WHAT WE BELIEVE - STATEMENT OF FAITH

In unity with all Christian churches, AHBC has prepared a statement of generally held convictions.
Our statement of faith serves as a guide to understanding who we are Biblically.

BIBLE
We believe the Bible is the inspired, inerrant, infallible and authoritative written Word of God.

See: Exodus 24:4; Deuteronomy 4:1-2; 17:19; Joshua 8:34; Psalm 19:7-10; 119:11,89,105,140; Isaiah 34:16; 40:8; Jeremiah 15:16; 36:1-32; Matthew 5:17-18; 22:29; Luke 21:33; 24:44-46; John 5:39; 16:13-15; 17:17; Acts 2:16; 17:11; Romans 15:4; 16:25-26; 2 Timothy 3:15-17; Hebrews 1:1-2; 4:12; 1 Peter 1:25; 2 Peter 1:19-21

TRINITY
We believe there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Holy Spirit.

See: Genesis 1:1; 26; 3:22; 11:7; Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 6:8; 48:16, 61:1; Matthew 3:16-17; 28:19; 2 Corinthians 3:6; 13:14; John 16:8–11; 1 Corinthians 12:12–14; Romans 8:9; Ephesians 5:18

JESUS
We believe in the deity and humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, in His role as our High Priest and Advocate, and in His bodily future return to this earth in power and glory.

See: Genesis 18:1; Psalm 2:7; 110:1; Isaiah 7:14; 53; Matthew 1:18-23; 3:17; 8:29; 11:27; 14:33; 16:16,27; 17:5; 27; 28:1-6,19; Mark 1:1; 3:11; Luke 1:35; 4:41; 22:70; 24:46; John 1:1-18,29; 10:30,38; 11:25-27; 12:44-50; 14:7-11; 16:15-16,28; 17:1-5, 21-22; 20:1-20,28; Acts 1:9; 2:22-24; 7:55-56; 9:4-5,20; Romans 1:3-4; 3:23-26; 5:6-21; 8:1-3,34; 10:4; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 2:2; 8:6; 15:1-8,24-28; 2 Corinthians 5:19-21; 8:9; Galatians 4:4-5; Ephesians 1:20; 3:11; 4:7-10; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 1:13-22; 2:9; 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18; 1 Timothy 2:5-6; 3:16; Titus 2:13-14; Hebrews 1:1-3; 4:14-15; 7:14-28; 9:12-15,24-28; 12:2; 13:8; 1 Peter 2:21-25; 3:22; 1 John 1:7-9; 3:2; 4:14-15; 5:9; 2 John 7-9; Revelation 1:13-16; 5:9-14; 12:10-11; 13:8; 19:16

HOLY SPIRIT
We believe the Holy Spirit restrains evil, glorifies Jesus, convicts man of sin, regenerates the spiritually dead, seals the believer for the day of redemption, indwells the believer as His temple, illuminates the believer to appraise Scripture, bestows spiritual gifts on the believer for the common good, and empowers the believer for godly living and service.

See: Genesis 1:2; Judges 14:6; Job 26:13; Psalm 51:11; 139:7; Isaiah 61:1-3; Joel 2:28-32; Matthew 1:18; 3:16; 4:1; 12:28-32; 28:19; Mark 1:10,12; Luke 1:35; 4:1,18-19; 11:13; 12:12; 24:49; John 4:24; 14:16-17,26; 15:26; 16:7-14; Acts 1:8; 2:1-4,38; 4:31; 5:3; 6:3; 7:55; 8:17,39; 10:44; 13:2; 15:28; 16:6; 19:1-6; Romans 8:9-11,14-16,26-27; 1 Corinthians 2:10-14; 3:16; 12:3-11,13; Galatians 4:6; Ephesians 1:13-14; 4:30; 5:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:19; 1 Timothy 3:16; 4:1; 2 Timothy 1:14; 3:16; Hebrews 9:8,14; 2 Peter 1:21; 1 John 4:13; 5:6-7; Revelation 1:10; 22:17

MAN
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, man was created male and female as part of God’s unchangeable design, that through Adam’s sin the race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God, and that man is totally depraved (thoroughly corrupt and sinful) and of himself utterly unable to remedy his lost condition.

See: Genesis 1:26-27; 8:21; Jeremiah 17:9; Romans 3:10-18; 21-23, 5:12; Ephesians 2:1-3; 8-13; Colossians 2:13; Titus 1:15-16

SALVATION
We believe that all who place their faith in Jesus for the forgiveness of sins are justified by God as a gift by His grace, that the basis for salvation is the blood Jesus shed on the cross through His sacrificial and substitutionary death, that saving faith must be in Jesus alone, that a believer is progressively sanctified, and that salvation results in the spiritual life of the believer who is held securely forever by God.

See: Matthew 1:21; 4:17; 16:21-26; 27:22-28:6; Luke 1:68-69; 2:28-32; John 1:11-14,29; 3:3-21,36; 5:24; 6:44; 10:9,28-29; 15:1-16; 17:17; Acts 2:21; 4:12; Romans 1:16-18; 2:4; 3:23-25; 4:3; 5:8-10; 6:1-23; 8:1-18,29-39; 10:9-10,13; 13:11-14; 1 Corinthians 1:18, 30; 6:19-20; 15:10; 2 Corinthians 5:17-20; Galatians 2:20; 3:13; 5:22-25; 6:15; Ephesians 1:7; 2:8-22; 4:11-16; Philippians 2:12-13; Colossians 1:9-22; 3:1; 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24; 2 Timothy 1:12; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 2:1-3; 5:8-9; 9:24-28; 11:1-12:8,14; James 2:14-26; 1 Peter 1:2-23; 1 John 1:6-2:11; Revelation 3:20; 21:1-22:5

THE CHURCH
We believe that The Church began at Pentecost and is comprised of all born-again persons in this age, that Jesus is the head of The Church, that The Church is Jesus’ Body & Bride, and that local expressions of The Church assemble for the purpose of observing the ordinances and for worship, Bible study, fellowship, encouragement, unity, and carrying out the Great Commission.

See: Matthew 16:15-19; 18:15-20; Acts 2:41-42,47; 5:11-14; 6:3-6; 13:1-3; 14:23,27; 15:1-30; 16:5; 20:28; Romans 1:7; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 3:16; 5:4-5; 7:17; 9:13-14; 12; Ephesians 1:22-23; 2:19-22; 3:8-11,21; 5:22-32; Philippians 1:1; Colossians 1:18; 1 Timothy 2:9-14; 3:1-15; 4:14; Hebrews 11:39-40; 1 Peter 5:1-4; Revelation 2-3; 21:2-3

FUTURE
We believe in the bodily return of Jesus and in the resurrection of the saved and the lost, the saved to everlasting life and the lost to everlasting damnation, and that God will execute final judgment over Satan, sin, and death.

See: Isaiah 2:4; 11:9; Matthew 16:27; 18:8-9; 19:28; 24:27,30,36,44; 25:31-46; 26:64; Mark 8:38; 9:43-48; Luke 12:40,48; 16:19-26; 17:22-37; 21:27-28; John 14:1-3; Acts 1:11; 17:31; Romans 14:10; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 15:24-28,35-58; 2 Corinthians 5:10; Philippians 3:20-21; Colossians 1:5; 3:4; 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18; 5:1; 2 Thessalonians 1:7; 2; 1 Timothy 6:14; 2 Timothy 4:1,8; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 9:27-28; James 5:8; 2 Peter 3:7; 1 John 2:28; 3:2; Jude 14;Revelation 1:18; 3:11; 20:1-22:13

Our statement of faith serves as a guide to understanding who we are Biblically.
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