| LightSys Technology Services, Inc. Statement of Faith |
What We Believe |
Why do we have a statement of faith? It is our desire that those interested in working with us or obtaining our services know that we are indeed an evangelical Christian ministry, dedicated to orthodox beliefs. We also use our statement of faith to effectively restrict ourselves to working only for evangelical Christian missions agencies. We consider the below statement to be the minimum beliefs that a person or organization must agree to in order to be considered "mainstream evangelical Christian" according to our definition of that term. Members of the LightSys team of course probably disagree with each other on at least some nonessential elements of doctrine, and probably with many of the organizations we work for! We desire, however, to be united around essential Christian doctrines, and by doing so say, "We're with you in the furthering of the Gospel!"
We believe that the Bible, both the Old and New Testaments, is God's written revelation to man, and that it is verbally inspired by the Holy Spirit, authoritative, and without error in the original manuscripts. We believe in one and only one God, the creator of heaven and earth, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. We believe in the absolute deity and full humanity of Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, death on the cross to provide for our redemption, His bodily resurrection and ascension into heaven, present ministry of intercession for us, and His future return to earth in power and glory. We believe in the personality and deity of the Holy Spirit, that He performs the miracle of the new birth in unbelievers and indwells believers, enabling them to live Godly lives. We believe that man was created sinless in the image of God, but because of his willful sin, was alienated from God. Only through faith alone, trusting in Christ alone for salvation which was made possible by His death and resurrection, can that alienation can be removed. We believe that the Church is the body of Christ composed of all true believers, equal before Christ regardless of race, gender, or class differences. The present work of the Church is the worship of God, the perfecting of the saints, and the evangelization of the world. We believe the role of every man and woman in the Body of Christ is to serve God by utilizing the gifts and skills, entrusted to them through the power of the Holy Spirit, for the purpose of completing their part in the work of the Church.
LightSys Technology Services, Inc. - 2001 |