Mission (our ongoing focus):

To be actively engaged in discipling tomorrow’s church today.

Vision (our goals for the future):

We want to be a church where our discipleship efforts lead people into a vibrant relationship with Christ and into growth and maturity in these key areas:

Every attender engages in an established discipleship pathway

• Prayer is the most consistent activity of the church

• Marriages flourish and grow

• Parents are supported as they intentionally disciple their children

• Members routinely spend time together in community throughout the week

• Weary ministry workers are cared for and uplifted

In short: we’re aiming to become a church of mature disciples who are willing to faithfully embrace biblical truth even when it’s uncomfortable.

Core Values (our unique role in the kingdom):

Robust Theology
(Titus 2:1-8)
Spirit-empowered, sound understanding of orthodox doctrine is a necessary foundation for wise gospel ministry.

Biblical Hospitality
(Acts 2:42-47)
A main way we display the transforming impact of the gospel is through relational intentionality and warm hospitality.

Intentional Discipleship
(Matthew 28:18-20)
We are called to equip others to apply the truth of Scripture to the challenges and joys of everyday life.

Foundational Commitments (what we are committed to):

• Scripture as our inerrant rule of faith and practice

• Maintaining a healthy team of Elders (aided by Deacons) who love and lead well

• In-person, corporate gatherings marked by prayer, worship, and faithful exegetical Bible teaching

• Sharing corporate communion regularly

• Publicly celebrating believer’s faith through baptism

• Giving and going sacrificially as faithful followers of Jesus

• Missional engagement in the neighborhoods and the nations among all peoples

• Prioritizing fellowship inside and outside the church building

• A biblical, historic sexual ethic

• The Bible’s teaching of complementarity between men and women

Statement of Faith

Preamble

We, the members of Faith Community Church, joyfully confess together that the triune God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—has revealed Himself in the Holy Scriptures and in the person of Jesus Christ (2 Tim. 3:16-17, Heb. 1:1-3, John 1:1-18). In a culture marked by confusion about truth and identity, we affirm that truth corresponds to reality because it proceeds from the God who is there and who speaks (Ps. 19:1-4, John 17:17). The Scriptures are fully true and authoritative, and the gospel of Jesus Christ is the power of God for salvation and the hope of the world (Rom. 1:16-17, John 14:6).

This Statement of Faith expresses what the Bible teaches, shapes our life together as a church, and guides our worship, discipleship, mission, and engagement with our community (Jude 3).

I. The Holy Scriptures

We believe the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments are the inspired, infallible, and authoritative Word of God. The Scriptures are “God-breathed,” written by human authors who were “carried along by the Holy Spirit”. Because God cannot lie, His Word is completely true in all it affirms.

The meaning of Scripture is rooted in the historical intentions of its authors and is not to be curated by current cultural preference. While applications vary across times and cultures, the meaning of the biblical text does not change. Therefore, it is not legitimate to infer a fundamental meaning that would be foreign to the author’s original readers.

Scripture is the supreme and final authority in all matters of faith and practice. In areas not directly addressed by Scripture, we seek to apply biblical wisdom in ways consistent with its teaching and its interpretation by the orthodox, historical Church.

We affirm that biblical truth is both propositional and relational. Scripture conveys truth through doctrine, narrative, poetry, prophecy, and promise. Its purpose is not merely to inform our minds but also to bring us into joyful submission to God. With the help of the indwelling Holy Spirit, believers can truly know and confidently trust what God has revealed.

2 Timothy 3:16–17 – Scripture is God-breathed

2 Peter 1:19–21 – Men spoke from God carried by the Spirit

Psalm 119:89, 160 – The enduring truth of God’s Word

Matthew 5:17–18 – The enduring authority of Scripture

John 10:35 – “Scripture cannot be broken”

Isaiah 40:8 – The Word stands forever

II. God

We believe in the one living and true God, eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. These three persons are coequal, coeternal, and consubstantial—sharing the same undivided divine nature while remaining personally distinct and worthy of all glory and worship. This inherent glory of God is a direct reason for the joy of God’s people.

Each Person of the Trinity is fully and completely God. Within the fellowship of the Trinity, God has eternally existed in perfect love, joy, and glory. God does all things according to the counsel of His will for the display of His glory and the everlasting joy of His redeemed people.

Deuteronomy 6:4 – The Lord is one

Matthew 28:19 – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

2 Corinthians 13:14 – Trinitarian blessing

John 1:1–3 – The deity of the Son

John 14:16–17, 26 – The Holy Spirit

Colossians 2:9 – Fullness of deity in Christ

Acts 5:3–4 – The Spirit as God

III. Creation and Providence

God created the universe out of nothing (ex-nihilo) by the word of His power. He created all things visible and invisible, ultimately, for His glory. Humanity was created in the image of God, male and female, both biological genders being equal in dignity and worth, yet distinct (and complementary) in design and calling.

God providentially sustains and governs all things. He sovereignly works all things according to the counsel of His will, yet in such a way that He is never the author of sin nor does He violate the moral responsibility of His creatures.

Genesis 1–2 – Creation of all things

Job 1:13, 34:12 – Moral responsibility

John 1:1-3 – All things made through Christ

Colossians 1:16–17 – Christ sustains all things

Psalm 24:1 – The earth belongs to the Lord

Hebrews 11:3 – The word of God creates

Hebrews 1:3 – Upholding the universe

Ephesians 1:11 – God works all things according to His will

IV. Humanity and Human Identity

We believe that every human being is created in the image of God and therefore possesses inherent dignity, value, and worth from the moment of conception until natural death – recognizing that life begins at conception. Human life is a sacred gift from God and must be protected, cherished, and treated with honor at every stage.

God created humanity as two distinct and complementary biological sexes—male and female—which are immutable gifts of His wise and good design. These distinctions are not accidental or self-determined but are rooted in God's created order and are to be received with gratitude and lived out for His glory.

We believe that marriage is God's covenantal design for one biological man and one biological woman. Within this covenant alone, God has ordained sexual intimacy as good and holy. Any sexual activity outside the covenant of marriage—including adultery, fornication, homosexual practice, and all other forms of sexual immorality—is contrary to God's revealed will.

At the same time, we affirm that every person is worthy of love, compassion, dignity, and respect because each bears the image of God. We acknowledge that all people, ourselves included, are sinners in need of God's grace. The gospel of Jesus Christ offers forgiveness, transformation, and new life to all who repent and believe.

Genesis 1:26–28 – Humanity created in God's image, male and female

Genesis 2:18–25 – Marriage established by God

Psalm 139:13–16 – God's care for life in the womb

Jeremiah 1:5 – God's knowledge before birth

Matthew 19:4–6 – Jesus affirms marriage as male and female

Romans 1:24–27 – Sexual sin and God's design

1 Corinthians 6:9–11 – Transformation through the gospel

Ephesians 5:31–32 – Marriage reflects Christ and the Church

V. Humanity, Sin, and the Fall

We believe that our first parents (Adam and Eve) were created holy and at peace with God. Through willful disobedience, they fell into sin, bringing guilt, corruption, and death to themselves and to all their descendants.

As a result of the Fall into sin, all human beings are now sinful by nature and are sinful by choice. Because of our sin, apart from Christ we are spiritually dead, separated from God, and unable to save ourselves. Sin affects every aspect of human life—individual and corporate—bringing brokenness to our relationship with God, with one another, and with creation itself.

All people stand justly condemned apart from God’s saving grace.

Genesis 1-3 – Creation and the Fall

Romans 3:10–23 – Universal sinfulness

Romans 5:12–19 – Sin through Adam

Ephesians 2:1–3 – Dead in trespasses and sins

Jeremiah 17:9 – The deceitful heart

VI. Jesus the Messiah

Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God who took on human flesh without ceasing to be God. Conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, He is fully God and fully man in one Person.

Jesus the Christ lived a sinless life in perfect obedience to the Father. In His death on the cross, He bore the penalty for our sins as our substitute, satisfying the just wrath of God and accomplishing redemption for His people. His atoning death was once for all.

On the third day, He rose bodily from the grave, triumphing over sin, Satan, and death. He ascended into heaven, where He now reigns at the right hand of the Father as our Lord, High Priest, and Advocate. He will return personally, visibly, and gloriously to judge the living and the dead and to consummate His kingdom. Jesus is man’s only means by which we receive salvation.

John 1:14 – The Word became flesh

Philippians 2:5–11 – Christ’s incarnation and exaltation

Colossians 1:15–20 – Supremacy of Christ

Hebrews 4:15 – Sinless High Priest

Isaiah 53:4–6 – Substitutionary atonement

2 Corinthians 5:21 – Made sin for us

1 Corinthians 15:3–8 – Death and resurrection

Acts 1:9–11 – Ascension and return

John 14:6 – Jesus is the only way

VII. The Saving Work of the Holy Spirit

As the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit applies the saving work of Christ to God’s people. He convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. He regenerates the spiritually dead, granting new birth and enabling repentance and faith.

The Holy Spirit indwells every believer, uniting us to Christ and sealing us for the day of redemption. He illuminates the Scriptures, guides us into all truth, empowers obedience, produces spiritual fruit, and distributes gifts for the building up of the church.

Christian growth is not merely the transfer of information but the transformation of the whole person through the Word and Spirit in the context of Christian community.

John 3:3–8 – New birth by the Spirit

John 16:8–15 – Conviction and guidance

Titus 3:5–6 – Regeneration

Romans 8:9–16 – Indwelling Spirit

1 Corinthians 12:4–11 – Spiritual gifts

Galatians 5:22–23 – Fruit of the Spirit

Ephesians 1:13–14 – Sealed by the Spirit

VIII. Salvation

Salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. Justification is God’s gracious act by which He forgives our sins and declares us righteous on the basis of Christ’s righteousness imputed to us.

Faith is a gift of God and consists in receiving and resting upon Christ alone for salvation. Those whom God justifies He also sanctifies, progressively conforming them to the image of Christ.

True saving faith produces repentance, love, and good works. These works do not earn our justification but evidence and flow necessarily from a heart justified and transformed by grace.

Ephesians 2:8–9 – Salvation by grace through faith

Romans 3:21–28 – Justification by faith

Romans 5:1 – Peace with God

2 Corinthians 5:17 – New creation

Philippians 1:6 – God completes His work

James 2:17–18 – Faith evidenced by works

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 – Sanctification

IX. The Church

We believe the universal Church consists of all who have been united to Christ by faith. The local church is a visible expression of this body, physically gathered in person for worship, discipleship, fellowship, and mission. The church is commanded by God not to give up meeting together regularly (at least weekly), in-person. The governing and authoritative teaching office of Elder is reserved for biblically-qualified men, affirmed by the congregation, who lead the church together as a plurality.

The Church is called to proclaim the gospel, administer the ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, exercise loving discipline, and cultivate a counter-cultural community shaped by grace.

Baptism is a sign of union with Christ in His death and resurrection and a public profession of faith which we observe in obedience to Christ’s command. The Lord’s Supper is a covenant meal in which believers remember and proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.

The Church is to be marked by sound doctrine, Christ-centered preaching, fervent prayer, mutual accountability, sacrificial love, and joyful worship.  

Matthew 16:18 – Christ builds His church

Acts 2:42–47 – Life of the early church

Titus 1:5-11 – Elders lead the church 

Ephesians 2:19–22 – Household of God

Ephesians 4:11–16 – Building up the body

1 Corinthians 11:23–26 – The Lord’s Supper

Romans 6:3–5 – Baptism and Union with Christ

Hebrews 10:24–25 – Gather together

1 Peter 2:9–12 – A holy people

1 Peter 5:1-5  – Shepherd the flock

X. Mission, Justice, and Cultural Engagement

Jesus Christ has commissioned His global Church to make disciples of all nations. Evangelism, church planting, and discipleship are central to our calling. As the global Church, we long to see people from every background reconciled to God through Christ.

Because God is redeeming both soul and body, we affirm the importance of justice, mercy, and compassion. The gospel compels us to care for the poor, the oppressed, the widow, and the fatherless. Indifference to human need contradicts the grace we have received.

We seek to be a counter-cultural community for the common good—distinct from the world in holiness and love, yet actively engaged in serving our neighbors. We desire to reflect Christ in our homes, workplaces, schools, and community, working for human flourishing with the goal of leading people to be reconciled with God while bearing witness to His coming kingdom.

Matthew 28:18–20 – The Great Commission

Acts 1:8 – Missional living

2 Corinthians 5:18–20 – Ministry of reconciliation

Micah 6:8 – Do justice, love mercy

James 1:27 – Care for the vulnerable

Matthew 5:13–16 – Salt and light

Jeremiah 29:7 – Seek the welfare of the city

Colossians 1:19–20 – Reconciliation of all things

XI. The Return of Christ and the Restoration of All Things

We believe in the personal, bodily return of Jesus Christ. At His coming, the dead will be raised. We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the just and the unjust—the unjust to judgment and eternal conscious punishment in hell, as our Lord himself taught, and the just to eternal blessedness in the presence of him who sits on the throne and of the Lamb, in the new heaven and the new earth, the home of righteousness. On that day the church will be presented faultless before God by the obedience, suffering and triumph of Christ, all sin purged and its wretched effects forever banished.

The ultimate hope of the Christian is not escape from creation but the restoration of all things under the lordship of Christ, to the praise of His glorious grace.

John 14:1–3 – Christ will come again

Acts 17:31 – Appointed day of judgment

1 Thessalonians 4:16–17 – The Lord’s return

Revelation 20:11–15 – Final judgment

Revelation 21–22 – New heavens and new earth

Romans 8:18–23 – Renewal of creation

2 Peter 3:10–13 – New heavens and new earth

Conclusion: The Spirit of This Confession

We affirm these truths with humility and gratitude. Our knowledge is real though not exhaustive, and our confidence rests not in ourselves but in the faithfulness of God (Ps. 69:13).

We are committed to holding firmly to the authority of Scripture, proclaiming the gospel clearly, living in joyful obedience, and loving one another deeply. We seek unity with all true believers in essentials, liberty in non-essentials, and charity in all things (John 13:35).

May God grant that our church would be a faithful witness to Jesus Christ in North Carolina and to the ends of the earth.