CHRISTIAN LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH Core Beliefs

Bible

We believe the Bible to be the complete inerrant Word of God.

• That the 66 books of the Old and New Testament were inspired by the Spirit of God as originally written
• That the Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and conduct · 2 Timothy 3:16

God

We believe in one God, Creator of all, Holy, Sovereign, Eternal, existing in three equal Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit

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 absolute and essential deity, 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 Adam was divinely created in the image of God

• 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

• The only way to God is through Jesus Christ our Lord John 14:6
• That by the Father, Christ voluntarily suffered a propitiatory death
• That justification is by faith alone, in Christ alone by 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

Rapture 

we believe the Lord Jesus Himself will come down from heaven will call His church and the dead in Christ shall rise first and we who are alive will be gather together with Him in the clouds.

• Biblical rapture of the church
• Will be transformed to a glorious body 1 Corinthians 15:51-52
• The Lord Jesus will come back for one church without blemish, spot or wrinkle Ephesians 5:27
• Every believer must at all times be ready

Second Coming of the Lord Jesus 

The Lord Jesus Christ will be publically coming back to establish His Kingdom on earth

• Personal return

Biblical Union  

We believe in the marriage of one man and one woman

• Biblical definition of marriage
• Biblical definition of family
• There are no perfect families