We believe that the Bible is the inspired and the only inerrant, authoritative and sufficient Word of God. (2 Tim 3:16; 2 Peter 1:21)
We believe that there is only one God, eternally existent in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. (Gen 1:1-2,26; John 1:1-3, 10:30)
We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His substitutionary 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. (Matt 1:23; Heb 4:15; John 2:11; 1 Cor 15:3-4; Acts 1:9-11)
We believe that a man is created by the direct act of God; and has a sacred, God given right to life, beginning at conception. (Gen 1:26-28, 5:1,2; Ps 139:13-16)
We believe that man is sinful and lost as a result of the fall of Adam, that regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential for his salvation and that he becomes justified by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. (Rom 3:19-24; John 3:16-19; Eph 2:8-9; Titus 3:5-6)
We believe in the continuing ministry of the Holy Spirit and that by His indwelling, the Christian is enabled to live a godly life. (Acts 1:8; Rom 8:11; Gal 5:16-22)
We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; those who are saved unto eternal life and those who are lost unto eternal damnation. (John 5:28-29; Dan 12:2)
We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Cor 12:12-13; Gal 3:26-28)
We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman. We believe that any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, bestiality, incest, fornication, adultery, transgenderism, and pornography are sinful perversions of God’s gift of sex. We believe that God disapproves of and forbids any attempt to alter one’s gender by surgery or appearance. (Genesis 2:24; 19:5; 13; 26:8-9; Leviticus 18:1-30; Romans 1:26-29; I Corinthians 5:1; 6:9; I Thessalonians 4:1-8; Hebrews 13:4)
We believe that the term “marriage” has only one, legitimate meaning, and that is marriage =sanctioned by God, which joins one man and woman in a single, covenantal union, as delineated by Scripture. Marriage ceremonies performed in any facility owned, leased, or rented by this church will only be those ceremonies sanctioned by God, joining one man with one woman as that gender was determined at birth. (Genesis 2:24; Romans 7:2; I Corinthians 7:10; Ephesians 5:22-23)
[Christ Community Church of Willoughby adheres to the following historical Christian documents as true orthodox creeds and confessions to be used by the Church of Christ against heresy: Apostle’s Creed, Nicene Creed, and The Westminster Confession of Faith.]