"Everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible but not everything is constructive. Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others."

1 Corinthians 10:23-24

Statement of Faith

I. Holy Scriptures

We believe the Holy Scriptures - the Old Testament and the New Testament - were written by the men who were divinely inspired, are infallible, and recording God's revelation of truth.

The Word of God is essential for our salvation, and displays God's sovereign goodness and His providential plan for all creation in Jesus Christ.

The Bible is to be received through the Holy Spirit as the supreme standard, authoritative rule and guide by which all human conduct, faith and practice should be governed.

II. God

We believe in the One and only true, holy and living God, who is the Creator, Sovereign, and Preserver of all things visible and invisible.

We affirm the eternal God reveals Himself as the Triune God, the Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, distinct Persons, but without division, eternally One in nature, essence and power.

III. Jesus Christ

We believe Jesus Christ is the One and Only begotten Son of God and the eternal Word-made-flesh in His incarnation as Jesus Christ, truly God and truly Man, and the only Messiah.

He lived a righteous life without sin, suffered His sacrificial and atoning death on the Cross, and rose from the dead.

Death and resurrection of Christ are the key events in the redemption of mankind from sin and the new standing with God.

He ascended into heaven and is now exalted as Lord of all at the right hand of God, from which He shall return in power and glory to judge the world and to consummate His redemptive mission.

We affirm Jesus Christ alone is the Mediator, Savior, ever-present Lord, Sanctifier and coming King.

IV. Humanity

We believe God created man in His own image, but man willingly sinned against God, ushered sin and death into the world, is inclined to evil, and fallen from God's righteousness.

Only the grace of God can bring fallen humanity into reconciliation and enable them to fulfill the creative purpose of God: To become a new creation, God's redeemed and beloved in Jesus Christ.

V. Salvation

We believe salvation is a work of God's grace and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior through repentance of sins to God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

God is reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, in whom we are brought into a new relationship of peace and favor with God by changing the direction of our lives from sin toward God, receiving God's forgiveness, and submitting to the Lordship of Jesus Christ over our lives.

We affirm that salvation involves the redemption of a whole man in regeneration, sanctification and glorification.

VI. The Church

We believe the Church is the body of Christ and the fellowship of God's people who have responded to His call to follow Him, to love, worship, and serve Him.

The Church includes all of the believers of all the ages who are redeemed by God and confess Christ as their Savior and Lord.

Gathered by the covenant in faith, the Church is called to carry out Jesus' Great Commission: Winning the lost to Christ and making disciples of all nations. Each member is called to cooperate and be accountable for the life of the Church and the ministry of Jesus Christ.

These two ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper are administered in Hosanna Church.

VII. New Life in the Holy Spirit

We believe all who are by faith accepted to God's family in His forgiving and reconciling grace and baptized in water and in the Holy Spirit are expected to grow in grace.

Christ's people are enabled to serve God with volition and affection and to live a holy, fruitful and victorious life by the power of the indwelling Spirit of God.

The fruit of the Spirit and all good works for God spring from a true and living faith. Life in grace can be nurtured and matured through the means of grace and by various gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Our goal is to love God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength, and to love our neighbors as ourselves along the journey of the faithful life.

VII. Last Things

We believe Jesus Christ will return in glory and power, all the living in Christ will be raptured, all the dead will be raised, and Christ will judge according to Righteousness.

Those who are judged righteous by their faith will be raised to life eternal in their eternal and glorified bodies and inherit the everlasting kingdom of God, reigning forever with the Lord Jesus.

Those who are judged unrighteous will be subject to endless condemnation with Satan and the fallen angels.

Therefore, we are looking forward to the glorious appearance of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness.