What We Believe

OUR CORE BELIEFS

The Bible

We believe the Scriptures of the Old Testament and New Testament are inspired, breathed out by God, and inerrant in their original writings. We believe the 66 books of the Old Testament and the New Testament are God’s complete and sufficient revelation and therefore carry God’s authority for the total well-being of humanity.

PSALM 119:160 | MATTHEW 5:18 | John 5:46-47 | 2 Timothy 3:15-16

One Living God

We believe in the only true living God, One God, externally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit

.Matthew 28:19 | John 10:30 | Ephesians 4:4-6

God the Son

We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious 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.
Matthew 1:20-23 | John 1:1 | Romans 8:34 | 2 Corinthians 5:21 | Hebrews 1:3

Salvation

We believe that salvation is a gift of God brought to man by grace and received only through personal repentance of sin and faith in the person and the finished work and atoning blood of Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 1:7 | Ephesians 2:1-10 | John 1:12

Humanity

We believe God made humankind, male and female, in His own image, to glorify Him and enjoy relationship with Him and one another. He created each person with intrinsic dignity and worth. Therefore, every person—every race, every color, every nationality, pre-born, every age, life stage and ability—is infinitely and equally loved in God’s eyes. So we will seek to value and uphold the God-breathed dignity and worth in each human being.

Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, were innocent under God’s law, but by their voluntary transgression they fell from this sinless and joyful state, bringing death and condemnation into the world. Consequently, all people are sinners not only by our own choice, but by inheritance. Therefore, we are justly condemned and on our own we have no defense or excuse. Without exception, every man and every woman is totally depraved and desperately needs a Savior.

Genesis 3:1-6; John 8:24; Romans 1:18-20, 1:32, 3:10-19, 5:12

Heaven, Hell & The Return of Christ

We believe in the blessed hope of the personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ. His return has a vital bearing on the personal life and service of the believer. We believe in the bodily resurrection of all people, both those who are saved by trusting Christ and those who are lost based on their sin. The saved are raised to eternal, conscious joy in heaven, and the lost are raised to eternal torment in hell in separation from God.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 | Matthew 8:12, 10:28, 13:49-50, 25:34 | Mark 9:47-48 | Luke 12:5 John 14:2-3 | 2 Corinthians 5:1 | Revelation 2:7, 21:8

Facets of our Faith

Above we stated central truths that are essential to the Christian faith. Below are facets of that faith where brothers and sisters in Christ may disagree on the details, we will live and practice our faith as stated below.

  • We understand that God created the universe and that, before He created the universe, nothing except God existed (Genesis 1; Exodus 31:17; Psalm 33:6-9; Acts 17:24; Hebrews 11:3; Colossians 1:16). God chose to create the universe and all that is in it to reveal His glory, divine nature, eternal power, infinite wisdom and supreme authority (Isaiah 43:7; Psalm 19:1-2; Jeremiah 10:12; Romans 1:20; Revelation 4:11)

  • We understand that all people are descendants of Adam and Eve, whom God created personally and individually as complete human beings (Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7, 2:21-22; 1 Corinthians 11:8-9). Through the fall of Adam and Eve, we all suffer the effects of sin and death, but the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ gives everyone the opportunity to receive God’s gift of eternal life with Him (Romans 5:18-19; 1 Corinthians 15:21-22). God rules over His creation and cares about and is involved in the lives of individual people (Job 12:10; Acts 17:25; Colossians 1:17; Ephesians 4:6).

  • A person who professes genuine faith in Christ immediately becomes His possession (Luke 23:42-43; Acts 2:40-41, 16:30-34; Romans 10:13), and nothing can snatch that person out of His hands (John 10:27-29). Having been bought with the price of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion as complete payment for sin, the believer belongs to Christ (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). This assurance is absolutely certain, reserved in heaven, and protected by God’s unlimited power (1 Peter 1:4-5).

  • A faithful and thorough reading of the Bible leads us to the clear understanding that God created humankind in His image: male and female. Each person’s gender is determined by their creator as evidenced by their genetics and/or physiology and God instills each person, regardless of their gender, with equal value and dignity (Genesis 1:26-28; Romans 1:26-32; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11; Matthew 15:19, 1 Thessalonians 4:3, Hebrews 13:4).

  • We understand that God created and designed marriage as a sacred union between one man, the husband, and one woman, the wife (1 Corinthians 7:2), and that God’s plan and intent for sexual intimacy is exclusively for the union of a man and a woman within the marriage relationship. Therefore, any sexual conduct outside of marriage is a distortion of God’s designed order for human flourishing and His glory (Genesis 1:27; Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:4-6; Mark 10:5-9; Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11; Ephesians 5:25-27; Revelation 19:7-9; Revelation 21:2).

  • We understand that each person is created by God in His image and is fully deserving of our love, and respect (John 13:34-35). All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and that redemption and restoration is available for everyone who turns from sin to find mercy and forgiveness through Christ. (1 Corinthians 6:9-11, Ephesians 2:1-10, Titus 3:3-7). Therefore, we treat with compassion and sensitivity all who are tempted or who have engaged in sexual sin. (Matthew 11:28-30; Romans 3:23; Ephesians 2:1-10; 1 Corinthians 10:13; Hebrews 2:17-18; Hebrews 4:14-16; 1 John 1:9). Our understanding of these matters leaves no room for bigotry or hate. We seek to share the Gospel with all (Mark 16:15). As such, although not condoning gender diversity, same-sex marriage or other sexual expression outside of God’s path, Cogworks Junction welcomes all who are earnestly seeking after the Lord and biblical teaching.