IBS-STL's Statement of Faith

We Believe

In the divine inspiration of all 66 books of the Old and New Testaments as originally given, guaranteeing their total trustworthiness and absolute authority for faith and life;

In one God, eternally existing in three Persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit;

In the deity of Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His substitutionary 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 and imminent return in power and glory;

That all people are sinners by nature, that they cannot save themselves, and that salvation is possible only through the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit;

That salvation is a free gift of God entirely apart from works and is possessed by all those who have, by faith, received the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Savior;

In the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life and to overcome the attacks of Satan;

In the bodily resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous, the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting punishment of the lost; and

In the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ, who are thus members of His Body, the Church.