Jesus Christ is God the Son, the second person of the Trinity. On earth, Jesus was 100% God

and 100% man. He is the only man ever to have lived a sinless life. He was born of a virgin,

lived a sinless life, performed miracles, died on the cross for mankind and thus, atoned for our

sins through the shedding of His blood. He rose from the dead on the third day according to

the Scriptures, ascended to the right hand of the Father, and will return again in power and

glory.

John 1:1,14, 20:28; I Timothy 3:16; Isaiah 9:6; Philippians 2:5-6; I Timothy 2:5

Christians are people who have invited the Lord Jesus Christ to come and live inside them by

His Holy Spirit. They relinquish the authority of their lives over to him thus making Jesus the

Lord of their life as well as Savior. They put their trust in what Jesus accomplished for them

when He died, was buried, and rose again from the dead.

John 1:12; John 14:17, 23; John 15:4; Romans 8:11; Revelation 3:20

Sanctification is the ongoing process of yielding to God’s Word and His Spirit in order to

complete the development of Christ’s character in us. It is through the present ministry of the

Holy Spirit and the Word of God that the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.

I Thessalonians 4:3, 5:23; II Corinthians 3:18, 6:14-18, II Thessalonians 2:1-3, Romans 8:29,

12:1-2, Hebrews 2:11

Clear Point practices Believer’s Baptism, which means that we baptize those who have made a

personal decision to follow Christ and trust Him alone for salvation with full immersion to

reinforce the symbolism of burial and resurrection, and to reflect the practice as found in the

New Testament. (We sometimes refer to baptism as “Going Liquid” with your faith.) At Clear

Point, baptisms are celebrations! This is the attitude toward someone's desire to announce that

"I have chosen to follow Christ!"

John 4:2; Matthew 28:19; Acts 2:41

We are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ; His death, burial, and resurrection.

Salvation is a gift from God, not a result of our good works or of any human efforts.

Ephesians 2:8-9; Galatians 2:16, 3:8; Titus 3:5; Romans 10:9-10; Acts 16:31; Hebrews 9:22

The Blood that Jesus Christ shed on the Cross of Calvary was sinless and is 100% sufficient to

cleanse mankind of all sin. Jesus allowed Himself to be punished for both our sinfulness and

our sins, enabling all those who believe to be free from the penalty of sin, which is death.

I John 1:7; Revelation 1:5, 5:9; Colossians 1:20; Romans 3:10-12, 23, 5:9; John 1:29

The Holy Bible, and only the Bible, is the authoritative Word of God. It alone is the final

authority in determining all doctrinal truths. In its original writing, it is inspired, infallible and

inerrant.

II Timothy 3:16; II Peter 1:20-21; Proverbs 30:5; Romans 16:25-26

There is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. These three

are coequal and co-eternal.

I John 5:7; Genesis 1:26; Matthew 3:16-17, 28:19; Luke 1:35; Isaiah 9:6; Hebrews 3:7-11

Jesus Christ was conceived by God the Father, through the Holy Spirit (the third person of the

Trinity) in the virgin Mary’s womb; therefore, He is the Son of God.

Matthew 1:18, 25; Luke 1:35; Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:18, 23-25; Luke 1:27-35

Man was created good and upright, but by choosing to sin he fell; his only hope of

redemption is in Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Gen. 1:26-31, 3:1-7; Romans 5:12-21es here

Repentance is the commitment to turn away from sin in every area of our lives and to follow

Christ, which allows us to receive His redemption and to be regenerated by the Holy Spirit.

Thus, through repentance we receive forgiveness of sins and appropriate salvation.

Acts 2:21, 3:19; I John 1:9

For anyone to know God, letting go of the old sinful nature and becoming more like Christ, by

the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.

John 6:44, 65

Healing of the sick is illustrated in the life and ministry of Jesus, and included in the commission

of Jesus to His disciples. It is given as a sign, which is to follow believers. It is also a part of Jesus’

work on the Cross and one of the gifts of the Spirit.

Psalm 103:2-3; Isaiah 53:5; Matthew 8:16-17; Mark 16:17-18; Acts 8:6-7; James 5:14-16;

I Corinthians 12:9, 28; Romans 11:29

Sexuality and the divinely prescribed boundaries for the expression thereof is covered clearly in

the Holy Scriptures, which limits sexual expression to the marital relationship of one man with

one woman. Homosexual acts, adultery, bestiality, and all forms of fornication are categorically

condemned in the Holy Scriptures.

1 Cor. 6:18; 1 Thess. 4:3; Rom. 1:26-27; Prov. 5:3-5, 8-13; 7:21-27; Gal. 5:19; Exodus 20:14;

Deut. 5:18; Matt. 5:27; 19:18; Luke 18:20; Rom. 13:9; James 2:11; Lev. 20:10-21;1 Cor. 10:8; 6:18; Jude 7:5

The church is the Body of Christ, the habitation of God through the Spirit, with divine

appointments for the fulfillment of Jesus’ great commission. Every person who is born of the

Spirit is an integral part of the church as a member of the body of believers. There is a spiritual

unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 1:22, 2:19-22; Hebrews 12:23; John 17:11, 20-23

Jesus Christ was physically resurrected from the dead in a glorified body three days after His

death on the cross. In addition, both the saved and the lost will be resurrected; they that are

saved to the resurrection of life and they that are lost to the resurrection of eternal damnation.

Luke 24:16, 36, 39; John 2:19-21, 20:26-28, 21:4; Acts 24:15; I Corinthians 15:42, 44;

Philippians 1:21-23, 3:21

Jesus Christ will physically and visibly return to earth for the second time to establish His

Kingdom. This will occur at a date undisclosed by the Scriptures.

Matthew 24:30, 26:63-64; Acts 1:9-11; I Thessalonians 4:15-17

Given at Pentecost, it is the promise of the Father, sent by Jesus after His Ascension, to empower

the Church to preach the Gospel throughout the whole earth.

Joel 2:28-29; Matthew 3:11; Mark 16:17; Acts 1:5,2:1-4, 17, 38-39, 8:14-17, 10:38, 44-47, 11:15-17, 19:1-6

Heaven is the eternal dwelling place for all believers in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Matthew 5:3, 12, 20, 6:20, 19:21, 25:34; John 17:24; II Corinthians 5:1; Hebrews 11:16; I Peter 1:4

After living one life on earth, the unbelievers will be judged by God and sent to Hell where

they will be eternally tormented with the devil and the fallen angels.

Matthew 25:41; Mark 9:43-48; Hebrews 9:27; Revelation 14:9-11, 20:12-15, 21:8

It is the Father’s will for believers to become whole, healthy and successful in all areas of life.

But because of the fall, that brought sin into the world, many may not receive the full benefits

of God’s will while on Earth. That fact, though, should never prevent all believers from seeking

the full benefits of Christ’s provision in order to better serve others.

• Spiritual (John 3:3-11; II Corinthians 5:17-21; Romans 10:9-10)

• Mental and Emotional (II Timothy 1:7, 2:11; Philippians 4:7-8; Romans 12:2; Isaiah 26:3)

• Physical (Isaiah 53:4,5; Matthew 8:17; I Peter 2:24)

• Financial (Joshua 1:8; Malachi 3:10-11; Luke 6:38; II Corinthians 9:6-10; Deuteronomy

28:1-14; Psalm 34:10, 84:11; Philippians 4:19)

The Lord’s Supper: A unique time of communion in the presence of God when the elements of

bread and grape juice (representing the Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ) are taken in

remembrance of Jesus’ sacrifice on the Cross.

Matthew 26:26-29; I Corinthians 10:16, 11:23-25

Water Baptism: Following faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the new convert is commanded by the

Word of God to be baptized in water in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy

Spirit.

Matthew 28:19; Acts 2:38; Mark 16:16; Acts 8:12, 36-38; 10:47-48

The Holy Spirit is manifested through a variety of spiritual gifts to build and sanctify the church,

demonstrate the validity of the resurrection, and confirm the power of the Gospel. The Bible lists

of these gifts are not necessarily exhaustive, and the gifts may occur in various combinations. All

believers are commanded to earnestly desire the manifestation of the gifts in their lives. These

gifts always operate in harmony with the Scriptures and should never be used in violation of

biblical parameters.

Hebrews 2:4; Romans 1:11,12 :4-8; Ephesians 4:16; II Timothy 1:5-16, 4:14; I Corinthians 12:1-31,

14:1-40; I Peter 4:10

The testimony of the God-breathed Holy Scriptures is that the marriage covenant shall be

reserved only for one man with one woman. It was our Creator, the Lord God, who decided that

the man should not be alone, who specifically fashioned the woman as the suitable helper for

the man, who literally made the woman from a part of the man, and in the woman made the

man complete, who designed sexual union to be with a husband cleaving to his wife as one

flesh, who bestowed his divine blessing upon the unity of a man and a woman, who gave the

man and the woman the ability to fulfill his charge to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the

earth, and who ordained the pattern for human existence that a man and a woman would pair

up and cleave to each other in one flesh. No other relationship can ever be the holy unity

between one man and one woman established by our Creator, which the Apostle Paul frequently

compared to the holy unity of Christ and the church, and man has no authority to alter the divine

order of the unity between one man and one woman.

Genesis 2:18-24; 1:27-28; Matthew 19:4-6; Ephesians 5: 23, 25, 31-32