Statement of Faith

What we believe

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The following is the doctrinal statement for Fox Valley Christian Action.  All program staff (full-time and seasonal) and board members affirm these basic doctrinal statements.

We believe God is one being in three persons — God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.  He is the source of all creation (Gen. 1:1, John 1:1-2), which He sustains (Col. 1:17) and is in the process of redeeming (Rom. 8:19-22). God the Father loves us and desires that we have fellowship with Him as His children (I John 1:3).

We believe the Bible, the Old and New Testament Scriptures, is the uniquely inspired, infallible, and inerrant Word of God (2 Tim. 3:14-17; 2 Peter 1:16-21). The Bible is the rule of faith and practice for Christians. We affirm that Scripture is the authoritative revelation from God by which we know God’s will and Christ’s authority.

We believe Jesus is the incarnation of God the Son. He is the Word that became flesh (John 1:14), and He now holds all authority in heaven and on earth (Matt. 28:18). He is Savior and Lord. He made human salvation possible through His life, death on the cross, and resurrection. He ascended into heaven where He is now our high priest and advocate. He is head of the church.

We believe Human Beings were created by God to walk in fellowship with Him. However, all (except Jesus) have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23) and must rely on God’s grace and forgiveness. Every human from the moment of life (conception) is in the image of God (imago dei), a person to be nurtured, protected, and developed.

We believe Salvation is by God alone through Jesus Christ. One accepts Christ as Savior through a conversion process that includes faith, repentance, confession, and receiving God’s grace (Rom. 3:23-24, 10:9-10).

We believe the Holy Spirit works actively in the world, seeking to glorify Jesus. The Holy Spirit convicts people of sin, righteousness, and judgment to come (John 16:5-11). We believe that the Holy Spirit has a present ministry of guiding and enabling the Christian to proclaim the Good News of Christ and to minister to the whole person whose needs are physical, emotional, mental, psychological and spiritual.

We believe the Final Coming of Jesus is a time when Christ will personally come again as savior and judge of the world. At that time, there will be a bodily resurrection of the dead-believers to eternal life with God and unbelievers to eternal judgment. Sin will be no more and believers will live in fellowship with God forever (1 Thess. 4:13-18, Rev. 20:11-15).

We believe the Church is the body of Christ on earth, the community of believers throughout the world. The Church’s mission is the great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20).

We believe Marriage was established by God and we believe it to be a lifelong, exclusive relationship between one naturally biological man and one naturally biological woman and that all sexual activity outside the marriage relationship, whether heterosexual, homosexual, or otherwise, is immoral and therefore sin (Gen. 2:24-25; Ex. 20:14, 17, 22:19; Lev. 18:22-23, 20:13, 15-16; Matt. 19:4-6, 9; Rom. 1:18-31; I Cor.6:9-10, 15-20; I Tim. 1:8-11; Jude 7).  We believe that God created the human race male and female and that all conduct with the intent to adopt a gender other than one’s birth gender is immoral and therefore sin (Gen. 1:27; Deut. 22:5).

We believe The Lord’s Supper is the celebration of the New Covenant, in which the Christian community remembers Christ and celebrates the conventional relationship they have with Him and with each other (1 Cor. 11:17-34, Acts 20:7).