Europe

CIY

STATEMENT OF FAITH

We believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Saviour and Lord, fully Divine and fully human, who was born of a virgin, ushered in God’s kingdom, and died in our place as a substitutionary sacrifice for our sins, bearing divine judgment, and reconciling to God all who trust in him. 

We believe in the physical resurrection and the Lordship of Jesus over heaven and earth, and we anticipate his return to judge and condemn evil and restore creation. 

We believe in the Holy Spirit, fully Divine and personally active in the church and in the world, who seals and indwells believers to sanctify, guide, and empower them for service in the kingdom.

We believe that all people, created as male and female, are made in God’s image with intrinsic value and purpose. We believe that all have sinned and are in need of salvation, which can only be found in Jesus’ sacrificial atonement for the sins of the world. 

We believe that salvation is offered to all by grace through faith in Jesus alone- a living faith that is demonstrated through repentance, confession, baptism, and which results in a life of obedience to the Lordship of Jesus.

We believe in one holy church, manifested through the work of local communities of disciples over which Christ is the head. We believe in the ministry of all disciples leveraging their gifts, talents, abilities, and influence to advance God’s kingdom by making disciples of all nations and teaching them to observe all that Christ commands. 

We believe that Scripture alone is the uniquely inspired Word of God, true and infallible in all that it affirms, and is therefore the qualified and final authority in all matters of faith and practices.