Statement of Faith

The sole basis of our beliefs is the Bible, God's infallible written Word.  We believe that it was uniquely, verbally and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit and that it was written without error (inerrant) in the original manuscripts. It is the supreme and final authority in all matters on which it speaks.

Further, Virtuous Reality Ministries believes the following:

1. There is one true God, eternally existing in three persons (otherwise known as “the trinity”). The trinity
represents the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - each of whom equally possesses all the attributes of Deity.

2. Jesus Christ is God, the living Word, who became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy
Spirit and His virgin birth. (John 1:1)

3. Jesus Christ lived a sinless life and voluntarily atoned for the sins of men by dying on the cross as their
substitute, thus satisfying divine justice and accomplishing salvation for all who trust in Him alone.

4. He rose from the dead in the same body, though glorified, in which He lived and died.

5. He ascended bodily into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God the Father, where He, the only
mediator between God and man, continually makes intercession for His own.

6. Man was originally created in the image of God. He sinned by disobeying God; thus, he was alienated
from his Creator. That historic fall brought all mankind under divine condemnation.

7. Man's nature is corrupted, and he is thus totally unable to please God. Every man is in need of
redemption to bridge the gap between sinful man and a Holy God.

8. The salvation of man is wholly a work of God's free grace and is not the work, in whole or in part, of
human works or goodness or religious ceremony. God imputes His righteousness to those who put their
faith in Christ alone for their salvation, and as a result, they are justified in His sight.

9. It is the privilege of all who are born again of the Spirit to be assured of their salvation from the very
moment in which they trust Christ as their Savior. This assurance is not based upon any kind of human
merit, but is produced by the witness of the Holy Spirit, who confirms in the believer the testimony of God in
His written word.

10. The Holy Spirit has come into the world to reveal and glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of
Christ to men. He convicts and draws sinners to Christ, imparts new life to them, continually indwells them
from the moment of spiritual birth and seals them until the day of redemption. His fullness, power and
control are appropriated in the believer's life by faith.

11. Every believer is called to live so in the power of the indwelling Spirit that he will not fulfill the lust of the
flesh but will bear fruit to the glory of God.

12. Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church, His Body, which is composed of all men, living and dead, who
have been joined to Him through saving faith.

13. God established the Church as a means for His people to assemble together on a regular basis for
worship, for participation in ordinances, for edification through the Scriptures and for mutual
encouragement.

14. At physical death the believer enters immediately into eternal, conscious fellowship with the Lord and
awaits the resurrection of his body to everlasting glory and blessing.

15. At physical death the unbeliever enters immediately into eternal, conscious separation from the Lord
and awaits the resurrection of his body to everlasting judgment and condemnation.

16. Jesus Christ will come again to the earth - personally, visibly and bodily - to consummate history and
the eternal plan of God, as prophesied in scripture.

17. The Lord Jesus Christ commanded all believers to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world and to
disciple men of every nation.