Edgewater Community Church – Beliefs

We Believe:

The Scriptures
Every word in the original writings is inspired by God and is without error. The Scriptures of the
Old and New Testaments are the foundation of our faith.

God
God exists eternally in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (the Trinity). The
three have distinct personalities and yet are of the same substance: one God.

Jesus Christ
The eternal Son of God became incarnate in the Lord Jesus Christ, being born of the virgin
Mary, and is true God and true man. He died physically on the cross and was bodily
resurrected three days later, and thereafter bodily ascended to heaven.

The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity. He regenerates, indwells, baptizes, and seals
all believers in Christ at the point of faith in Christ, and empowers those yielded to God.

Man
Man is the special creation of God, made in His own image. He created them male and female
as the crowning work of His creation. Sin entered the world through one man, with the result
that all of mankind are sinners. All mankind is justly condemned to eternal judgment and can do
nothing on their own to merit salvation.

Salvation
Salvation is given to those chosen by God and drawn to Christ by the Holy Spirit. The only
means to their salvation is belief in Christ’s substitutionary death and resurrection.