Rev. Dana Wilmot

My Statement of Faith

I believe that God is One in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

God the Father is the creator, giver of all life and created all things good. We were created to know God and to glorify God. Nevertheless, man and woman were tempted and fell into sin through disobedience. Throughout history, God has been active to redeem humankind. God gave the law so that we would know the difference between good and evil. We rebel against God and his law. We sin, become separated from God and need a redeemer.

The Son of God, Jesus Christ, is God’s self-revelation to us and our redeemer having given his life for the sins of the world. We can know God through God the Son who became incarnate. Jesus, fully God and fully human, is our mediator and calls us into relationship with him. In grace, God sent his only Son into the world so that we can be saved through the gift of faith in Jesus Christ. We are forgiven and reconciled with God through the Christ’s atoning sacrifice. Our only hope in life and in death is that we belong to Jesus.

After his ascension, God the Son along with God the Father, sent us the Holy Spirit so that we would not be alone and to empower us to serve God. The Holy Spirit convicts us of sin, persuades and enables us to embrace Jesus Christ by faith. Believers are united by the Holy Spirit in the body of Christ which is the Church.

The Church is sent as a faithful witness to the Gospel in a sinful world. The Church is sent to make disciples, baptize and teach them to obey all that God commands. Jesus is the head of the Church which consists of the church militant and the church triumphant.

I believe the Bible is the unique, authoritative Word of God and as God’s revelation must be read and proclaimed. It is through Scripture that we can know God. The Holy Spirit acting through the proclamation of the Word opens hearers to the living, resurrected Jesus.

Christ instituted for the Church two sacraments, baptism and the Lord’s Supper, as signs and seals of God’s grace. Baptism and the Lord’s Supper help to deepen what occurs during proclamation of the Word. Baptism with water represents God’s faithfulness, grace and covenant in Christ, cleansing of sin, dying with Christ and rising with him to new life, and adoption into God’s family, the Church. In baptism we are called to repentance, faithfulness and discipleship.

Christ established the Lord’s Supper for believers so we can partake of the bread and wine which are signs of the new covenant and so we can remember and proclaim his death and resurrection. Through the power of the Holy Spirit we are lifted into Christ’s presence during the Lord’s Supper and are united with Christ and all believers. In the Lord’s Supper, the Church is renewed, empowered and with thanksgiving anticipates the coming of the Kingdom.

Eschatology is the already and not yet as we await the Second Coming of our Lord. As new creations in Christ, we grow in Christ-likeness and experience a taste of the coming Kingdom of God.

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