Rejuvenate Retreats – Statement of Faith
The sole basis of our beliefs is the Bible, God’s infallible, written Word: the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments. We believe that it was uniquely and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, and that it is written without error (inerrant) in the original manuscripts. It is the supreme and final authority in all matters on which it speaks.
We accept those areas of doctrinal teaching on which, historically, there has been general agreement among all true Christians. Due to the nature of this ministry, we desire to allow for freedom of conviction on other doctrinal matters, provided that any interpretation is based upon the Bible alone, and that no such interpretation shall become an issue which hinders the ministry to which God has called us.
We explicitly affirm our belief in basic Bible teaching as follows:
- There is one true God, eternally existing in three persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – each of whom possess equally all the attributes of Deity and the characteristics of personality.
- God is omnipresent: He is everywhere and anywhere at once; God is omnipotent: He is all powerful and fully in control of all things. God is omniscient: He is all knowing, He knows everything past, present and future.
- Jesus Christ is God, the living Word, who became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit, being born to the virgin Mary. Hence, He is perfect deity and true humanity united in one person forever.
- Jesus of Nazareth lived a sinless life and voluntarily atoned for the sins of all people, by dying on the cross as their substitute and rising from the grave on the third day. This satisfied divine justice and accomplished salvation for all who trust in Him alone.
- He ascended bodily into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God the Father, where He, the only mediator between God and man, continually makes intercession for His own.
- Man (i.e. humanity) was originally created in the image of God. He sinned by disobeying God: thus, he was alienated from his Creator. That historic fall brought all mankind under divine condemnation.
- Because of the fall, man’s nature is corrupted, and he is thus totally unable to please God or have fellowship with Him. Every person is in need of spiritual regeneration and forgiveness of their sins, through Christ Jesus’ completed work on the cross in order to repair the relationship with God.
- The salvation of man is wholly the work of God’s free grace and is not the work, in whole or in part, of human works of goodness or religious ceremony. God imputes His righteousness to those who put their faith in Christ alone for their salvation, and thereby justifies them in His sight.
- It is the privilege of all who are born again of the Spirit to be assured of their salvation from the very moment in which they trust Christ as their Saviour. This assurance is not based upon any kind of human merit, but is produced by the witness of the Holy Spirit, who confirms in the believer the testimony of God in His written word.
- The Holy Spirit has come into the world to reveal and glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ to men. He convicts and draws sinners to Christ, imparts new life to them, continually indwells them from the moment of spiritual birth and seals them until the day of redemption. His fullness, power and control are appropriated in the believer’s life by faith.
- Every believer is called to live in the power of the indwelling Spirit, so that he will not fulfil the lust of the flesh but will bear fruit to the Glory of God.
- Jesus Christ is the head of the Church, His Body, which is composed of all people – living and dead – who have been joined to Him through saving grace.
- God admonishes his people to assemble together regularly for worship, fellowship, and Scriptural edification.
- At physical death the believer enters immediately into eternal fellowship with the Lord and awaits the resurrection of his body to everlasting glory and blessing.
- At physical death the unbeliever enters immediately into eternal separation from the Lord and awaits the resurrection of his body to everlasting judgement and condemnation.
- Jesus Christ will come again to the earth – personally, visibly and bodily – to consummate history and the eternal plan of God.
- The Lord Jesus Christ commanded all believers to proclaim the gospel throughout the world and to disciple men of every nation. The fulfilment of the Great Commission requires that all worldly and personal ambitions be subordinated to a total commitment to Christ, “who loved us and gave Himself for us.” (Eph 5:2)
