All people, believers and unbelievers alike, will stand before Christ's judgement seat where all that they have done will be openly manifested. For believers the Judgement Seat is not a seat of condemnation because Christ has taken their condemnation upon himself. Rather, it is a seat of evaluation where believers, who are justified fully in Christ apart from their works, will be graciously rewarded for their works of service to Christ and others. The promise of a future reward should stimulate God's people to self-denying service to their Redeemer.
We Believe 29: After Death and the Resurrection
Christians are destined for a glorified, heavenly body after they are finished with their earthly body. Paul longs for his glorified body but wishes that it comes without him dying, that is, when Christ returns. If however, dying means the nearer presence of Christ then he would prefer to be away from his body. In the meantime, until either his death or Christ’s return our aim should be to please Christ, the one we love and adore.
Read 2 Corinthians 5:1-10
We Believe 28: The Lord’s Supper
In the Lord Supper the Lord Jesus gives himself to his people that they might have a share in all that he has accomplished for them by his death and resurrection. Believers who eat and drink by faith feed on Christ as their spiritual food.
Read Mark 14:12-31
We Believe 27: Baptism
Baptism was instituted by Jesus Christ as a mark of discipleship for his people. The disciples of Christ include believers and their children.
Read Matthew 28:16-20
We Believe 26: Communion of the Saints
The Church is not a place to go to so much as a place to belong to. Christianity, though personal, is corporate and communal and we are to give ourselves to one another is service.
Read Galatians 6:1-10
We Believe 25: The Church
The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the city of God and the mother of the saints. She is maintained by God and is the place of praise.
Read Psalm 87
We Believe 24: Marriage
Jesus reaffirms the creation ordinance of marriage which is to be between one man and one woman till God shall separate them by death.
Read Mark 10:1-12
We Believe 23: Government
Government is ordained by God as his servants to reward those who do good and punish those who do evil.
Read Romans 13:1-7
We Believe 22: I Swear
Christians should be men and women of their word and in this way reflect the faithfulness and integrity of their heavenly Father.
Read Matthew 5:33-37
We Believe 21: Religious Worship
God seeks worshipers, worshipers who will worship him through the Lord Jesus Christ and empowered by the Spirit. In fact, God desires such worshipers so earnestly he sent his Son to redeem his people from their native false worship.
Read John 4:1-42