Doctrine

The following is the Statement of Faith of Frisco Bible Church.  Agreement with it represents one of the qualifications for membership.

  • We believe in one God, Creator of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three persons.
  • We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, born of the virgin Mary; we believe that Christ shed his blood on the cross, dying for our sins as a substitutionary sacrifice, and that he arose bodily from the grave and ascended into heaven; we believe that man finds salvation only through faith in Jesus Christ as his personal Savior.
  • We believe that the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, equal with God the Father and God the Son; he indwells every believer from the moment of salvation and empowers the Christian for Godly living.
  • We believe that all true believers from the day of Pentecost until the Rapture are members of the universal church regardless of organizational affiliation.
  • We believe that the Scriptures are inspired by God, without error in the original writing, and the divine and final authority for all Christian faith and life.

 

The following is the Doctrinal Statement of Frisco Bible Church.  Agreement with it represents one of the qualifications for serving on the elder board.

Scripture
We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, that every word in the original manuscripts is inspired by God, without error, and that the Scriptures in their completeness are of supreme and final authority in all matters of faith and life (Ex. 17:14; 2 Tim. 3:16-17;2 Pet. 1:20-21; Matt. 5:7-18).

Godhead
We believe in one God eternally existing in three equal persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Deut. 6:4; Ps. 90:2; Matt. 28:19; Eph. 4:6; Heb. 1:8; John 14:16-17; Acts 5:3-4).

Jesus Christ
We believe that Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. We believe that during His life on earth He was true man, while retaining His absolute deity that He might reveal God and redeem sinful man (John 1:1-4, 14-18; 14:8-12; Heb. 1:8; Is. 7:14; Matt. 1:16, 20-21; Luke 1:34-35; Phil. 2:5-8; 1 Tim. 2:5-6).

We believe in the literal, physical resurrection from the dead of our Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ was bodily exalted to the right hand of God. As His people's high priest He fulfills the ministry of intercession and advocacy, and He provides our access to God (Matt. 20:19; 1 Cor. 15:1-8; Eph. 1:19-21; Heb. 1:3, 12:2; Heb. 4:14-16, 7:23-25; Eph. 2:17-18).

Salvation
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a substitutionary sacrifice acceptable by God; and that all who receive Him by grace through faith are justified on the basis of His shed blood (Matt. 20:18; 1 Cor. 15:3-4; 2 Cor. 5:21; 1 John 2:2; Eph. 2:8-9; 1 Peter 1:18-19; Rom. 3:23 -26, 5:8-10).

The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit
We believe the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Godhead. He convicts the world of sin, regenerates those who receive Christ as Savior, baptizes them into the body of Christ, indwells them permanently, seals them unto the day of redemption, bestows spiritual gifts on each one, and fills and empowers those yielded to Him (John 16:8-11; Titus 3:5; 1 Cor. 12:13; 1 Cor. 6:19; Eph. 1:13, 4:30; 1 Cor. 12:4-11; Romans 12:4-8; Eph. 5:18; Acts 1:8).

Angels, Fallen and Unfallen
We believe angels are spiritual beings who were created as sinless personalities. They presently exist in both fallen and unfallen states, the former including Satan and his angels (Heb. 1:13-14; Jude 6; Ez. 28:11-15; Is. 14:12-20; 2 Pet. 2:4).

We believe that Satan, by choice the enemy of God and the people of God, led our first parents into sin and now rules as the god of this world. We believe he was judged at the cross and that ultimately he will be cast into the lake of fire (Eph. 2:2; Heb. 2:14; Rev. 20:10).

Mankind and Sin
We believe that man was created in the image of God, but in Adam's sin the human race fell and incurred not only physical death, but also spiritual death which is separation from God. Man inherited sinful nature causing all human beings to be born with a sinful nature (Gen. 1:26-27; Gen. 3:1-24; Gen. 3:19; Rom. 5:12-14; Ps. 51:5; Rom. 3:9-12; 3:23, 5:12-14; Eph. 2:1-3).

Sanctification
We believe that sanctification, which is a setting apart unto God, is positional, practitional, and permanent. Positionally, it is already complete since the believer is in Christ; however, since he retains his sinful nature there is need for practitional sanctification in his daily experience whereby the Christian grows in grace by the power of the Holy Spirit. Permanent sanctification will occur in the presence of the Lord with the absence of the sin nature, where position and practice will be consistent (John 17:17;

2 Cor. 3:18; Gal. 5:16; 1 Thess. 5:23; Heb. 10:10; 1 Peter 1:13-16).

The Church and Ordinances
We believe that the church in its invisible form is a universal and spiritual organism, the true body and bride of Christ. All who are born again are members regardless of organizational affiliation. We believe the Lord instituted and ordained water baptism and the Lord's Supper (Eph. 1:22-23; Rom. 12:4-5; 1 Cor. 12:12-14, 18, 27; Col. 1:18; Matt. 26:26-28; 1 Cor. 11:23-26).

Future Things
We believe in the personal, imminent coming of the Lord Jesus Christ for the Church to be followed by the tribulation on earth which will culminate in the return of Christ to earth to set up His millennial kingdom (1 Thess. 4:13-18; Rev. 3:10; Matt. 24:15-31; Zech. 14:4-11; Rev. 20:1-6).

The Eternal State
We believe Christians at death immediately pass into the presence of Christ, and there remain in conscious bliss until the resurrection of the body at the coming of Christ for the Church. Unbelievers remain after death in conscious misery in Hades until the final judgement at the close of the millennium, when they are cast into the lake of fire(Luke 16:19-26, 23:43; 2 Cor. 5:8; Phil. 1:23; 2 Thess. 1:7-9; Rev. 20:11-15).


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