Statement of Faith Scripture

Statement of Faith
Scripture

Tucson Christian Church is an assembly of Christians gathered under the truth, authority, and sufficiency of the Bible as the only Word of God.

The 66 books of the Bible are the truth, all the truth men can know on Earth, and nothing but the truth. God the Holy Spirit, who wrote the Bible, convinces those who have been chosen by Christ that the Bible alone is the Word of God.

The Bible is authoritative because it is the only infallible guide for our faith and life. Nothing – church tradition, private revelation, secular philosophy, or personal opinion – is to be added to the Bible at any time.

Scripture is sufficient in its directions for the doctrine, worship, and mission of the church. God repeatedly warns men neither to add to nor to subtract from the Bible.

The only infallible interpreter of Scripture is Scripture itself. When there is any question about the meaning of a verse, the question must be settled by other verses that speak more clearly.

The supreme judge in all controversies is the Holy Spirit speaking in the Bible alone.

We affirm that the sole authority for the Church is the Bible, verbally inspired, inerrant, infallible, and totally sufficient and trustworthy.

We deny that the Bible is a mere witness to the divine revelation, or that any portion of Scripture is marked by error or the effects of human sinfulness.

We affirm that the authority and sufficiency of Scripture extends to the entire Bible, and therefore that the Bible is our final authority for all doctrine and practice.

We deny that any portion of the Bible is to be used in an effort to deny the truthfulness or trustworthiness of any other portion. We further deny any effort to identify a canon within the canon or, for example, to set the words of Jesus against the writings of Paul.

We affirm that truth ever remains a central issue for the Church, and that the church must resist the allure of pragmatism and postmodern conceptions of truth as substitutes for obedience to the comprehensive truth claims of Scripture.

We deny that truth is merely a product of social construction or that the truth of the Gospel can be expressed or grounded in anything less than total confidence in the veracity of the Bible, the historicity of biblical events, and the ability of language to convey understandable truth in sentence form. We further deny that the church can establish its ministry on a foundation of pragmatism, current marketing techniques, or contemporary cultural fashions.

We affirm the centrality of expository preaching in the church and the urgent need for a recovery of biblical exposition and the public reading of Scripture in worship.

We deny that God-honoring worship can marginalize or neglect the ministry of the Word as manifested through exposition and public reading. We further deny that a church devoid of true biblical preaching can survive as a Gospel church.