CCM Records
Statement of Faith
Preamble
We the members of the CCM Records – join together
in our affirmation of the following articles and our central purpose of
proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ and introducing people everywhere
to Jesus Christ and helping them grow in their faith through Christian
Music.
Article I
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments,
being given by divine inspiration, are the Word of God, the final and supreme
authority in all matters of faith and conduct.
Article II
In the Scriptures, God reveals Himself as the
living and true God, Creator of all things. Perfect in love and righteous
in all His ways, this one God exists eternally as a Trinity of persons:
the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Article III
God made man and woman in His image that He might
have fellowship with us. Being estranged from God by our disobedience,
we are, as sinful people, incapable of a right relationship to God apart
from divine grace.
Article IV
The only Mediator between God and all human beings
is Jesus Christ our Lord, God’s eternal Son, who as man fully shared and
fulfilled our humanity in a life of perfect obedience.
Article V
By His death in our place, Jesus revealed the
divine love and upheld divine justice, removing our guilt and reconciling
us to God. Having risen bodily from the dead and ascended into heaven,
He rules as Lord over all and intercedes for us as our Great High Priest.
Article VI
The Holy Spirit, through the proclamation of
the Gospel, renews our hearts, persuading us to repent of our sins and
confess Jesus as Lord. By the same Spirit we are led to trust in divine
mercy, whereby we are forgiven all our sins, justified by faith through
the merit of Christ our Savior, adopted into God’s family as His children
and enabled so to live in the world that all people may see our good works
and the Gospel of grace at work in our lives and glorify our Father who
is in heaven.
Article VII
God, by His Word and Spirit, calls us as sinful
people into the fellowship of Christ’s body. Thus He creates the one holy,
catholic and apostolic church, united in the bonds of love, endowed with
the gifts of the Spirit and summoned by Christ to preach the Gospel and
to administer the sacraments, to carry on the ministry of reconciliation,
to relieve human need and to strive for social justice.
Article VIII
God’s redemptive purpose will be consummated
by the return of Christ to raise the dead, judge all people and establish
His glorious kingdom. Those who are apart from Christ shall be eternally
separated from God’s presence, but the redeemed shall live and reign with
Him forever. |
