Arrows of Christ Core Beliefs

Salvation

Salvation is the gift of God, brought to man by grace and received through personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, whose precious blood was shed on Calvary for the forgiveness of our sins. This salvation is by grace through faith plus nothing—not by works, not by law, not by human merit (Joh. 1:12; Eph. 1:7; Eph. 2:8–10; 1 Pet. 1:18–19; Tit. 3:5; Act. 17:30–31; Act. 20:20–21).

When a sinner is saved, he is made a new creature in Christ (2 Cor. 5:17). He is no longer bound by the superstition of a so-called “sin nature”—in other words, there is no God-sent curse or mystical inherited force that makes anyone sin. Rather, by God’s power, he becomes a partaker of the divine nature (2 Pet. 1:3–4).

Jesus Name

The name of Jesus is the sweetest and most lovely name in the universe, for it is the name of the Creator who has made everything beautiful in His time (Ecc. 3:11). His creation remains exceedingly beautiful, aside from man’s corruptions of it, and thus Jesus Himself is the very coalescence of all beauty. His wonderful name conveys the excellence and the eminence of all beauty.

Doctrinally, every Christian within the church body is privileged to breathe every utterance and to do every deed in the precious name of Jesus Christ (Col. 3:17). In His name we are saved (Act. 4:12), in His name we are baptized (Mat. 28:19), in His name we preach (Luk. 24:47), and in His name we gather (Mat. 18:20).

The Bible

Our greatest faith-building tool is the inerrant Word of God, which stands as our final authority in all matters of faith and practice (Psa. 12:6–7). The Old and New Testaments are the verbally and plenarily inspired Word of God—Scripture is inerrant, infallible, God-breathed, and the complete divine revelation of God to man.

The Bible has three proper senses of interpretation—literal, figurative, and spiritual—and it is written directly to either the Jews, the Gentiles, and/or the church of God (1 Cor. 10:32).

Therefore, we hold to the historic Textus Receptus line of Bibles, faithfully preserved through the centuries, such as the Matthews Bible, the Geneva Bible, the Great Bible, the Coverdale Bible, and the King James Bible. The underlying source text from which these Bibles come has proven to be the most reliable in all history. Because most of the good earlier editions are now out of print and difficult to obtain, we use the King James Bible in our Arrows of Christ meetings (2 Tim. 3:16–17; 2 Pet. 1:20).

Missions

God has given the church a Great Commission: to proclaim the Gospel to all nations, that there might be a great multitude from every nation, tribe, ethnic group, and language who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. As ambassadors of Christ, we are commanded to go into all the world—not waiting for the nations to come to us, but using every means available to carry the message of salvation to them (Mat. 28:19–20; Mar. 16:15; Luk. 24:46–48; Joh. 20:21; Act. 1:8; 2 Cor. 5:20).