What We Believe

At the Space Coast Church of Christ we seek to follow God’s Word, the Bible, and it's teachings.  We consider at the foundation of its teaching is that “God is love.”
  Jesus taught that the first and greatest commandment is to love God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and the second is to love your neighbor as yourself.  God’s love for us is demonstrated in Jesus Christ and the sacrifice He made for us.  Our love for God is shown by our lives following these two great commandments. We love because He first loved us.

I John 4:8, 16 & 19; Hebrews 4:12; Matthew 22:37-40

The Bible is God’s Word and serves as our foundation and final authority on Christian beliefs and guide to living. It is divinely inspired by God and was given to mankind so that we might know and understand God’s love. It allows us to know His story and how to return to it.

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
~ 2 Timothy 3:16-17 

There is one eternally existing God who has three distinct persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. He is the creator of all that exists, both visible and invisible, and is therefore worthy of all glory and praise.  God is perfect in love, power, holiness, goodness, knowledge, wisdom,  justice, and mercy. He is unchangeable and therefore is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. He is the father of Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit, and yet still one with both as God. The Father adopts believers into relationship with Him as he lovingly prunes/disciplines believers to strengthen them for His glory.

Genesis 1:1; Psalm 90:2; Matthew 3:17; Matthew 28:19; Luke 1:35; John 15:1-2; Romans 8:15-17

Jesus Christ came to reconcile us with God.  Made like us, He lived a life without sin and willingly died on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins. God raised him from the dead and now, by grace, offers as a free gift eternal life to all who follow Christ, by faith, as their Lord and Savior. That is why salvation can be found in Christ alone.

The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. We have seen his glory,  the glory of the one and only Son, who cam from the Father,  full of grace and truth.  ~ John 1:14

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ~ John 14:6

The Holy Spirit is one with the Father and Jesus Christ and serves as our comforter, guide, and advocate. Those who accept Jesus as their Savior receive the Holy Spirit to live inside them. The Spirit gives Christians guidance in living, an understanding of the Bible, and prayerfully intercedes for them.

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. ~ Luke 14:26

For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit...  And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit. ~ Ephesians 2:18, 22

We believe that humanity, created by God in his image, willfully sinned, and as a result is lost, separated from the Father and without hope apart from Jesus Christ.

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. ~ Genesis 1:27

This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. ~ Romans 3:22-24

People were created to exist forever. We will either exist eternally separated from God by sin, or eternally with God through the forgiveness of our sin.  We believe that it is when a person is baptized into Jesus they are then forgiven and receive the Holy Spirit.

Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.  ~ Acts 2:38

We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.  ~ Romans 6:4

The Church is meant to be the visible body of Christ, sent into the world to glorify God and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ.  The church is the Body of Christ on earth, empowered by the Holy Spirit to continue the task of leading others to faith in Christ and teaching followers of Christ to obey and serve Him. Involvement in a local church is critical to individual growth, fellowship, and support for life's day-to-day challenges.

 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called;  one Lord, one faith, one baptism;  one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
~Ephesians 4:4-6