What We Believe About the Real Jesus
At FBC Moweaqua, our mission is to love God wholeheartedly, love others selflessly, and live as the hands and feet of Jesus. Because of that, what we believe matters deeply. Our faith is rooted in the Bible and centered on the real Jesus—His life, His death, His resurrection, and His transforming power at work in us. The beliefs below summarize the core truths that guide how we love, serve, worship, and live in our community and beyond. These essential doctrines unite us as a church family and shape everything we do.
There is only one true and living God who is the Creator of heaven and earth. He exists eternally in three distinct Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Gen 1:26; Deut 6:4; Ps 45:6-7; Isa46:9-10; Matt 3:13-17, 28:17-20; John 17:3; 1 Cor 8:4-6; 1 Tim 2:5)
There is One Triune God.
The Bible is God’s written revelation of Himself to mankind. The Scriptures are entirely true, completely authoritative, and totally sufficient for all matters of life and faith. (Ps 19:7-11; 2 Tim 3:16; 2 Pet 1:20-21)
The Bible is God’s Word.
Humans are created by God to bear His image. They are the crowning work of God’s creation worthy of love, dignity, and respect regardless of matters like age, race, gender, or class. (Gen 1:26-27, 6:5; Ps 51:5, Jer 17:9; Rom 3:23, 5:8, 5:12-21, 7:18; Eph 2:1-3)
People are Created in the Image of God.
Because of Adam’s fall, all people have disobeyed God willfully through sin, thus inheriting both physical and spiritual separation from God and the need for redemption. Only by the grace of God through Jesus Christ can sinful humans experience salvation. (Gen 2:15-17, 3:19; Rom 5:12, 6:23; Jas 1:14-15)
People are in need of Redemption.
Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, was born of a virgin, and is both fully God and fully human. He lived a sinless life and died on the cross as the sacrificial substitute to pay for the sins of mankind. (John 1:29, 10:1-18; Rom 5:8; 1 Cor 15:1-4; 2 Cor 5:21; Gal 1:4; 1 Pet 3:18; Isa 7:14; Luk 1:27)
Jesus Christ Died on a Cross.
Jesus Christ rose from the dead, ascended into heaven, and will one day return. (Matt 28:1-20; Mark 16:1-8; Luk 24:1-53; John 14:3; 1Cor 15:12-34; 1 Thess 4:16; Heb 9:28; Rev 1:7)
Jesus Christ Rose Again.
Salvation comes only through a faith relationship with Jesus Christ, the Savior and only mediator between God and man, as a person repents of sin and receives Christ’s forgiveness and eternal life. This salvation is wholly of God by grace on the basis of Christ’s life, death, and resurrection, not on the basis of human works. (John 3:18, 4:16; Eph 2:8-9; Acts 4:12; Rom 3:21-26; 1 Tim 2:5-6, Joel 2:32)
Jesus is the only way to Salvation.
The Holy Spirit immediately places all people who put their faith in Jesus Christ into one united spiritual body, the Church, of which Christ is the head. (Rom 12:4-5; 1Cor 12:27; Eph 4:12-13; Col 1:17-18)
The Church is Christ’s Body.
God will bring the world to an end. At that time, Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth. Christ will judge both the saved and the unsaved. Those who have trusted Christ will receive a glorified body and dwell forever with the Lord. Those who have not trusted in Christ will spend eternity in hell, the place of everlasting punishment. (Matt 25:31-46, John 5:28-29; Acts 24:15; Rev 19-21, Dan 12:2)
Jesus Christ Will Return.
God will bring the world to an end. At that time, Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth. Christ will judge both the saved and the unsaved. Those who have trusted Christ will receive a glorified body and dwell forever with the Lord. Those who have not trusted in Christ will spend eternity in hell, the place of everlasting punishment. (Matt 25:31-46, John 5:28-29; Acts 24:15; Rev 19-21, Dan 12:2)