What We Believe

Sunday - 9:30AM Sunday School 10:30AM Worship Service | Wednesday - 7PM Bible Study

Open Door Community Church Core Beliefs

We believe the Bible to be the complete Word of God.

That the 66 books of the Old and New Testament were inspired by the Spirit of God as originally written
That the Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and conduct ·
- 2 Timothy 3:16-17

We believe in one God, Creator of all, holy, sovereign, eternal, existing in three equal Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit

We believe in the absolute and essential deity of our Lord Jesus Christ

In His eternal existence, with the Father in pre-incarnate glory
In His work of creation, in His virgin birth, sinless life, substitutionary death and bodily resurrection
In His triumphant ascension, mediatorial ministry and personal return
- John 1:1; Matthew 1:18,25; Hebrews 4:15; Hebrews 9:15-22; 1 Corinthians 15:1-8; Acts 1:9-11; Hebrews 9:27-28

We believe in the absolute and essential deity, and in the personality of the Holy Spirit

Who convinces of sin, of righteousness and of judgment
Who regenerates, indwells, seals, sanctifies, illuminates and comforts those who believe in Jesus Christ
Who baptizes believers at conversion into the Body of Christ and bestows upon them His gifts sovereignly as He wills and fills those yielded to Him and enables them to live godly lives
- John 3:16; John 5:24; Titus 3:3-7, John 14:15-26; John 16:5-16; Ephesians 1:13-14

We believe that God created all human beings in His image

That by the sin of disobedience Adam fell from perfect communion with God and now all have inherited spiritual depravity and defilement and are guilty before God and condemned to physical and spiritual death
That human life is sacred from conception to its natural end
that we must honor the physical and spiritual needs of all people and following Christ’s example, we believe that every person should be treated with love, dignity and respect
- Genesis 3, Romans 5:12, Romans 3:23, Psalm 139:13; Isaiah 49:1; Jeremiah 1:5; Matthew 22:37-39; Romans 12:20-21; Galatians 6:10

We believe that salvation is by the sovereign grace of God

That by the Father, Christ voluntarily suffered a propitiatory death
That justification is by faith alone in the all-sufficient sacrifice and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ
That those whom God has effectually called shall be divinely preserved and ultimately perfected in the image of the Lord
- Romans 10:9-10, Acts 10:12, John 3:16, Romans 6:23, Romans 5:8