St. alban's episcopal church of auburndale Core Beliefs

Bible

We believe the Bible to be the authoritative Word of God for life and salvation.

• That the books of the Old and New Testament were inspired by the Spirit of God through human authors.
• That the Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and conduct · 2 Timothy 3:16

God

We believe that God is ONE, existing in three Persons in a DIvine Community of Love. Jesus is God and is the  Creator of all and even exists within creation to sustain creation and reveal Himself to humanity and all of the cosmos. We believe God has revealed himself to be holy perfect, as Divine Love itself, as existing in eternity and yet also in time. This revelation of the Godhead as "a community of Divine Love" as the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit engages and invites us to accept His redemption of us from a lost and fallen state of dark independence. 

Jesus Christ

We believe in the absolute and essential deity of our Lord Jesus Christ

• In His eternal existence, with the Father in pre-incarnate glory
• In His work of creation, in His virgin birth, sinless life, substitutionary death and bodily resurrection
• In His triumphant ascension, mediatorial ministry and personal return

The Holy Spirit

We believe in the essential divinity , and in the Personality of the Holy Spirit

• Who convinces of sin, of righteousness and of judgment
• Who regenerates, indwells, seals, sanctifies, illuminates and comforts those who believe in Jesus Christ
• Who baptizes believers at conversion into the Body of Christ and bestows upon them His gifts sovereignly as He wills and fills those yielded to Him

Mankind

We believe that human beings were, and are, created in the image of God to be "His image- bearers" to each other and the world

• That by the sin of disobedience he fell from that state
• That all his posterity inherited spiritual depravity and defilement
• That all men therefore are guilty before God and condemned to physical and spiritual death

Salvation

We believe that salvation is by the sovereign grace of God

• That by the Father, Christ voluntarily suffered a propitiatory death
• That justification is by faith alone in the all-sufficient sacrifice and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ
• That those whom God has effectually called shall be divinely preserved and ultimately perfected in the image of the Lord