What We Believe Here at Rejoice Church Iowa..

BIBLE

We Believe the Bible to be the Complete and Inerrant 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

GOD

We believe in One God, Creator of all, Holy, Sovereign, Eternal, Existing in Three Equal Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit

JESUS CHRIST

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
• The Lord Jesus Christ was the first begotten Son of God, was conceived of the Holy Spirit, was born of the Virgin Mary, was crucified and died, was buried and resurrected, ascended into heaven, and is now seated at the right hand of God the Father, and is both true God and true Man.

THE HOLY SPIRIT

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
• We believe in sanctification through the Word of God and by the Holy Spirit, and we believe in personal holiness, purity of heart and life.

SALVATION

We believe that Salvation is by the Sovereign Grace of God

• We believe in personal salvation of believers through the shed blood of Jesus Christ.
• 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

DIVINE HEALING

• We believe in divine healing through faith in Jesus Christ, and we believe that healing is included in the Redemption.

BAPTISM

• We believe in water baptism, in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit as distinct from the New Birth, in speaking with tongues as the Spirit of God gives utterance (Acts 2:4) in the gifts of the Holy Spirit and in the evidence of the fruit of the Holy Spirit.  We believe that all of these are available to believers. 

RETURNING OF JESUS CHRIST OUR SAVIOR

• We believe in the Christian’s hope: the soon-coming, personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ.

MANKIND

We believe that Adam was divinely created in the image of God

• That by the sin of disobedience he fell from that state
• That all his posterity inherited spiritual depravity and defilement
• That all men therefore are guilty before God and condemned to physical and spiritual death