
甘 城 华 人 福 音 堂
Gainesville Gospel Chinese Church
我们传扬祂 Whom We Preach
《歌罗西书》1:28

甘城华人福音堂隶属于美南浸信会 (Southern Baptist Convention),遵循其信仰章程(The Baptist Faith and Message, 2000):
1. God the Father
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Whose existence is to be asserted and proved by the Word of God itself, the beauty and order of the world, the meaning and purpose of human life (Gen.1: 1; Rom.1: 19-20; Ps. 19:1-2; Rom. 2:12-16)
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Who is eternal and infinite (Exo.3: 14; Job 11:7)
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Who is holy and just (Lev.11: 45; Rom. 7:12)
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Who is love and good (Ps. 25:8; 119:68)
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Who is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent (Ps.139: 7-12; Acts 15:18; Rev. 19:6)
2. Jesus Christ
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Who is the Second Person of Godhead and coexists from everlasting to everlasting (Jn.1: 1; Heb.1:8)
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Who is the only Begotten Son of God (Mt. 26:53-65; Jn.1:14)
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Who was incarnated by the birth of virgin Mary and bears full humanity yet without sin (Mt.1: 18-25; Heb.4: 15)
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Who died on the Cross as the substituting atonement for sin, Who was raised from death as the triumph over the power of sin (Isa. 53:6; Jn.1: 29; Lk. 24:36-43)
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Who is now sitting at the throne and intercedes for His people, and who will come back again to receive us into glory (Rom. 8:34; 1 Thess.4: 14-16)
3. Holy Spirit
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Who is the Third Person of Godhead and coexists from everlasting to everlasting (Gen.1: 2; Mk.3: 28-30)
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Who convicts sinners, gives and seals eternal life to them (Jn.16: 8-11; Eph.1: 13-14)
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Who is the Comforter of the saints and the Teacher of the truth (Jn.14: 15-17)
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Who equips and fills the believers with various spiritual gifts for the good work of Jesus Christ (Eph.5: 18; Gal.2: 20)
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Who is to be grieved by the disobedience of the believers and is the Sanctifier of the believers (Eph.4: 30; Jn.16: 13)
4. Holy Scripture
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Which is consist of 66 books (39 books in the Old Testament and 27 books in the New Testament) (Lk.24: 44; 2 Tim.3: 16)
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Which is inspired by God, therefore it is complete, infallible and inerrant (2 Tim.3: 16; Mt.5: 18)
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Which is to be owned, studied and meditated by every believers (Ps.1: 2-3; Jn.6: 45)
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Which is authoritative and must be applied and obeyed (Ps.119: 67, 89)
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Which is the Living Word and is sufficient for all life issues and problems (Rom.15: 4; 1 Corinthians 10:13; 2 Timothy
3:16)
5. Man’s Sin and Salvation
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Who was born with sin, lived in sin and died of sin prior to his salvation of God (Gen. 3:24; Ps.14; Eph.2: 3)
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Who was doomed to eternal punishment of Hell and separation from God (Heb.9: 27; Mt. 5:27-30)
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Who has no power in himself to please God, nor has the power to change himself (Eph.2: 1)
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Who is to be saved only by trusting in Jesus Christ as his Substitute of sin and the Mediator before God (Jn.3: 16)
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Who is to be justified by faith in Jesus Christ and sanctified by the Word of God and the Spirit of God (Jn.17: 17; Rom.15: 16)
6. Holy Church
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Who is purchased and cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ and is consist of believers alone (1 Peter 2:9-10)
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Who is invisible, universal, heavenly, catholic as well as visible, physical, earthly and local (Eph.4: 1-16; Rev.2: 1,8,12,18; 3:1,7,14)
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Who exists for the glory of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ to the world (Mt.28: 18-20)
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Who builds up the body of Christ by equipping and edifying of the believers, as well as purifying and disciplining the backslidings (1 Corinthians 5: 1-13)
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Who separates herself from the corruption of the world, labours and waits in hope the glorious day of redemption (1 John 2:15-17; 1 Cor.15: 50-58)
7. The Second Coming of Jesus Christ and the Eternity beyond
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That this world cannot and will not last forever, the end of the world is both prophesied and promised (Mt. 24-25)
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That the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is imminent and physical (Lk.21: 31; 1 Thess.5: 2-6)
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That Christ will reign on the earth for the Millennium (Rev.19: 15-16)
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That the existence and horror of hell is real and literal, final destiny of the unbelievers is doomed and fixed forever (Rev.20: 10-15)
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That the everlasting presence of God is promised to and enjoyed by all believers (Rev.21: 22-22:5)