Mission Statement
Statesboro Worship is a joyful family that exists to glorify God and grow disciples through His Word.
Vision Statement
Statesboro Worship will invest in discipleship through a commitment to prayer, worship, study, and service to attract others and inspire them to grow a faithful relationship with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, as HE leads us.
Core Beliefs
God
There is but one, true, and living God. He is eternal, self-sufficient, omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent; perfect in holiness, truth, and love; having all life, goodness, and blessedness in and of Himself. In the unity of the Godhead, there are three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. They are the same in substance and nature, equal in power and glory—each having the whole divine essence without this essence being divided—yet distinct in ministry. This is the very foundation of our faith, life, and fellowship with God.
Scripture for reference: Genesis 1:1; Exodus 20:3; 34:5-7; Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 14:9; Matthew 16:17; 28:19; Luke 3:22; John 5:26; 14; 16-17; 2 Corinthians 13:4, 14; Ephesians 4:4-6.
Father
God as Father reigns with providential care over His universe, His creatures, and the flow of the stream of human history according to the purposes of His grace. He is all powerful, all knowing, all loving, and all wise. God is Father in truth to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ. He is fatherly in His attitude toward all men.
Scripture for reference: Genesis 1:1; 2:7; Exodus 3:14; 6:2-3; 15:11ff.; 20:1ff.; Leviticus 22:2; Deuteronomy 6:4; 32:6; 1 Chronicles 29:10; Psalm 19:1-3; Isaiah 43:3,15; 64:8; Jeremiah 10:10; 17:13; Matthew 6:9ff.; 7:11; 23:9; 28:19; Mark 1:9-11; John 4:24; 5:26; 14:6-13; 17:1-8; Acts 1:7; Romans 8:14-15; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Galatians 4:6; Ephesians 4:6; Colossians 1:15; 1 Timothy 1:17; Hebrews 11:6; 12:9; 1 Peter 1:17; 1 John 5:7.
Son
Christ is the Son of God present from eternity past. In His incarnation as Jesus Christ, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. Jesus perfectly revealed and did the will of God, taking upon Himself human nature with its demands and necessities and identifying Himself completely with mankind yet without sin. He honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and in His substitutionary death on the cross He made provision for the redemption of men from sin. He was raised from the dead with a glorified body and appeared to His disciples as the person who was with them before His crucifixion. He ascended into heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of the Father, where He is the one mediator, fully God, fully man, in whose Person is effected the reconciliation between God and man until he returns to judge all men at the last day.
Scripture for reference: Genesis 18:1ff.; Psalms 2:7ff.; 110:1ff.; Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 53:1-12; Matthew 1:18-23; 3:17; 8:29; 11:27; 14:33; 16:16,27; 17:5; 27; 28:1-6,19; Mark 1:1; 3:11; Luke 1:35; 4:41; 22:70; 24:46; John 1:1-18,29; 10:30,38; 11:25-27; 12:44-50; 14:7-11; 16:15-16,28; 17:1-5, 21-22; 20:1-20,28; Acts 1:9; 2:22-24; 7:55-56; 9:4-5,20; Romans 1:3-4; 3:23-26; 5:6-21; 8:1-3,34; 10:4; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 2:2; 8:6; 15:1-8,24-28; 2 Corinthians 5:19-21; 8:9; Galatians 4:4-5; Ephesians 1:20; 3:11; 4:7-10; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 1:13-22; 2:9; 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18; 1 Timothy 2:5-6; 3:16; Titus 2:13-14; Hebrews 1:1-3; 4:14-15; 7:14-28; 9:12-15,24-28; 12:2; 13:8; 1 Peter 2:21-25; 3:22; 1 John 1:7-9; 3:2; 4:14-15; 5:9; 2 John 7-9; Revelation 1:13-16; 5:9-14; 12:10-11; 13:8; 19:16.
Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is the spirit of God, fully divine. He inspired holy men of old to write the Scriptures. Through illumination He enables men to understand truth. He exalts Christ. He convicts men of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. He calls men to the Savior and effects regeneration. At the moment of regeneration, He baptizes every believer into the Body of Christ. He cultivates Christian character, comforts believers, and bestows the spiritual gifts by which they serve God through His church. His presence in the Christian is the guarantee that God will bring the believer into the fullness of the stature of Christ. He enlightens and empowers the believer and the church in worship, evangelism, and service.
Scripture for reference: Genesis 1:2; Judges 14:6; Job 26:13; Psalms 51:11; 139:7ff.; Isaiah 61:1-3; Joel 2:28-32; Matthew 1:18; 3:16; 4:1; 12:28-32; 28:19; Mark 1:10,12; Luke 1:35; 4:1,18-19; 11:13; 12:12; 24:49; John 4:24; 14:16-17,26; 15:26; 16:7-14; Acts 1:8; 2:1-4,38; 4:31; 5:3; 6:3; 7:55; 8:17,39; 10:44; 13:2; 15:28; 16:6; 19:1-6; Romans 8:9-11,14-16,26-27; 1 Corinthians 2:10-14; 3:16; 12:3-11,13; Galatians 4:6; Ephesians 1:13-14; 4:30; 5:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:19; 1 Timothy 3:16; 4:1; 2 Timothy 1:14; 3:16; Hebrews 9:8,14; 2 Peter 1:21; 1 John 4:13; 5:6-7; Revelation 1:10; 22:17.
The Bible
The Holy Bible consists of the canonical books of the Old and New Testaments, all written by men chosen and inspired by God. The scriptures therein are God’s revelation of absolute truth to man. The Bible is inerrant and infallible in the original writings, totally sufficient, and the authoritative and normative rule and guide of all Christian life, practice, and doctrine. Scripture is to be received through the Holy Spirit as the true rule and guide for faith and practice. Whatever is not revealed in or established by the Holy Scriptures is not to be made an article of faith nor is it to be taught as essential to salvation. The Bible contains all things necessary to salvation, so that anything not in it, nor proven by it, is not to be required of any man as an article of faith or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation. The Old Testament and the New Testament agree as Christ is the focus of both: the Old Testament providing a complete background for the Gospel message of the New Testament.
Scripture for reference: Psalm 19:7-11, 119:142,160, 199:140; John 5:46, 17:17; Luke 24:27, 1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Tim. 3:14-17; Hebrews 4:12; 2 Peter 1:19-21.
Sin
Sin is the violation of God’s commandments to love Him with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our mind and with all our strength and to love our neighbors as ourselves. God created man in His own image to know, love, enjoy, and glorify Him. In the beginning man was innocent of sin and was endowed by his Creator with freedom of choice. By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. Through the temptation of Satan, man rejected the command of God and fell from his original innocence, resulting in physical and spiritual death. From that original sin, mankind inherited a nature and an environment inclined toward sin and is destitute of holiness. Therefore, as soon as they are capable of moral action, men become transgressors and are under condemnation. They are at enmity with God, completely unable to please Him or be reconciled to Him through any merit of their own. Sin separates one from God, who abhors sin. God did not spare angels when they sinned but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until judgment. Likewise, He will not spare man, who He created in His image but who turned from God to sin. By his own strength, without divine grace, a person cannot overcome sin. Only the grace of God can bring man into holy fellowship with God and enable man to overcome sin and fulfill God’s purpose.
Scripture for reference: Genesis 1:26-27, 2:17, 3:1-7,19; Isaiah 64:6; Jeremiah 17:9; Matthew 15:19; Mark 12:30-31; John 3;19; Rom. 1:18, 3:10-19,23, 5:12-14, 8:7-8; Ephesians 2:1-3, 5:5-6.
Salvation
God loves us so much that He sent his only son Jesus Christ to be the path of redemption from the penalty of sin owed by all men. Jesus is the only man to ever live a sin free life. He perfectly followed the will and direction of the Father in all respects. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father except through him. Jesus is the only access to God and salvation. There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. Good works cannot save us neither can our positions in the church or among men. Salvation from the penalty for sin is offered freely to all who repent of their sins and accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ. Repentance is a genuine turning from sin toward God. Faith is the acceptance of Jesus Christ and commitment to Him as Lord and Savior.
All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. God demonstrates His love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ and there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Scripture for reference: John 3:16, 14:6; Acts 4:12; Romans 3:10-23; 5:8; 6:23; 8:1,38,39; 10:9-13.
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