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To believe in Jesus Christ is to believe in and belong to a dynamic community that spans the centuries. The Greek word ekklesia, used in the New Testament to refer to the church, denotes not a building but a group of people. It literally means “those who are called out.” The church is not a

The doctrine of the ascension assures us that Christ has been exalted and glorified, and that his power and glory can be revealed and reflected in our lives. The creed states that Jesus now sits at the right hand of God. This suggests special favor and status, and it suggests that Jesus has the

Jesus Christ suffered and died “so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil—and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death” (Hebrews 2:14-15). We are not offering some soothing words to ease the pain of

If Jesus is just a man, a human being like the rest of us, he shares our need for redemption—in other words, he can’t redeem us. He is part of the problem, not the solution to it. On the other hand, if Jesus is God, and God alone, he has no point of contact with us. He cannot relate to those

Any idea of God as an impersonal being or force is immediately discounted when we speak of God as Father. To talk about God as our Father is to speak of his authority and care, but it is also to speak of his creativity. We are here because God brought us into being. Everything we see in the