What is a 'Statement of Faith?'

Every local church stands by certain key doctrines that the Bible teaches.  While different churches and denominations may differ on the finer points of theology, the essentials must be true to what the church of our Lord Jesus Christ has believed and taught ‘everywhere by everyone all the time.’

Lighthouse Statement of Faith

Lighthouse, being affiliated with the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches (PCEC) upholds its Statement of Faith as follows:

A.    The Bible, the Word of God, its divine, verbal, plenary inspiration and its inerrancy and infallibility as originally written; and its supreme
       and final authority in faith and life (2 Timothy 3.16 and 2 Peter 1.20-21).
B.    One God eternally existing in three distinct Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Deuteronomy 6.4, Matthew 28.19, and 2 Corinthians 13.14).

C.    The Lord Jesus Christ:

1.    His essential, absolute and eternal Deity (Philippians 2.6; John 1.1,14 and Hebrews 1.8).
2.    His true and sinless humanity (1Peter 2.22 and 1 John 3.5).

3.    His Virgin Birth (Isaiah 7.14 and Matthew 1.20).

4.    His substitutionary and propitiatory death (Matthew 20.28; Mark 10.45 and 1Timothy 2.16).
5.    His bodily resurrection (Acts 1.11).
6.    His ascension to the right hand of the Father (Mark 16.19 and Acts 1.20).
7.    His coming again with power and great glory (Titus 2.13 and Revelation 10.11-16).


D.    The Holy Spirit who shows the redeeming purpose of God in the world by convicting the world of sin, of righteousness and judgment
        and by regenerating, uniting to Christ, indwelling, sanctifying, illuminating and empowering for service all who place complete faith
        in the Lord Jesus Christ (Hebrews 9.14; John 14.26; 1 Corinthians 2.10-11 and 1 Corinthians 12.11).
E.    The total depravity of Man because of the Fall (Genesis 3.10-24).
F.    Salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ apart from works (Ephesians 2.8).
G.    The everlasting bliss of the saved and the eternal suffering of the lost (Daniel 12.2; John 5.24; Revelation 20.14 and Luke 16.24-26).
H.    The real spiritual unity in Christ of all redeemed by His precious Blood (1 Corinthians 12.13; Ephesians 1.4-6; 4.11-15 and 5.25-26);
       and the necessity of maintaining, according to the Word of God, the purity of the Church in doctrine and life (1 Corinthians 6.19-20
       and 1 Thessalonians 4.3).