Summary of Our Christian Faith

Worldwide Church of God

• In one holy, loving, all-powerful, and gracious Creator God who exists in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

• The Bible is the inspired and infallible Word of God, fully authoritative for all matters of faith and practice.

• Jesus Christ, born of the virgin Mary, fully God and fully human, is both Lord and Savior.

• Jesus Christ suffered and died on the cross for human sin, was raised bodily on the third day, and ascended to heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father.

• Jesus Christ will come again to judge the living and the dead and to reign over all His creation.

• The Holy Spirit brings sinners to repentance, and gives eternal life to believers, and who lives in them to conform them to the image of Jesus Christ.

• Christians should gather in regular fellowship and live lives of faith that make evident the good news that humans enter the kingdom of God by putting their trust in Jesus Christ.

• In the spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.

• Salvation comes not by works, but only by God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ.

• In the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.