What We Believe
The Bible
We believe in the verbal plenary inspiration and inerrancy of the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments.
2 Peter 1:20-21, 2 Timothy 3:15-17, 1 Peter 1:23-25, Hebrews 4:12
God The Father, God The Son, God The Holy Spirit
The one true God has revealed Himself as the eternally self-existent, self-revealed “I AM” and has been further revealed as a trinity in unity, manifested in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Deuteronomy 6:4, Mark 12:29, Isaiah 43:10, Matthew 28:19
In the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, His pre-existence, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death on the cross, His bodily resurrection, His ascension and glorification to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
Luke 1:26-35, John 1:1, 14, 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, 2 Corinthians 5:21,
Acts 10:38 , Luke 23-24, Acts 1:6-11, Revelation 19:11-21,
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
The Church
The Church is built upon the foundation of Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 3:11; Ephesians 2:20), the Church is the Body of our Lord (Romans 12:5; 1 Corinthians 12:27), and Christ is the head of His Church (Ephesians 1:22; Colossians 1:18). Those making up the Church are all true believers, born again of the Spirit (John 3:6) and of the Word (1 Peter 1:23), and who are living an overcoming Christian life (Ephesians 5:27, Revelation 21:27).
To the Church, which is empowered by the Holy Spirit, through its members, is delegated the various gifts and offices of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:7-11, 27, 28). These are necessary for the successful evangelization of the world and for the perfecting of the Body of Christ (Acts 1:8; 1 Corinthians 12:7, Ephesians 4:11,12).
The Bride of Christ (2 Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 5:26-27; Revelation 21:9b, 27) is the universal, invisible sanctified church. Prior to the Great Tribulation, it is for this Bride (the Church) for whom Jesus Christ returns to catch away and take to heaven (John 14:23; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18).
Salvation
Man was created good and upright, for God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” However, man, by voluntary transgression, fell and his only hope of redemption is in Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Genesis 1:26-31; 3:17 , Romans 5:12-21, John 3:8
That regeneration (the New Birth) by the Holy Spirit for the salvation of lost and sinful mankind, through personal faith in the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, is absolutely essential.
Titus 3:4-5, Ephesians 2:8
In the life of holiness, without which no man can see the Lord, through sanctification as a definite, yet progressive, work of grace.
Hebrews 12:14, 1 Thessalonians 5:23, 1 Corinthians 6:11
Baptism and Communion
Water baptism by immersion for believers only, which is a direct commandment of our Lord, in The Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 28:19, Romans 5:3-5, Colossians 2:12, Acts 2:38
TruthPointe affirms the biblical teachings of infant and/or small child dedication to the Lord by the local assembly (1 Samuel 1:1-28; Mark 10:13-16; Luke 18:15,16). This in no way infers that TruthPointe believes in infant baptism.
The ordinance of the Lord’s supper shall be observed according to the Scriptures.
Luke 22:19-20, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
The Holy Sprit and Gifts
In the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, received subsequent to the new birth, with speaking in other tongues, as the Spirit gives the utterance, as the initial physical sign and evidence.
Acts 1:8, Acts 2:1-4, John 14:16-17, Acts 2:38-39
The Rapture
In the pre-millennial appearing in the air of the Lord Jesus Christ to resurrect the righteous dead and to catch away the living saints to meet Him in the air (the Rapture), and His Second Coming (advent), to reign on the earth a thousand years (millennium).
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, Revelation 20:1-7
In the bodily 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.
Matthew 25:46, Mark 9:43-48, Revelation 20:11-15, Revelation 21
In a literal Heaven and a literal Hell.
Revelation 21:1-4, Revelation 20:11-15