• Outreach

Our 4 Tenets form Our Core

Peace, Strength, and Unity, are all great needs of these challenging times for God's people to sustain spiritual stamina. AUCI is built for Outreach to share the Gospel of Jesus and called to be bold in proclaiming Jesus Christ.

These are relevant, revolutionary, and reassuring. Embracing, celebrating, and accepting them as part of our spiritual family fabric and ethic is so critical, attained only through prayer and devotion rooted in glad-hearted faith and obedience. Each in itself has an insurmountable value within the family and in the church life.

These define and refine us over time as church, congregation, and community as we pursue a future filled with God’s glory.

• Unity

• Strength

• Peace

1. One God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

We believe in God the Father, creator of the universe.

We believe in God the Son, Jesus Christ, the eternal Word, the one and only Savior; Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, both fully human and fully divine; Who lived a sinless life; Who suffered and was crucified as an atonement for sin; Who rose again bodily from the dead on the third day; Who ascended into Heaven; and Who will return in victory to rule forever.

We believe in the Holy Spirit: who convicts of sin; Who indwells every Christian; Who helps us in our weakness and intercedes for us in prayer; and Who empowers us to a victorious Christian life.

2. Good News—the cross of Jesus changes everything.

That man, created by God, willfully sinned against God and is consequently lost and without hope apart from Jesus Christ.

That salvation—the forgiveness of sins—is only by grace through the blood of Jesus Christ.

That one receives salvation by putting faith in Christ, repenting of sin, and confessing Christ, and that the Bible commands every believer in Christ to be baptized.

That those who have received salvation through faith in Jesus Christ are sent into the world to proclaim the Gospel and to love and serve the world just as Jesus Himself did.

3. The Bible—God’s perfect and pure Word.

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We believe

• The life of the Word is no less than the life of God Himself.

• The Bible is a book of truth, trustworthy, perfectly complete, and the final authority with no admixture of falsehood or error.

• The Bible is everything God intends it to be. His Word stands forever sure as truth unchanging and unchangeable.

• The Word is pure as a pure light from a lamp whose flame does not flicker and whose rays pierce to the depths of man's darkness.

• We believe the Bible teaches that God established marriage in the beginning as a lifelong, exclusive relationship between one man and one woman.

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We believe God inspired the original writings of the Scripture and those original writings were consequently without error.

We believe that the Bible is the final authority for all matters of faith, truth, morality, and Christian living.

We believe the Bible teaches that God is the Creator and Sustainer of human life; that God creates each person in His image; and that life is therefore sacred, from conception to natural death. We believe that God creates each person as male or female; that these two distinct, complementary genders together reflect the "image of God" in humankind; and that each person's biological gender is an intrinsic, immutable aspect of his or her nature and identity.

We believe the Bible teaches that God established marriage in the beginning as a lifelong, exclusive relationship between one man and one woman.

4. The Church—God’s people on mission.

We believe in the Church of Jesus Christ, consisting of all Christians everywhere, and organized into local units, called churches.

We believe the Bible teaches that every Christian should be an active member of a local church.

We believe the Bible instructs church members to:

• Meet together regularly for fellowship, worship, teaching, and the Holy Communion.

• Use our natural abilities and spiritual gifts to serve one another.

• Love one another, bear with one another, accept one another, and forgive one another.

• Seek unity, agreement, and peace with one another.

• Bear one another's burdens and pray for one another.

• Spur one another to love and good deeds.

• Submit to the authority of the elders of the church.

• Support the church financially.

• Pursue personal holiness and obedience to God's Word.

• Strive together to fulfill the Great Commission.

Our Core informs Our 4 Beliefs