Beliefs
At Glass City Church, we take theology and doctrine seriously. We are Christian, Complementarian, Missional, and Reformed.
Scripture
We believe that the 66 books of the Old and New Testament of the Holy Bible are inspired, inerrant sufficient, and infallible. They are our final authority. (2 Tim. 3:16-17; 2 Pet. 1:20-21; Matt 5:18; John 16:12-13).
The Trinity
We believe that the Godhead exists eternally in three persons- Father, Son, and Spirit. (Deut. 6:4; 2 Cor. 13:14).
Jesus
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man without ceasing to be God, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin, Mary, in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful man (John 1:1-2, 14; Luke 1:35).
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through His death on the cross as a representative, vicarious sacrifice, and that our justification is made sure by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead (Rom. 3:24; 1 Pet. 2:24; Eph. 1:7; 1 Pet. 1:3-5).
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended into heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God as our High Priest (Acts 1:9-10; Heb. 7:25; 9:24; Rom. 8:34; 1 John 2:1-2).
The Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit is a person who convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, and that He is the supernatural agent in regeneration, baptizing all believers into the body of Christ, indwelling and sealing them unto the day of redemption (John 16:8-11; 2 Cor. 3:6; 1 Cor. 12:12-14; Rom. 8:9; Eph. 5:18).
Salvation
As followers of Christ, we believe that we are so spiritually corrupt and prideful and rebellious that we would never have come to faith in Jesus without God’s merciful, sovereign victory over the last vestiges of our rebellion. (1 Corinthians 2:14; Ephesians 3:1–4; Romans 8:7).
We believe that God chose those who follow Him to be his children before the foundation of the world, on the basis of nothing in them, foreknown or otherwise. (Ephesians 1:4–6; Acts 13:48; Romans 8:29–30; 11:5–7)
We believe Christ died as a substitute for sinners to provide a bona fide offer of salvation to all people, and that he had an invincible design in his death to obtain his chosen bride, namely, the assembly of all believers, whose names were eternally written in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain. (John 3:16; John 10:15; Ephesians 5:25; Revelation 13:8)
When we were dead in our trespasses, and blind to the beauty of Christ, God made us alive, opened the eyes of our hearts, granted us to believe, and united us to Jesus, with all the benefits of forgiveness and justification and eternal life. (Ephesians 2:4–5; 2 Corinthians 4:6; Philippians 2:29; Ephesians 2:8–9; Acts 16:14; Ephesians 1:7; Philippians 3:9)
As followers of Christ, we are eternally secure not mainly because of anything we did in the past, but decisively because God is faithful to complete the work he began—to sustain our faith, and to keep us from apostasy, and to hold us back from sin that leads to death. (1 Corinthians 1:8–9; 1 Thessalonians 5:23–24; Philippians 1:6; 1 Peter 1:5; Jude 1:25; John 10:28–29; 1 John 5:16)
[Salvation section adapted from DesiringGod.org]