The following is our official doctrinal statement of Faith as approved by the leadership of Souls United.
We understand and celebrate the principle “In the essentials we are UNIFIED and in the non-essentials there is LIBERTY, but above all LOVE.” We are united by the fundamentals but there is freedom to disagree on the non-essential even within Church doctrine.
We believe the Holy Bible to be the inspired and only infallible, authoritative Word of God (2 Tim. 3:16-17)
We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit (Isaiah 44:8; 2 Cor. 13:14)
We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious death and atonement through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His present priestly ministry (1 Tim. 3:16; Romans 3:25-26)
We believe in evangelistic and missionary fervor and endeavor (Acts 1:8; Mark 16:15-18)
We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful man, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential. We further believe in the keeping power of God. (Hebrews 9:22; Jude 24-25)
We believe that sanctification, holiness, and the overcoming of life is God’s design for the Church, which is the Bride of Christ. (Ephesians 5:25-27)
We believe that water baptism is for believers in the Lord Jesus Christ and is to be administered by immersion, thus bearing witness to the Gospel of Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection for us, and our own new life in Him (Matthew 28:19; Romans 6:4)
We believe in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit as on the day of Pentecost and in the continuing ministry of the Holy Spirit as evidenced in charismatic gifts and ministries, and in the fruit of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer. (Acts 2:4; Acts 10:46)
We believe the baptism of believers in the Holy Spirit is witnessed by the initial physical sign of speaking with other tongues as the Spirit of God gives them utterance (Acts 2:4) the speaking in tongues in this instance is the same in essence as the gift of tongues (1 Corinthians 12:4-10, 28), but different in purpose and use.
We believe in divine healing and that it is obtained on the basis of Atonement. (1 Peter 2:24; Matthew 8:17)
We believe in Christ’s imminent personal return in power and great glory and in His everlasting dominion. (Acts 1:8; Revelation 1:7; Daniel 7:14)