The Point
As Scottsdale Bible Church celebrates its 50th year of vibrant ministry in Scottsdale and around the globe it is healthy and helpful to take a look at our core values and beliefs. In 1962, when SBC was birthed, one of the very first things the original group of believers did was to draw up a “Statement of Faith” – declaring the fundamental things that the Bible says is true about God, this world and spiritual life. These are doctrinal truths that unify us and guide us. They act as parameters for membership and become the rallying point for our action – whether it be with each other or the world around us. It’s hard to overestimate the importance of a Church’s belief structures, as they shape and form all we do, pointing us in a particular direction.
This series will take our congregation on a journey through our Statement of Faith and ask the question, “What’s the Point?” Covering topics such as the importance of the Bible, the nature of God, the nature of man, salvation, the End Times, and the Church, we will rediscover “The Point” of our beliefs as we combine Scripture and reason to understand more fully our Christian faith.
January 22: “What’s the Point” – Titus 2:1
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January 29: “The Starting Point” – 2 Timothy 3:16
STATEMENT OF FAITH: “We believe in the Scripture of the Old and New Testament as being verbally and completely inerrant in the original writings and of supreme and final authority in faith and life.”
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February 12: “Three Pointer” – 1 Peter 1:2
STATEMENT OF FAITH: “We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”
STATEMENT OF FAITH: “We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary and is true God and true man. The Holy Spirit was sent by the Father as promised to convict the world of sin, to glorify Jesus and to transform the lives of believers into the likeness of Christ.”
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February 19: “The Tipping Point” – Romans 5:12-21
STATEMENT OF FAITH: “We believe that man was created in the image of God; that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death, but also that spiritual death which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature and in the case of those who reach moral responsibility, become sinners in thought, word and deed.”
February 26: “The Turning Point”
STATEMENT OF FAITH: “We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are redeemed and justified on the ground of His shed blood.”
STATEMENT OF FAITH: ”We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, His ascension into heaven, and His present life for us as our High Priest and Advocate.”
STATEMENT OF FAITH: ”We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God, a relationship in which they are eternally secure.”
March 4: “The Breaking Point” – Titus 2:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
STATEMENT OF FAITH: “We believe in “that Blessed Hope,” the personal, pre-millennial and imminent return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
March 18: “The Point of No Return” – Revelation 20:11-15
STATEMENT OF FAITH: “We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and of the unjust; the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost along with Satan and the other fallen angels.”
March 25: “The Connecting Point” – John 1:12; 1 Corinthians 12:12-13
STATEMENT OF FAITH: “We believe that the Church is a spiritual organism made up of all believers in Christ; that in its local manifestation it is an autonomous assembly of believers and that its ordinances are baptism and the Lord’s Supper.”
