Our Belief
Grace is the unmerited favor of God, freely bestowed through Christ, constituting the foundation of salvation and the means by which humanity is reconciled to God. It is wholly independent of human merit and serves as both the initiating and sustaining power of the Christian life. Beyond redemption, grace operates transformatively, enabling sanctification and faithful obedience. Theologically, common grace denotes God’s universal beneficence toward all creation, while saving grace effects spiritual regeneration. Thus, grace functions as the dynamic expression of divine love active in both personal salvation and the moral order of the world.
To live by faith is to trust in God’s providential plan, even without full understanding, relying on His guidance as revealed in Scripture.
Faith is central to Christian theology as the means by which believers receive justification before God. Conforming to sola fide, salvation rests solely on Christ’s perfect obedience and substitutionary atonement, received through faith apart from human merit.
In Christianity, according to different traditions, faith is understood as:
- A fruit of regeneration and a gift from God: it arises from the transforming action of the Holy Spirit, who enables the heart to believe.
- A comprehensive response to divine grace: it unites a personal commitment to the living God (trust and commitment of the heart) and an intellectual commitment to revealed truths. Thus, faith is manifested through active trust, enlightened knowledge, and joyful obedience, in response to God’s merciful initiative.
Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6). As long as we do not come to Him, we will not have life. God gives eternal life, and this life is in His Son (1 John 5:11). Whoever has the Son has life (1 John 5:12). His word is trustworthy: “Come to Me to have life” (John 5:40).
If you come, you will be truly, invincibly, and finally alive.
In Christ's Love
