What We Believe
GOD
There is only One eternal, all-powerful, all-knowing, and everywhere-present Triune God–Father, Son, and Holy Spirit–who is the creator and sustainer of all things. He desires to have a personal relationship with all who will respond to Him. (Deut 6:4-5; 1 Tim 2:5)
JESUS CHRIST
Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human. He lived a sinless life, died to make atonement for the sins of all minkind, was resurrected, and is now mediator at the right hand of the Father. He is coming again in power and glory for His believing followers, and is the only Savior of mankind. (John 1:1, 14; Tit 2:11-14)
HOLY SPIRIT
He convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, regenerating all who repent of their sins and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. He sanctifies, empowers, teaches, guides, and comforts the believers. (John 16:7, 8, 12-15)
BIBLE
The Bible is the inerrant, divinely inspired Word of God and authoritative in all matters it addresses. (2 Tim 3:16; 2 Pet 1:20-21)
SALVATION
Salvation is the result of genuine repentance of sin and faith in the atoning work of Christ. It brings forgiveness to the repentant, makes him a participant of the diving nature, and gives peace with God. We call this the new birth. (Tit 3:5; 1 Pet 1:3-5)
CHURCH
We believe in the invisible and universal Church as the living Body of Christ. It is composed of all believers in the Lord Jesus who have been vitally united by faith to Christ, its living Head and sovereign Lord. (Matt 16:18; Heb 12:22-24)
ORDINANCES
We believe there are two Christian ordinances: baptism and the Lord’s Supper. We believe they are outward rites appointed by Christ to be administered in each church, not as a means of salvation, but as a visible sign and seal of its reality. (Acts 8:36; 1 Cor 11:24-34)
STATEMENT ON MARRIAGE, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY
We believe that God has ordained marriage and defined it as the covenant relationship between a man, a woman, and Himself. Northeast Missionary Church will only recognize marriages between a biological man and a biological woman.
We believe that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as male or female. These two distinct, complemantary genders together reflect the image and nature of God (Gen 1:26-27). Rejection of one’s biological sex is a rejection of the image of God within that person.
We believe that the term “marriage” has only one meaning: the uniting of one biological man and one biological woman in a single, exclusive union, as delineated in Scripture (Gen 2:18-25). We believe that God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman who are married to each other (1 Cor 6:18, 7:2-5; Heb 13:4). We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman.
We believe that any form of sexual immorality (including adultery, fornication, homosexual behavior, bisexual conduct, beastiality, incest, and use of pornography) is sinful and offensive to God (Matt 15:18-20; 1 Cor 6:9-10).
STATEMENT ON SANCTITY OF LIFE
We believe that all human life is sacred and created by God in His image. Human life is of inestimable worth in all its dimensions, including pre-born babies, the aged, the physically or mentally challenged, and every other stage or condition from conception through natural death. We are therefore called to defend, protect, and value all human life (Psalm 139:1-24).