Asambleja Biblike | What We Believe

1. The Bible is inspired of God, inerrant in the original documents and of final
authority in all matters of faith, practice and science.

2. There is one God, eternally existent in three persons - Father, Son and Holy
Spirit.

3. The Lord Jesus Christ is fully God, born of a virgin, sinlessly perfect. His
sacrifice is substitutionary and representative. He rose bodily from the dead and
ascended to His Father's right hand, where He now ministers as our Great High
Priest. He will come to rapture His Church and subsequently return to reign on the
earth.

4. Each member of the human race is fallen, sinful and lost, and regeneration by
the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential for the salvation of man. Redemption is
wholly by the blood of Christ and salvation is by grace, through faith in our Lord
Jesus Christ.

5. The Holy Spirit indwells the believer, who is sealed until the day of redemption
and is empowered to live a godly life.

6. There will be a resurrection of the saved and of the lost; of the saved unto eternal
life, and of the lost, unto eternal conscious judgment.

7. The Church began with the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost and
composed of all true believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. These believers are united
in him, and to one another, by the indwelling Holy Spirit. This means that the
Church, as a whole, is not an organization, but a living organism, known as the
Body of Christ.

The Church's calling, hope and destiny are heavenly, and its chief functions are to
glorify God and to witness for Christ until His return. The local church is composed
of believers in a locality who gather in Christ's Name for worship, prayer, edification
and testimony. Government and discipline are divinely outlined in the Epistles as
being the responsibility of the local church.

8. Christ, our risen Head, is the giver of gifts such as evangelists, pastors, and
teachers, and these men are responsible to Him for their service. Gifts are given
"for the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the
Body of Christ."

9. There are two Christian ordinances, baptism and the Lord's Supper. Baptism by
immersion signifies that the believer, having died with Christ, is buried with Him in
baptism and also risen with Christ to walk in newness of life. The Lord's Supper is
a memorial feast, instituted by the Lord Himself exclusively for His own. In the
observance of this supper, believers remember Him; they show His death until He
comes.

10. Every true child of God possesses eternal life and, being justified, sanctified
and sealed with the Holy Spirit, is secure for eternity. However, a Christian may,
through sin, lose his fellowship, joy, power, testimony and reward and incur the
Father's chastisement. Relationship is eternal, being established by new birth;
fellowship, however, is dependent upon obedience.

11. The personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ to translate His Church is
imminent, an event which concludes this present age of grace. This will be
followed by the outpouring of God's wrath on the earth, known as the Great
Tribulation. After this, Christ's Millennial Kingdom will be established and "the glory
of the Lord will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea." After the conclusion of
His Millennial Reign, Christ will deliver up the Kingdom to God, the Father, that the
triune God may be all in all.