STATEMENT OF FAITH

• We believe that the Bible is the divinely inspired Word of God, the only infallible rule of faith and practice.
• We believe in one God, eternally existent in three persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – one in essence and community.
• We believe in God the Father, the almighty Creator of heaven and earth.
• We believe that Jesus Christ our Lord is the Word made flesh – fully God and fully man. We believe he was conceived by the Holy Spirit, was born of the virgin Mary, lived a sinless life, was crucified, died and was buried, rose again on the third day, and ascended into heaven.
• We believe in the divinity of the Holy Spirit, who indwells the believer. The Holy Spirit convicts of sin, enables the believer to live a holy life, comforts, teaches, and bestows spiritual gifts.
• We believe humanity is created in the image of God, has fallen into sin, and can be born again by the Spirit, justified freely by grace, and saved through the atoning work of Jesus Christ alone.
• We believe that the Church is the body of Christ, the people of God, whose mission is to make disciples of all nations and to be salt and light in the world.
• We believe baptism, and the Lord’s supper, to be ordinances of the Church.
• We believe in the return of Jesus Christ, the resurrection of the body, the final judgment, everlasting life, and the new heavens and new earth.
• We believe that God’s intent in creating human sexuality is that when male and female are joined together, they are one flesh (See I Corinthians 6:15-18). Hence, outside monogamous heterosexual marriage there can be no biblically moral expression of human sexuality. This is to say that all other so-called “alternate lifestyles” and/or sexual expressions are immoral sin and in need of the grace, mercy, and forgiveness of God. The view that one chooses one’s own identity is inconsistent with Scripture, and has no place on Scotland Campus. Scripture alone is the basis from which our fundamental understanding of our identity is properly defined, and the only basis upon which our organization operates.