Our Statement of FAith
Essential Beliefs
Since its beginning in 1965, the Home of Grace has firmly stood on the foundation of God’s Holy Word. The following statements represent the core tenets of our faith and what we have established organizationally as absolute truths of scripture.
- We hold the Bible to be the divinely inspired, infallible and authoritative Word of God.
- We believe in one true God, existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
- We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His imminent, personal return in power and glory.
- We hold that man was created in the image of God, holy and innocent in his original form; that of his own choice, has sinned, and, as a result, brought death, corruption and divine condemnation upon all humanity. Man, by his own work or merit, is incapable of satisfying the judgment of God. Those who are not redeemed by Jesus Christ are eternally separated from God.
- We hold that we are saved by grace through faith, apart from works, that the sinner who repents and personally accepts that finished work of Christ–and Christ alone–becomes a child of God, is made a new creature, and is indwelled by the Holy Spirit.
- We believe God wonderfully and immutably created each person as either biologically male or female, and through His perfect design, has so instituted the sexual and intimate union of these two sexes exclusively and monogamously within the covenant of marriage.
Non-Essential Beliefs
Because the Home of Grace is composed of staff and volunteers from various Christian denominations, we hold loosely to the various views that fall outside the core tenets of faith. We believe these doctrinal differences do not divide us but unite us in a common pursuit of God’s holy truths. These non-essential views include, but are not limited to:
- Eschatology: how and when the end times will unfold, the rapture, the Millenium, etc.
- Earth age: young vs. old earth creationism, etc.
- Bible translation: King James vs. modern translations, word-for-word vs. thought-for-thought, etc.
- Ecclesiology: church government, the roles of clergy and laity, modern apostles and prophets, etc.
- Soteriology: predestination (election) vs free will, Arminianism vs. Calvinism, etc.
- Demonology: can a Christian be possessed by a demon or not, types of spiritual warfare, etc.
- Sacrament practices: wine vs. grape juice, leavened vs. unleavened bread, who can administer, etc.
- Modes of baptism: sprinkling vs. full immersion, infant baptism, etc.
- Worship styles: liturgical vs. contemporary, hymns vs. choruses, choirs, drums vs. organs, etc.
- Gifts of the Holy Spirit: tongues vs. no tongues, cessationism vs. continuationism, etc.