Statement of Faith and Teaching
Plateau True Light Christian Church has embraced and adopted the following as our statement of faith and a standard of accountability for all teaching at our church. The same statement of faith is not only embraced as doctrinal essence, but also adopted as the statement of teaching. We ask that no teaching in our church compromises this statement in order to prevent confusion or division on these important issues.
a) There is one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Genesis 1:1,26; Matthew 28:19; John 1:1-3, 4:24; Acts 5:3-4; Romans 1:20; 2 Corinthians 13:14; Ephesians 4:5-6)
b) Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, and born of the Virgin Mary, and is fully God and fully man. (Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 1:26-38; Romans 9:5; Titus 2:13)
c) Bible is the completely inspired Word of God, without error in its original manuscripts. The Bible is our supreme and final authority in faith and life. (Isaiah 40:8; Matthew 5:18, 24:35; 2 Timothy 3:16; Hebrews 4:12; 2 Peter 1:20-21)
d) Man was created in the image of God, that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death which is separation from God, and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, and become guilty sinners in thought, word and deed. (Genesis 1:26-27; 3:1-24; Romans 3:25, 5:12-18; 1 John 1:8)
e) The Lord Jesus died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice on the cross; that He bodily rose victorious from the grave on the third day; and that all who believe in Him are justified on the basis of His shed blood on the cross. (Matthew 20:28, 28:6; John 3:16; Romans 3:24-26, 5:1, 10:9; 1 Corinthians 15:3, 14;2 Corinthians 5:21; Ephesians 1:7; 1 John 2:2)
f) The return of our Lord Jesus Christ is personal and imminent. (Acts 1:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17)
g) We are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God forever by grace through faith to accept the Lord Jesus Christ. (John 1:12-13, 3:3-5; Ephesians 2:8-9; James 1:18; 1 Peter 1:23)
h) Without faith it is impossible to please God, the possession of faith does not ensure health or prosperity. (Luke 9:22-27; 2 Corinthians 11:23-31, 12:7-10; Philippians 1:29-30; 2 Timothy 3:8-12; Hebrew 11:6, 32-40)
i) There is the bodily resurrection of the just and unjust, the everlasting joy of the saved and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost. (Matthew 25:31-46; John 5:28-29; 1 Corinthians 15:12-57; 2 Corinthians 5:10; Revelation 20:4-6, 11-15)
j) All Christians are baptized by the Holy Spirit and permanently indwelt by Him at the point of salvation. The filling of the Holy Spirit is meant to be a continuous experience for the believer through submission to His controlling authority and power. God expects HIS children to grow with increasing holiness, devotion to the Lord and fruits. There is no personal sin that a christian can not overcome by the power of the Holy Spirit. A christian’s spiritual growth requires personal effort in bearing the cross and God’s power that makes the effort possible and easy. (John 14:16, 15:5; Romans 6:3-5, 8:9-11; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 5:15-21; Philippians 2:12-13; Hebrews 5:12-14; Matthew 13:1-13; Romans 6:14; Matthew 16:24-26; Luke 9:23-25; Matthew 11:28-30)
k) The body of Christ, the universal church, is composed of all interdependent members who are born again, each having received from the Holy Spirit gifts which are to be exercised for the building up of the whole body. No one gift is given to all believers nor indicates regeneration, filling, or baptism with the Holy Spirit. Each local church is composed of born-again christains who are connected together in a community. (Romans 12:4-8; 1 Corinthians 12:12-13; Ephesians 2:14-20, 4:4-16)
l) Christ commanded His church to baptize believers as a proclamation of their faith and identification with Him and His church, and to celebrate communion as a living memorial of His redemptive death and as a reminder of present fellowship with Christ and His body. The universal church grows through the adding of new converts into each local church, and planting new local churches all over the world. (Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 2:28-47, 8:36-40, 10:47, 18:8; Romans 6:3-5; 1 Corinthians 11:23-29; Book of Acts)