Core Beliefs
The following are the core beliefs of Fowler Community Church based on the foundational truths taught in the bible. All of our teaching and ministry is rooted in and flows out of these biblical doctrines.
God
There is one eternally existing God who has three distinct persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. He is the creator of all that exists, both visible and invisible, and is therefore worthy of all glory and praise. God is perfect in love, power, holiness, goodness, knowledge, wisdom, justice, and mercy. He is unchangeable and therefore is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Revelation
God has revealed himself to us through his son, Jesus Christ, who is the visible image of the invisible God, the holy scriptures, and through all of creation itself.
Mankind
Humans, both male and female, were created in God's image for His glory. The first humans, Adam and Eve, were created without sin and appointed as caretakers of the rest of God's creations.
The Fall
When Adam and Eve chose not to obey God, they ceased to be what they were made to be and became distorted images of God. This caused them to fall out of fellowship with God, and fractured all of creation ever since that time.
Salvation
Jesus Christ came to reconcile us with God. He lived a life without sin and willingly died on the cross to pay the penalty for our transgressions. God raised him from the dead and now, by grace, offers as a free gift eternal life to all who follow Christ, by faith, as their Lord and Savior. That is why salvation can be found in Christ alone.
The Church
The Church is meant to be the visible body of Christ, sent into the world to glorify God and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Ressurection
Jesus Christ is returning one day to judge both the living and the dead and to usher in the fullness of God's kingdom on earth.
statment of faith
Believing that certain fundamental doctrines are essential to Christian unity and realizing that other points may be open to private belief, we make this statement of faith.
- We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, and authoritative Word of God.
- We believe that there is one God eternally existent manifested in three persons: Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.
- We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death through his shed blood, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal return in power and glory.
- We believe that salvation is by grace through faith alone.
- We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling a Christian is able to live a Godly life.
- We believe that the gifts of the Holy Spirit are distributed as He chooses, with no single gift intended for every believer.
- We believe in the physical resurrection of both the saved and the lost: the saved to a resurrection of eternal life with Jesus Christ, and the lost to a resurrection of damnation.
- We believe in the spiritual unity of all who have received Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.
- We believe in the two ordinances of Communion and Baptism of believers.
