Statement of Faith & Accountability

 

Statement of Faith

We believe the Bible is the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.

We believe the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are the one and only eternal God, who is the Creator and Sustainer of all things. “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.” Deuteronomy 6:4 (ESV)

We believe in the incarnation, virgin birth, sinless life, death on the cross, substitutionary atonement for sin, bodily resurrection and future return of God the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

We believe in the present power and work of God, the Holy Spirit, in the conviction of sin, regeneration, sanctification, and the giving of spiritual gifts to believers for the building up of the body of Christ.

We believe in salvation by the free gift of grace apart from works, through repentance and personal faith in Jesus Christ, the Lord, and that true salvation will result in the manifestation of the Lordship of Jesus Christ – a Godly life.

We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the lost: the saved, unto eternal joy in the presence of God, and the lost, unto eternal damnation, shut away from the presence of God.

We believe that all human life is sacred and created by God in His image. Human life is of inestimable worth in all its dimensions.

We believe that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as male or female, and that these two distinct, complementary sexes together reflect the image and nature of God.

We believe that the term “marriage” has only one meaning: the uniting of one biological man and one biological woman in a single, exclusive, and life-long union, as delineated in Scripture.

We believe that any form of sexual activity outside the context of biblical marriage is sinful and offensive to God.

We believe that evolutionary theory[1] is false and cannot be read back into the Scriptures without compromising the biblical text.

This statement of faith does not exhaust the extent of our beliefs. The Bible itself, speaks with final authority concerning truth, morality, and the proper conduct of mankind.

 

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception [pseudo-intellectual babble], according to the tradition [and musings] of mere men, following the elementary principles of this world, rather than following [the truth—the teachings of] Christ.

Colossians 2:8 [AMP]

 {1} Although we understand that adaptations within species generated by God given mechanisms for optimization and survival, sometimes called micro-evolution, are certainly at work in plants, animals and humans, we reject as false Darwinian and Neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory, sometimes called macro-evolution, where biological life is said to have evolved from lower to higher forms, either by slow and gradual genetic mutation and natural selection, or by contemporary developments in macro-evolutionary theory such as punctuated equilibrium. We reject as false all macro-evolutionary theory including theistic evolution; the idea that God directed evolutionary processes.

We believe that Adam and Eve are the unique creation of God, His image bearers who are without predecessors.



Accountability

Ballet Magnificat is an inter-denominational Protestant ministry of Christian believers, called by God to maintain the highest standard of excellence artistically, technically, spiritually, and morally. All company dancers, apprentices, trainees, staff and volunteers are expected to conduct themselves according to the standards of the Ballet Magnificat Code of Conduct and Statement of Faith. We maintain and assert peer accountability and individual accountability to a local church.

 

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