Articles of Faith
Lifeline Ministries of Virginia
Articles of Faith
We believe in the authority and sufficiency of the Holy Bible, consisting of the sixty-six books of the Old
and New Testaments, as originally written; that it was verbally and plenarily inspired and is the product
of Spirit-controlled men, and therefore is infallible and inerrant in all matters of which it speaks.
We believe there is one and only one living and true God in three parts; God the Father, God the Son
and God the Holy Spirit.
We believe that the Holy Spirit is a divine person, equal with God the Father and God the Son and of the
same nature; that He convicts of sin, of righteousness and of judgment; that He bears witness to the
truth of the gospel in preaching and testimony.
We believe in the reality and personality of Satan, the Devil; and that he was created by God as an
angel but through pride and rebellion became the enemy of his Creator; and is destined to the
judgment of an eternal justice in the lake of fire.
We believe that God created the heaven and the earth in six literal twenty four hour days and rested on
the seventh.
We believe that man was created in innocence (in the image and likeness of God) under the law of his
Maker, but by voluntary transgression Adam fell from his sinless and happy state, and all men sinned
in him and are sinners by nature and by conduct, and therefore are under just condemnation without
defense or excuse.
We believe that Jesus was begotten of the Holy Spirit in a miraculous manner, born of Mary, a virgin, as
no other man was ever born or can be born of-woman, and that He is both the Son of God and God, the
Son.
We believe that Christ died for the sins of all mankind and that salvation is by grace through faith alone,
based on the finished work of Christ on the cross.
We believe in the bodily resurrection of Christ and in His ascension into Heaven, where He now sits at
the right hand of the Father as our High Priest interceding for us.
We believe that justification is that judicial act of God whereby He declares the believer righteous upon
the basis of the imputed righteousness of Christ; that it is bestowed, not in consideration of any work of
righteousness which we have done, but solely through faith in the Redeemer's shed blood.
We believe that sanctification is the divine setting apart of the believer unto God accomplished in a
threefold manner; first, an eternal act of God, based upon redemption in Christ, establishing the
believer in a position of holiness at the moment he trusts the Savior; second, a continuing process in
the saint as the Holy Spirit applies the Word of God to the life; third, the final accomplishment of this
process at the Lord's return.
We believe that a local church is an organized congregation of immersed believers, and is the
institution by which the great commission is carried out. That all ministries should be sent from the
local church and held accountable to their sending church and pastor.
We believe that Christian baptism is the single immersion of a believer in water to show forth in a
solemn and beautiful emblem our identification with the crucified, buried and risen Savior.
We believe in obedience to the Biblical commands to separate ourselves unto God from worldliness
and ecclesiastical apostasy.
We believe in the pre-millennial return of Christ, an event which can occur at any moment, and that at
that moment the dead in Christ shall be raised in glorified bodies, and the living in Christ shall be
given glorified bodies without tasting death, and all shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the air before
the seven years of the Tribulation.
We believe that the Tribulation, which follows the Rapture of the Church, will be culminated by the
revelation of Christ in power and great glory to sit upon the throne of David and to establish the
millennial kingdom.
We believe that all forms of compromise with liberalism, ecumenicalism, new evangelicalism, or the
charismatic movement should be avoided by those who wish to live in obedience to God.
