel is the good news that God himself, the Creator, has come to rescue us from sin, and renew all things, in and through the work of Jesus Christ on our behalf, to establish his Kingdom, through his people, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

This good news is initiated by God, in grace.

This good news is substitutionary: Christ has come, lived, died, and risen on our behalf.

This good news is participatory: we are involved in declaring and joining the work of
God in redemptive history as his faithful, fruitful people.

This good news is news of a Kingdom, not just individual hearts. It is the Lordship of
Jesus tangibly worked out across all of creation.

This good news is powerful. It wakes people from death to life, promises the presence
and power of God in us, and enables us to be a preview community of the work God will do in all creation.

Salvation:

Salvation is the word we use when we talk about how an individual experiences the
transformative power of the gospel.

Eugene Peterson defines it as, “Salvation is God’s way of dealing with what is wrong with the world and with us.”

Throughout the scriptures we read that salvation is experienced as a past, present and future reality.

In reading God’s Word we understand that salvation is something that has happened, is happening and will happen to those who believe.

We Affirm...

The Apostles’ Creed is the foundational creed of Christian churches. It has received this title because of its great antiquity; most of the creed dates from the early 2nd century. The creed was used as a summary of Christian doctrine for baptismal candidates in the churches of Rome. Though many churches and flavors of Christianity throughout the ages have different interpretations of the Bible, and embrace various doctrinal nuances, the essence of what the Scriptures teach is found in the words of the Apostles’ Creed. 

Therefore, we have fellowship with other members of the Body of Christ who profess their faith as follows: 

We believe in God, the Father Almighty, the Creator of heaven and earth, And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord: who was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day He arose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty, whence He shall come to judge the living and the dead. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic (universal) church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting.

The Nicene Creed was developed in the 3rd Century as a foundational statement of belief for early Christian churches across the Greco-Roman world:

I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made.

Who, for us men for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man;
and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures;
and ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge the quick and the dead;
whose kingdom shall have no end. And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of Life; who proceeds from the Father and the Son;
who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified; who spoke by the prophets. And I believe in one holy catholic (universal) and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.
Amen.

Founded in 1942, the National Association of Evangelicals seeks to honor God by
connecting and representing evangelical Christians in the United States. It represents
more than 45,000 local churches from 40 different denominations and serves a
constituency of millions.

We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God. We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in
His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.

We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful people, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation. We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Further Statements of Belief

The Gospel Story

Salvation

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