Fifth Avenue
Christian Church
What We Believe
* God is bigger and better that we can imagine
* The Bible is God’s perfect guidebook for living
* Jesus is God showing him to us
* The church is to serve people like Jesus served people
* The Holy Spirit lives within us
* We are saved by grace through faith at baptism for good works.
* The Lord’s Table is an open table
* Jesus is coming again* The members of this church are known as Churches of Christ or Christian
Churches.
* We call ourselves Christians or Disciples.
* We believe in God the Father.
* We believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, and our
Savior.
* We regard the divinity, of Christ as the fundamental truth of the
Christian system.
* We believe in the Holy Spirit, both as to His agency in conversion and as
a dweller in the heart of the Christian.
* We accept the Old and New Testaments as the inspired Word of God.
* We believe in the future punishment of the wicked and the future reward of
the righteous.
* We believe that Deity is a prayer hearing and prayer answering God.
* We observe the institution of the Lord's Supper on every' Lord's Day. To
this table we neither invite nor debar. We say it is the Table, for all the
Lord's children.
* We plead for the union of God's people.
* The Bible is our only Authority.
* We maintain that all ordinances should be observed as they were in the
days of the apostles.