What We Believe

JSBC Statement of Faith

If you believe that God has called you into the ministry, it is imperative that your faith resides in Jesus Christ and Him crucified. It is vital you know that God has sent you. And, you must trust that God will provide for you regardless of circumstance.

We Believe

• The Bible is the inspired and only infallible and authoritative written Word of God (Psalm 119; Matthew 4:4; Luke 24:2).

• There is one God, eternally co-existent in three Persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (I John 5:7).

• In the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, in His personal future return to this earth in power and glory to rule a thousand years (John 1:1-4; Ephesians 2:13-18; Revelation Chapters 19-20).

• In the Blessed Hope - the Rapture of the Church at Christ’s Coming (I Thessalonians 4:13-18).

• The only means of being cleansed from sin is through repentance and faith in the precious blood of Christ (Romans 5:1; Ephesians 2:8-9, 13-18).

• Regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential for personal salvation (John 3:5-8; Titus 3:5).

• The redemptive work of Christ on the cross provides healing of the human body in answer to believing prayer (Exodus 15:25-26; James 5:14-15; I Peter 2:24).

• The Baptism with the Holy Spirit, with the evidence of speaking in other tongues according to Acts 2:4, is given to believers who ask for it (Acts 2:4; 10:44-46; 19:1-7).

• In the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit by Whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a holy life (Romans 6:3-14; 8:1-2,11).

• That God established marriage as a sacred institution between one natural-born man and one natural-born woman (Genesis 2:18-24, Matthew 19:4-6).

• That any form of sexual immorality, such as adultery, fornication, homosexuality, bisexual conduct, bestiality, incest, pornography or any attempt to change one’s sex, or disagreement with one’s biological sex, is sinful and offensive to God (Genesis 1:27, Leviticus 18, Deuteronomy 22:5, Deuteronomy 32:4, Jeremiah 1:5, Romans 1:18-32, 1 Corinthians 6:18-20, 1 Timothy 1:10).

• In the Resurrection of both the saved and the lost, the one to everlasting life and the other to everlasting damnation (Revelation 20:5-6, 11-15).