My Confession of Faith
| I believe as follows; |
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| Bible | |
| The Bible is written being inspired by God.
It is the only standard of my faith. In a view, the Bible was written by writers inspired of God's will to this world. In another view, The writers wrote it with faith in the association with God, when he met and faced God in many things in history. The Bible reveals Christ and His salvation. The Bible is the Words of God. When I read it with faith, Holy Spirit talks to me and indicates God's will. I follow the Bible. |
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| God | |
| I believe in God revealed as the Father,
the Son and the Holy Spirit. I confess that
He is my Lord. God the Father is the creator and the ruler of the universe. He is the Almighty God. He creates all things for His purposes and makes them live according to His objects. |
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| Jesus Christ | |
| I believe that Jesus Christ is my Lord. Jesus Christ came down from heaven for us, was born from the Virgin Mary by Holy Spirit and lived in obedience to God as a man who carried whole sufferings on Him. During His life as a man, He preached the gospel, which is coming of the kingdom of God and righteousness of God filled with love of God, showed the way of liberation from all evils biding people, healed their diseases and made demons out with His authority and His power. He helped to every weakness of people, lived with weak and oppressed people. He showed entirely the love of God. Jesus Christ died on the Cross as a substitute to forgive our sin. He fell down to the hell and rose from death on the third day. He gave the believers the forgiveness of sin, the eternal life and the hope of resurrection. After He showed Himself to His disciples and gave them the mission, He rose up to heaven. Now He is alive. He is sitting on the throne at right of God and rules the world as the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Now Jesus Christ walk with us who believe in Him through the work of Holy Spirit. He encourages us, heals us and sets us free. |
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| Holy Spirit | |
| I believe in Holy Spirit. He is the spirit
of God and Christ. He is God with personality. After the ascension of Christ, Holy Spirit came down to His church and His believers on Pentecost day as promised by Christ. He gave them power of mission and clarified the truth of the gospel of Christ. He works to give us faiths in order that we live the new life in Christ. When we believes in Lord, Holy Spirit lives in us. He is guaranty of eternal life of us. Holy Spirit gives us each gift in order that we make fruits of Spirit.He helps us who have insufficient faith, comforts us, renews us everyday, fills us, works directly to the inside of us and uses us as the vessels to show the glory of God. And Holy Spirit changes us to have a character similar to Christ. He responses to our prayer, talks to us, works to us and shows the will God through the Bible, our ideas and various events. |
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| Human Being | |
| A human being was created as those who has
free will in the image of God. We were
created
to live in the love of God in the association
with God. But as we abused our freedom
given
by God and committed Sin, we cannot
directly
face God and fall down under control
of Satan.
We have sin by nature. We cannot be
saved
of our deeds or efforts because of
our sin
and weakness. However, God is so graceful to have redeemed us through the cross of Jesus Christ. He forgave us entirely and prepared the way for us to live as those who are saved. When we repent and believe Jesus Christ the Lord and His gospel, we become God's children by His grace without paying not because of our deeds but of our faith only. God gives us eternal life and make us live in the association with God by Holy Spirit. |
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| Church | |
| I believe in the only Church that consists
of the nations of God's kingdom. Church is the community of those who called by God. It is the body of Christ, which proclaims the coming of His kingdom and acts toward its realization. Every believer in church is a part of His body and is given each role by God. We love, serve and accept each other. We cooperate to build the body of Christ. Church is commission to preach the gospel. Every believer is given each gift, calling and role by Holy Spirit. But we do not grade ourselves lower and higher than each other. Every church should be individual and does not rule each other. But we accept distinctions of each other and are parts of the same one body of Christ. We dare to cooperate each other. Church should not fawn at this world and should carry the burden of this world just in this world. |
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| Important Ceremonies | |
| Baptism and Lord's supper are special important
ceremonies. Baptism is given to those who confess that he believes Christ as his savior. It demonstrates that he was died with Christ and live newly with Christ. To sink into the water is the most suitable manner of baptism. Lord's supper is held to memorize death of Christ on the cross and to confirm continuously that a human being can live a God's life only by His death. To give each other the bread and wine, which express the body and the blood of Christ, reminds us that our community is bound to God. |
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| Worship | |
| Worship in the service is the most important
for believes. We offer the praises and the
prayers, confirm us to belong to Lord and
are given the power to live in this world.
It is the base of life to worship God with
my brothers and sisters in church once in
a week. |
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| Church and Politics | |
| Though the political powers and systems exist
to establish order in this society and keep
our life under the rule of God, they should
not control any individual conscience. We
should not forget that the church had been
away from God and down to corruption when
it followed the wishes of the political powers.
So, I insist on the freedom of religion and
the separation of religion from politics.
But the church should pray that politics
would meet the God's will. We believers belonging
to church should not be far from this world.
We willingly have our responsibilities of
this world and serve as "the salt on
the earth and light to this world",
being supported by the love of Lord. |
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| The End of the Age | |
| This sinful world shall end and the end of
the age shall come when Jesus Christ will
come again. That day Christ will judge the
living and the dead, and the kingdom of God
will complete. Satan will die and sin will
destroy. Those who died having hope and faith
on God will rise again with his body. Those
who believes will enter into perfect salvation.
Eternal world of love will realize, where
we can face God and go along with God. I
am waiting the coming of the kingdom of God. |
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| （Apr.,1993 by watasan） | |
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