The Free Gift of the Gospel

We believe our need to be saved is a reality based on of our fallen state as sinners. We believe it is the mercy of God that He chose to freely offer to sinners the promises of life, salvation, and the Holy Spirit, which come from placing one’s faith in Jesus Christ alone in response to the Gospel. The Gospel is the Good News that Jesus Christ, the God-Man, lived a perfect life in obedience to God’s Law so that He might show Himself to be a sinless Savior and substitute for us; that He died a cruel death on the cross in shedding His blood to pay the penalty for our sins thereby suffering the wrath of God for sin; that He was buried, and on the third day He rose from the grave proving that our sins have been paid for; that He ascended forty days later to the Father’s right hand where He acts as our High Priest. Whereby the sinner having been aware of his sinful state by the Word and the Holy Spirit, trusts in Christ alone for this salvation. God freely justifies, adopts, sanctifies, forgives and pardons the sinner for His own glory. (Romans 3:1-26; 1 Corinthians 15:1-6; Ephesians 1:1-14; 1 Timothy 1:15)