What We Believe

Village Bible Church is an evangelical church that focuses on the essential doctrines of the Christian faith, while allowing for a diversity of opinion concerning doctrinal matters that are less critical to our purpose of ministering to people's spiritual needs.

Our Doctrinal Statement was designed to outline our core beliefs, while including Scriptural support. It expresses what we believe true Christians must affirm. It is not meant to represent all that Christians should believe but includes the essential truths that we believe authentic Christians must not deny.

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Doctrinal Summary

  • Village Bible Church is an evangelical church that focuses on the essential doctrines of the Christian faith, while allowing for a diversity of opinion concerning doctrinal matters that are less critical to our purpose of ministering to people's spiritual needs.
  • We believe that the Bible is the verbally inspired Word of God, without error as originally written. It is the complete revelation of God’s will for salvation and the only unfailing rule of faith and practice for the Christian life.
  • We believe in one God, the Creator of all things, eternally existing in three persons – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – and that these three are equal in dignity and power.
  • We believe in the full deity and full humanity of Jesus Christ; His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit; His virgin birth; His sinless life; His substitutionary death on the cross; His bodily resurrection; His ascension to the right hand of the Father; and His personal, imminent return.
  • We believe that humanity was created by and for God; that as a consequence of Adam’s disobedience to God every human being has incurred the sentence of both physical and spiritual death, which is eternal separation from God; and that all people are sinners by nature and practice.
  • We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins and that all who turn from sin and place their trust in Him are declared righteous and come into right relationship with God.
  • We believe that the Holy Spirit regenerates and indwells all believers and that he empowers them for life and ministry.
  • We believe that the Church, which is the body of Christ and of which Christ is the Head, is made up of all who have been truly born again.
  • We believe in the bodily resurrection of everyone who has ever lived – the everlasting blessedness of those who are in right relationship with God, and the everlasting punishment of those who have rejected God's forgiveness in His Son.
  1. 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21;
  2. Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:19; Galatians 1:1; Colossians 2:9; Acts 5:3-4.
  3. Matthew 1:23; John 1:1, 14; Romans 3:25, 8:34; 1 Corinthians 15:50; Philippians 2:5-8; Colossians 2:9; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; I Peter 2:22, 24. 
  4. Genesis 1:26-28; Romans 3:23, 5:12.  
  5. Romans 10:9-10; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4;  2 Corinthians 5:21.  
  6. John 14:17, Romans 8:9, 11, 13; 15:13. 
  7. I Corinthians 12:12-13; Colossians 1:18.  
  8. I Corinthians15:35-57; Revelation 20:11-15.