Our Beliefs

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CCU Core Beliefs

"Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all." -Ephesians 4:2-6

The Word

We believe the Old and New Testament to be the complete Word of God.

One God & Father

We believe in the one God and Father of the Scriptures.

One Lord

We believe Jesus is Lord

  • Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life 
  • The Lord is the image of the invisible God, firstborn over all creation.
  • By him all things were created, both heaven and earth
  • All things hold together through him
  • He is head of the body, the Church
  • All the fullness of God dwells in him
  • He was with God in the beginning, He is the Word that became flesh and dwelled amoung humankind  
  • In His work of creation, born of a virgin, sinless life.
  • We Crucified both Lord and Christ  
  • In His Resurrection, God Raised Him from the Dead.  
  • He Commissions his followers to go make disciples, baptize them & teach them to obey.
  • John 14:6, Colossians 1:15-18, John 1:1-2,14, John 17:5, Acts 2:36, Acts 2:23-24, Matthew 28:18-20

One Spirit

We believe in the counsel and guidance of the Holy Spirit of which we must keep in step.

One Hope

We believe in the hope that comes
  • We rejoice in the hope of the glory of God for all whom have gained access by faith through securely standing in his grace
  • We rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance, character and character hope.
  • Hope does not disappoint us because God poured out his love into the hearts of those that would follow him by the Holy Spirit.
  • We have great reason to believe that there is sufficient evidence that Jesus lived and was indeed an historical figure. We believe the evidence of the Bible as an historical document is overwhelming. This gives us great hope. 
  • We have a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 
  • We have an heavenly inheritance that never perishes, spoils or fades and shielded by God until the coming of salvation that is ready to be revealed at the last time.
  • We are joyful in hope!
  • Romans 5:1-8, 1Peter 3:15-16, 1 Peter 1:3-5, 2 Thessalonians 2:16, Romans 12:12

ONE Body

We believe the Body of Christ is the Church 'Universal' with Jesus as the Head
  • The Body is a Unit, different parts, we all play different roles, the weaker parts we are to treat with special care. 
  • We are supporting ligaments
  • Jews and Gentiles alike are, co-heirs apart of the same body. 
  • We are all baptized into one body.
  • After the message of the gospel has been heard, believed in, what happens is unmistakable respentance followed by baptism for the forgiveness of sin, then a person is added to the body, the Church. 
  • The Body is devoted to the apostles teaching, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and prayer
  • Jesus is the head of the body
  • 1 Corinthians 12:12-27, Ephesians 4-15-16, Ephesians 3:6, 1 Corinthians 12:13 , Acts 2:36-41, Acts 2:42-45, Colossians 1:18

ONE Faith

We believe that faith pleases God, faith acknowledges that He exists.

  • Faith Comes from Hearing the Word of God
  • Our Faith is based on the fact that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah
  • The miraculous signs written in the Gospel are so that we may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God
  • It is impossible to please God without faith.
  • Our Faith is a faith that called Noah to act, he obeyed and built an ark as God had commanded.
  • Our Faith is a faith that called Abraham to leave his country and his people and go to the land he would show him. God told Abraham that he would make him into a great nation and that he would bless him, and that all peoples on earth would be blessed through him Abraham believed, obeyed and went.  His faith led him to action.  This would later lead to Jesus!
  • Our faith is living. Faith works together with action therefore faith without action is dead. 
  • Faith is made complete by what we do, by our obedience. Obedience to God through Christ.
  • We are justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ and what he did on the cross, we gain access by faith into this grace.
  • Our faith is a faith that can grow.
  • Romans 10:17, John 8:24, John 20:30-31, Hebrews 11:6, Genesis 6:9-7:5, Genesis 12:1-4, Matthew 1:2, Luke 3:34, James 2:20-26, Romans 5:1-2. 2 Thessalonians 1:3

ONE Baptism

We believe that baptism is the faith response to the gospel of God's grace not on our merit but through the work of God.

  • Baptism is our faith response to the gospel message.
  • We are called to repent and be baptized.
  • Baptism is where you wash your sins away and call on Christ name
  • Baptism is where we clothe ourselves in Christ
  • Baptism into Christ is where we are burried into his death, fully immersed into water, and just as He was raised from the dead so we are raised out of the water to a new life.
  • Jesus saves us through baptism into water as a pledge of a good conscience toward God
  • Jesus commanded us to go make disciples and baptize them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and to teach them to obey everything he taught.
  • Acts 2:41,Acts 2:37-39,Acts 22:10-16,Galatians 3:27, Romans 6:1-7, 1 Peter 3:21-22,Matthew 28:18-20