FOSA'S STATEMENT OF FAITH
- We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative, inerrant Word of God (II Timothy 3:16, II Peter 1:21).
- We believe there is one God, eternally existent in three persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Genesis 1:1, Matthew 28:19, John 10:30).
- We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ (John 10:33), His virgin birth (Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:23, Luke 1:35), His sinless life (Hebrews 4:15, 7:26), His miracles (John 2:11), His vicarious and atoning death (I Corinthians 15:3, Ephesians 1:7, Hebrews 2:9), His resurrection (John 11:25, I Corinthians 15:4), His ascension to the right hand of God (Mark 16:19), His personal return in power and glory (Acts 1:11; Revelation 19:11).
- We believe in the absolute necessity of regeneration by the Holy Spirit for salvation because of the exceeding sinfulness of human nature and that men are justified on the single ground of faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ and that only by God’s grace and through faith alone are we saved (John 3:16-19, 5:24; Romans 3:23, 5:8-9; Ephesians 2:8-10; Titus 3:5).
- We believe that if one acknowledges and confesses with their mouth that Jesus is Lord and believes in their heart that God raised Him from the dead, that person’s soul will be saved from hell (John 14:6; Romans 10:8-10).
- We believe that followers of Jesus Christ will be able to perform, and participate in, signs and wonders that bring glory to God as well as greater power and effectiveness to His church (Mark 16:16-18; 1 Corinthians 12:1-28).
- We believe that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as male or female, both genders reflecting the image and nature of God (Genesis 1:26-27).
- We believe that any form of sexual immorality (including adultery, fornication, homosexual behavior, bisexual conduct, bestiality, incest, use of pornography, etc.) is sinful and contrary to God’s created order (Matthew 15:18-20; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10).
- We believe that a right view of God’s idea expressed in the term “marriage” has only one meaning: the uniting of one man and one woman in a single, exclusive union, as delineated by Scripture (Genesis 2:18-25).