Our Beliefs

Wellspring joyfully affirms the important historical Creeds of the Christian Church as expressed in the Nicene Creed and the Five Solas of the Reformation.

  1. The Triune God: We believe in one God, eternally existing in three equally divine Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

  2. Revelation: We believe that God has inspired the words preserved in the Scriptures, the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments. These writings alone constitute the verbally inspired Word of God, which is utterly authoritative and without error in the original writings.

  3. Creation of Humanity: We believe that God created human beings, male and female, in His image. Adam and Eve belonged to that created order that God Himself declared to be very good, serving as God’s agents to care for, manage, and govern the creation, as well as living in holy and devoted fellowship with their Maker.

  4. The Fall: We believe that Adam, made in the image of God, distorted that image and forfeited his original blessedness—for himself and all his progeny—by falling into sin through Satan’s temptation. As a result, all human beings are alienated from God, corrupted in every aspect of their being (e.g., physically, mentally, volitionally, emotionally, spiritually) and condemned finally and irrevocably to death—apart from God’s own gracious intervention.

  5. The Incarnation: We believe that, moved by love and in obedience to his Father, the eternal Son, Jesus, became human: the Word became flesh, fully God and fully human being, one Person in two natures.

  6. The Gospel: We believe that by his incarnation, life, death, resurrection, and ascension, Jesus Christ acted as our representative and substitute. He did this so that in him we might become the righteousness of God: on the cross he canceled sin, propitiated God, and, by bearing the full penalty of our sins, reconciled to God all those who believe. Salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.

  7. The Holy Spirit: We believe that this salvation, attested in all Scripture and secured by Jesus Christ, is applied to his people by the Holy Spirit who is the down payment of the promised inheritance, and in this age indwells, guides, instructs, equips, revives, and empowers believers for Christ-like living and service.

  8. The Church: We believe that the church is the body of Christ and therefore is His tangible instrument to continue His ministry on the earth, even in its imperfection. The church serves as a sign of God’s future new world. Its members live to exalt Christ by sharing His grace and truth with all people, and serving others in humility. The church is the corporate dwelling place of God’s Spirit and the continuing witness to God in the world.

  9. The Restoration of All Things We believe in the personal, glorious, and bodily return of our Lord Jesus Christ with his holy angels, when he will exercise his role as final Judge, and his kingdom will be consummated. We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the just and the unjust.