{"id":162,"date":"2015-06-30T15:13:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T20:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/?p=162"},"modified":"2015-06-30T15:13:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T20:13:43","slug":"our-statement-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/2015\/06\/30\/our-statement-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Statement of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[We also adhere to NTM\u2019s statement of faith, which can be found at usa.ntm.org\/about\/what-we-believe]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We believe:<\/p>\n<p>1- in the triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit<\/p>\n<p>2- that God is good, all-knowing, all-powerful, gracious, just, loving, and sovereign<\/p>\n<p>3- that God&#8217;s inerrant Word is our source of truth<\/p>\n<p>4- that people are inherently sinful and utterly without hope apart from Christ.\u00a0 All have sinned and deserve Hell.<\/p>\n<p>5- that Jesus Christ, fully God and fully man, lived a perfect life, died in our place, and rose from the dead.<\/p>\n<p>6-\u00a0 that people can admit their need for God and trust in Christ&#8217;s sacrifice for them having fully paid for their sins.<\/p>\n<p>7- that people desiring to be saved must put their faith in Christ alone, knowing there is nothing they can do to earn or add to salvation.\u00a0 Those who are saved are saved entirely because of God&#8217;s grace in calling them.<\/p>\n<p>8- that a truly saved person can never become lost again, and will spend eternity with God in heaven.<\/p>\n<p>9- that the Holy Spirit indwells every believer and works to help make them more like Christ.<\/p>\n<p>10- that Christ is coming back, and will judge the living and the dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[We also adhere to NTM\u2019s statement of faith, which can be found at usa.ntm.org\/about\/what-we-believe] &nbsp; We believe: 1- in the triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit 2- that God is good, all-knowing, all-powerful, gracious, just, loving, and sovereign 3- that God&#8217;s inerrant Word is our source of truth 4- that people are inherently sinful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}