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Our Core BELIEFS

Crosspoint Church Altavista is a Church whose faith and practice strives to be:

We believe the Bible to be the verbally inspired Word of God,inerrant in the original manuscripts, and the

sufficent and final authority for all matters of faith, practice, and life (2 Timothy 3:16).

We believe God is triune, being three in person and one in essence. The Father, Son, and Spirit are

equally God but are three in person. This God is the center of our worship (Matthew 28:19-20).

We believe in the sovereign rule of the Father who assumes headship of all that He created and

continues to care and sustain in providence all that exists (Isaiah 40).

We believe that the eternal Son took on human flesh, being born of a virgin, and that Jesus Christ is truly

God and truly man, the only mediator between God and man (Matthew 1:23-25, 1 Timothy 2:5,Philippians

2:5-7).

We believe in the Holy Spirit sent by Father and the Son, who is eternally God, and who administers

grace as he convicts of sin, giving us a new birth, and works to make us holy. (John 14:16-17; Acts 1:8)

We believe that all have sinned and are under the condemnation of death (Romans 3:23 and 6:23).

We believe that salvation is only by grace through faith and that true faith in the gospel will be made

evident by a life of godliness, which is only possible by walking as Jesus walked by the power of the Spirit of

God and by participation with the community of the saints (Acts 2:42, Ephesians 2:10,

Philippians 2:12,Hebrews 10:25, 1John 2:3-6).

We believe that Jesus, according to the will of God the Father, offered Himself as a substitutionary

sacrifice and that all who are believing in Him have eternal life. On the cross, Jesus defeated evil, sin, and

death. He shed His blood so that those who repent and believe will have life in Him as their Lord and Savior

(John 3:16, Romans 10:9-10).

We believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus as the first fruits of our resurrection and His ascension into

heaven to the right hand of the Father. (1Corinthians 15:1-8).

We believe that baptism is a faithful response to God's grace, signifying one's identification with Christ

and His church and that the church's privilege is to commune with God and His people in celebrating the

Lord's Supper (Acts 2:38-42, Matthew 28:19, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26).

We believe that the church is the pillar and foundation of the truth, sharing in God's redemptive mission

through proclamation of the gospel by word and deed, resulting in transformed lives committed to God's

glory. The church is the community where the people of God share their lives in fellowship with God and

each other (1 Timothy 3:15, Matthew 28:19-20).

We believe in a coming day where all people will stand before God to hear His verdict concerning their

eternal destiny, either heaven or hell (Revelation 20:11-15).

“in essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, and in all things charity,”