We
believe with faith:
In
the One and Only Living God, eternally existing as Abba
(Father), Ben (Son), and Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit).
He is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He is One
God. As it is written "Sh'ma Yisrael, Adonai
Eloheinu, Adonai Echad" - "Hear, O Israel, the
God our God, the God is One."
That, according to the Scriptures, Yeshua (Jesus) was
born of a virgin. He is the promised Messiah of Israel
and the Redeemer of the entire human race. By His
obedient life, sacrificial death, and victorious
resurrection, He fulfilled the prophecies in the Tanach
that speak of Messiah's first coming. According to the
Scriptures, He will also return.
In
the work and presence of the Ruach HaKodesh. He brings
forth the fruit of righteousness in the lives of all
followers of Messiah. The Ruach HaKodesh also
distributes gifts that lead to the building up and unity
of the Body of Believers.
That God created man in His own image, endowing him with
a longing for intimate fellowship with Himself.
That man's disobedience (sin) to God's revealed will
cause a separating between God and man that leads to
death.
That the ONLY provision God made for reconciling man to
Himself is the atoning work of Yeshua. The blood that
poured out from His body while He hung on the execution
stake became an offering for sin. The Father, as
evidenced by Yeshua's bodily resurrection from the
grave, accepted the sacrifice.
That all who repent from sin and accept God's salvation
through Messiah are born again. Salvation is a free gift
from God, by His chesed (grace), and is received by
having faith in Yeshua's atoning work and by doing the
Father's wil.
In
tevilah (immersion) of believers, as commanded by the
Scriptures, which symbolizes the death of the "old"
person and the rebirth into newness of life.
That those who have placed their trust in Yeshua as
Adonai (Lord) are born again. They are born into the
family of God, the Body of Messiah. This family includes
both Jews and non-Jews. Non-Jews, being "wild branches",
who have been grafted into "the good olive tree," along
with Jews, being "the natural branches", who have
received the promise of the God of their fathers.
That the Bible, both the Tanach and the Brit Chadashah
(New Covenant Scriptures), is the only inspired,
authoritative Word of God, which is man's true
foundation of faith, conduct, and eternal life.
That God gave the Torah for moral instruction and
righteous living for all generations and reveals God's
plan of salvation. Yeshua did not come to destroy Torah,
but to establish and fulfill it.
That God chose Israel to be a blessing to all nations.
The day will come when Israel, as a nation, will accept
Messiah Yeshua. Yeshua will return bodily, according to
the Scriptures, and the Word of God will then go forth
from Zion to establish His worldwide rule from
Jerusalem. Our peoples' return to Eretz Yisrael is a
fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.
In
the unity of all believers in Yeshua of Messiah. As
followers of Yeshua and as part of the nation of Israel,
we embrace our Biblical and cultural Jewish heritage.
This is our identify - a witness to the faithfulness of
God