What We Believe
CAMPUS OUTREACH BASIC DOCTRINAL STATEMENT
Note: This is a basic evangelical doctrinal statement that is consistent with what we believe. Yet, it is far from saying all that we believe. For a better/fuller understanding of COs Theological orientation please see section #2 Theological Considerations above.
God is one Being existing in three persons the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. God is the Sovereign, the Creator, and the Sustainer of all things. God is the Source and end of all truth.
The Scriptures are the written Word of God, inerrant in their original writings, the infallible authority by which He directs and governs all our activities.
Jesus Christ is the eternal begotten Son of God, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, truly God and truly Man. Through Christ's perfect life, substitutionary death, physical resurrection and bodily ascension, He accomplished a decisive victory over sin for His people and established His kingdom among men.
The Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Godhead, eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son, coming 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, continually indwells them from the moment of spiritual birth and brings fullness, power, and control to the believer.
Man was created in the image of God as a rational, moral, and spiritual being. Man sinned in Adam and fell with him in his first transgression. Man's fall affected him spiritually, intellectually, and physically. He is restored as a gift only by the renewing grace of the Holy Spirit and the cleansing blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Church is composed of all men, living and dead, who have been joined to Christ through placing their faith in Him alone. The visible church, in teaching the Scriptures, administering the Sacraments, and exercising discipline to it's members, is God's ordained vehicle for leading His body, the people of God, in worship of the Godhead and in fulfilling Christ's mission to make disciples of all nations. God instructs His people to assemble together regularly for worship, edification, and encouragement.
The Lord Jesus will return personally and visibly in glory and triumph to the earth for the consummation of this age and His Kingdom, and to bring to pass the final judgment.
