What We Believe
Albion Community Church is a Bible Church in fellowship with the IFCA (Independent Fundamental Churches of America). As such, we believe in salvation by faith in the finished work of Christ on the cross, in the eternal security of the believer, and in the future earthly kingdom of Christ. The miraculous gifts of the apostles and of those with them affirm to us the authority of the New Testament and its gospel message. Thus we do not practice tongues, healing gifts or prophecy in worship or private devotions.
- We believe the Bible is the Word of God, supernaturally and inerrantly revealed in its original documents, and is the supreme, final authority in faith and life.
- We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, co-equal in power and glory, identical in their essential nature, and worthy of precisely the same honor, confidence, obedience and love.
- We believe Jesus Christ was virgin-born, that He is both true God and true Man, that He died a sacrificial death for our sins and rose bodily from the dead. We believe in the personality and deity of the Holy Spirit.
- We believe man was created innocent, but in sinning he brought spiritual and physical death to himself and all his posterity. We believe the sole condition for receiving everlasting life is faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ, who died a substitutionary death on the cross for the sins of the whole world and rose bodily from the grave. No act of obedience, such as commitment to obey, sorrow for sin, turning from one's sin, baptism or submission to the Lordship of Christ, may be added to, or considered part of faith as a condition for receiving eternal life. This saving transaction between God and the sinner is simply the giving and receiving of a free gift.
- We believe all true believers are sons of God, and that He has made full provision for their sanctification, victory, and eternal security through faith in Jesus Christ.
- We believe all believers are responsible to walk in separation from all religious apostasy and worldly and sinful practices, witnessing by life and word to the saving power of Christ extended to all men.
- We believe that the establishment and continuance of local churches is clearly set forth and defined in the New Testament, and that fellowship in such churches is based on a common faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior.
- We believe in the personality of Satan, that he is doomed to eternal punishment in the lake of fire.
- We believe the Tribulation period will follow the Rapture or "catching away" of the Church; that this time of judgement will be consummated at the personal, visible return of Jesus Christ to earth to subdue all His enemies and to set up His earthly kingdom for one thousand years.
In subscribing to these articles of faith, we by no means set aside or undervalue any of the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, but we deem the knowledge, belief and acceptance of the truth as set forth in our doctrinal statement to be essential to sound faith and fruitful practice.