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Doctrinal Baseline
What and why.
Edify Ministries seeks to build up the body of Christ by helping believers, as
individuals and groups, know God’s Word and practice it in daily life.
Productive Bible teaching and discussion require certain "ground rules" to be
formulated. If the "ground rules" are too detailed, then too few will feel free
to participate. If the "ground rules" are too loose, then the group becomes
bogged down in elementary discussions and more advanced study can not take place. Edify
Ministries attempts to minister at an intermediate level, therefore the statements below
help define its target audience.
Necessary agreements
- That there exists only one God, who is the creator and absolute sovereign of all things
both perceived and unperceived (physical and spiritual). God operates as three distinct
persons, called the Trinity, and individually known as the Father, the Son and the Holy
Spirit.
- That the sixty-six books of the Bible are the divinely inspired, completely inerrant,
and are the only authoritative message of God to man, which message is conveyed by the very
words of the text.
- That Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God, and is at the same time fully God and
fully man.
- That all mankind, not only as a race, but also as individuals, have rejected God (sinned
against Him). That salvation is individual, and requires acceptance, by grace through
faith, of God’s provision for reconciliation with Himself. This provision is through
the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
- That this salvation by grace through faith alone is the exclusive means of obtaining
eternal life.
- That God can and does actively intervene in our universe by way of what we call
miracles. Two notable examples of these are the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, and His
resurrection.
- That the goal of the Christian life is to become more and more Christ like.
- That accountability for the Christian life should be through one's local church leaders.
- That all persons will be bodily resurrected, the saved to everlasting blessedness in the
presence of God, all others to everlasting punishment, especially separation from God.
- That Christ will physically return to this earth in blessing on those who are His and in
judgment upon all others.
Teaching Position In
order to have consistency in our teaching all teachers and writers associated with
Edify Ministries subscribe completely to a more complete teaching position.
Holding to these articles is not required of users of our materials, but is the
held by all writers of our materials at the time they were written. |
