{"id":48,"date":"2017-06-28T21:04:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T21:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/whitleysalt\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2018-02-27T14:52:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T14:52:16","slug":"statement-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/whitleysalt\/statement-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Association member groups share a faith in Jesus Christ<\/p>\n<p><strong>We believe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;in the\u00a0<strong>Holy Scriptures<\/strong>\u00a0as originally given by God, divinely inspired, infallible, entirely trustworthy; and the supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One\u00a0<strong>God<\/strong>\u00a0, eternally existent in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Our\u00a0<strong>Lord Jesus Christ<\/strong>\u00a0, God manifest in the flesh, His virgin birth, His sinless human life, His divine miracles, His vicarious and atoning death, His bodily resurrection, His ascension, His mediatorial work, and His Personal return in power and glory&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Salvation<\/strong>\u00a0of lost and sinful man through the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ by faith apart from works, and regeneration by the Holy Spirit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Holy Spirit<\/strong>\u00a0, by whose indwelling the believer is enabled to live a holy life, to witness and work for the Lord Jesus Christ&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Unity<\/strong>\u00a0of the Spirit of all true believers, the Church, the Body of Christ&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Return<\/strong> of Jesus Christ to fulfil the purposes of God, who will raise all people to judgement, bring eternal life to the redeemed and eternal condemnation to the lost, and establish a new heaven and new earth.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Dignity<\/strong> of all people, made male and female in God&#8217;s image to love, be holy and care for creation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-207\" src=\"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/whitleysalt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/02\/cropped-SALT-Circle-Blue-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/whitleysalt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/02\/cropped-SALT-Circle-Blue-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/whitleysalt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/02\/cropped-SALT-Circle-Blue-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/whitleysalt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/02\/cropped-SALT-Circle-Blue-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/whitleysalt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/02\/cropped-SALT-Circle-Blue-1-270x270.jpg 270w, https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/whitleysalt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/02\/cropped-SALT-Circle-Blue-1-192x192.jpg 192w, https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/whitleysalt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/02\/cropped-SALT-Circle-Blue-1-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/whitleysalt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/02\/cropped-SALT-Circle-Blue-1-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/whitleysalt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/02\/cropped-SALT-Circle-Blue-1.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Association member groups share a faith in Jesus Christ We believe &#8230;in the\u00a0Holy Scriptures\u00a0as originally given by God, divinely inspired, infallible, entirely trustworthy; and the supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct&#8230; One\u00a0God\u00a0, eternally existent in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit&#8230; Our\u00a0Lord Jesus Christ\u00a0, God manifest in the flesh, His virgin &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/whitleysalt\/statement-of-faith\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Statement of Faith&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-48","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/whitleysalt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/whitleysalt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/whitleysalt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/whitleysalt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/whitleysalt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/whitleysalt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/whitleysalt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/whitleysalt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}