Statement of Faith
The team connected to TimTyler.faith believes the same as the vast majority of evangelical churches. Below you will find our formal statement of faith (the same statement adopted by the National Association of Evangelicals.)
What you especially need to know, is that we use the Bible a lot because we believe God has preserved it through all this time so He can guide us. We believe the Bible is a very special source of wisdom. There’s nothing spooky about that, but it is spiritual as well as intellectual.
Also, we believe that we can pray and be heard by God. We don’t think that picking the right words makes a difference. Communicating with God doesn’t depend on the right words; it takes the right heart.
We believe love is the most important thing. God wants us to love Him, to love our neighbor, and to love other believers. We’re saved only by grace through faith, but faith isn’t as great as Love (“now abide faith, hope, and love, but the greatest of these is love.”) In Scripture, God even reserved a word for this kind of unconditional love from God: Agape. We believe we are to live our lives expressing Agape, just as Jesus did.
Here’s the formal Statement of Faith:
We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.
We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful people, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.
We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Just to be clear, we are saved from the coming final judgment when we believe in Jesus. Simple, wholehearted belief in Jesus leads us to a completely new life.
Consider this passage from the Gospel of John:
John 3 (NKJV)
(16) For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Look at Titus 3 (NLT) as well:
3) Once we, too, were foolish and disobedient. We were misled and became slaves to many lusts and pleasures. Our lives were full of evil and envy, and we hated each other.
4) But—”When God our Savior revealed His kindness and love,
5) He saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth and new life through the Holy Spirit.
6) He generously poured out the Spirit upon us through Jesus Christ our Savior.
7) Because of His grace He declared us righteous and gave us confidence that we will inherit eternal life.”