WE BELIEVE
• that the Bible, as contained in the sixty-six canonical Books from Genesis to Revelation, are the inspired, inerrant, verbal, plenary, confluent Word of God;
• that they do not merely contain the words of God, but are the very Word of God down to the most minute detail of design.

WE BELIEVE
• that man was specially created in the image and likeness of God as touching His communicable Attributes;
• that man of his own uncoerced free will rebelled against God and His just rule;
• that the direct result of this rebellion is spiritual death and separation from God ultimately resulting in physical death;
• that death and corruption came through Adam's sin and did not exist in the universe prior to this event;
• that man is now utterly incapable of redeeming himself and correcting his sorrowful state, that he cannot hope by works of service or any other such thing to bring himself to God.

WE BELIEVE
• that God the Son, Second Person of the Triunity, took upon His full Deity full Humanity in the Incarnation;
• that He became Man while at all points retaining His immutable Deity, without confusion of Natures yet with absolute integrity of Person;
• that He lived a life in perfect obedience to His Father's will and Law, as no man ever is able to in his fallen humanity;
• that He willfully died to pay the just penalty of our rebellion as a vicarious sacrifice, was raised bodily from the dead on the third day as reckoned by the Jews, ascended into heaven, and presently sits at His Father's right hand until all things are placed under His feet as predicted in Scripture;
• that He will return again soon, before the seven-year period at the end of human history known as the Tribulation to take for Himself a Bride, the redeemed of all mankind throughout the ages, to keep them from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the God-rejecting world.

WE BELIEVE
• that salvation is to be had by grace alone through faith alone in Jesus' atoning death in our stead;
• that works are not in the least a prerequisite for this salvation, but are only the visible proof of this salvation;
• that man is absolutely incapable of maintaining his position before God, and it is solely the unfathomable grace of the Great God that keeps a man secure in his redeemed state;
• that those who are truly regenerate will exhibit this regeneration by living a holy life through the power of the Holy Spirit, by submission to and dependence upon Him, confessing and repenting of their sins as the Spirit convicts.

WE BELIEVE
• that the Holy Spirit -- Who is Himself God, the Third Person of the Triunity -- indwells and empowers Christians;
• that He imparts gifts according to His Sovereign will to each believer in Jesus;
• that these gifts are for the edification of the Body, and among these gifts are tongues, interpretation of tongues, prophecy, gifts of healing, word of knowledge, word of wisdom, discernment of spirits, miracles, helps, mercy, faith, government, and that this is by no means an exhaustive list;
• that the evidence of being filled with Him is the production of His Fruit, according to Scripture.

WE BELIEVE
• that the Church is composed of all the redeemed of mankind from this dispenstation, and are thus a subset of the totality of the Redeemed, distinct from national Israel, though containing within herself both Jew and Gentile;
• that the Church is the one vehicle of God's grace and operation in this dispensation, and that it in no way, manner, or form can be so thought of as to have supplanted national Israel or replaced her;
• that God's purposes for national Israel are not fulfilled, but will be with the last of Daniel's predicted Seventy Weeks of years;
• that the Church is primarly not organizational -- that is, there is no "one true denomination;"
• that all the Redeemed of this dispensation are of the Church (that the Redeemed, in fact, define the Church, as our LORD has said, "where two or three are gathered in My Name, there am I in the midst");
• that even in the best local church you will still find unregenerate souls;
• that the Church is powerless to save, but is simply a congregation of those who are already saved by virtue of their relationship to Jesus Christ.

WE REJECT
the irrational, religious hypothesis of "evolution," whether theistic or atheistic; this including any and all conclusions of evolution, including secular psychology, secular philosophies, and all humanocentric conceptions of any sort.

WE REJECT
any addition to faith in the equation of personal salvation.

WE REJECT
the teachings of both "Five-Point Calvinism" and "Five-Point Arminianism," especially the Calvinist teachings of a "limited atonement" and "irresistible grace," and the Arminian teachings of an overemphasis on free moral agency and the inherent semi-Pelagian concept of a lack of assurance concerning one's salvation.

WE REJECT
the teachings of cessationism, which have no solid Biblical basis.

WE REJECT
the teachings and practices of hypercharismaticism/ hyperpentecostalism, especially the overemphasis on experience and emotion to the detriment of sound reasoning and doctrine.

WE REJECT
outright the antichristian, metaphysical teachings of the so-called "Word-Faith Movement," more properly called "Kenyonism," which are based on the teachings of metaphysician E. W. Kenyon; these teachings are extremely deadly to the Body of Christ, and have nothing whatsoever to do with the historic, Scriptural Christian faith. We reject specifically the emasculated, nonsovereign demigod of Kenyonism, the deification of mere mortal man, the metaphysical concept of faith, the oversimplified concept of perfect health and wealth, and the practice of eisogesis concerning the Word.

Statement of Faith is from Calvary Chapel of Northern Kentucky's website as of the year 2004.

We at Contenders for Christ do believe and uphold the Statement of Faith outlined in the Calvary Chapel of Northern KY Statement, with the following modifications:


• Along with the rejection of evolution, secular psychology, unbiblical Christian counseling , and the Word-Faith movement, we reject the secular and unbiblical philosophies of Rick Warren & Bill Hybels (ie. Seeker-friendly churches and the Purpose Driven Church), Ecumenical movements, Feminist/Sophia Doctrines, the Laughing Revival/River theologies, Promise Keepers theology, Modernism, Tolerance, Open Theism, the Emergent Church, and the New Age movement. For a complete list of those philosophies we reject click on "Ministry Links". If you think that it is impossible for that many people to be incorrect, think again. God is the one sending the strong delusion (2 Thess. 2:11), and God is the one who sends false prophets to test us (Deut. 13:3). God doesn't do things half way, and this delusion is meant to separate those who are His from those who serve the devil.

• Although we do not support feminism or the Sophia movement, we do believe that women have a vital role in the church. Women have been used to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ, since the beginning of the church. Many of these women "preachers" have borne fruit for the Lord and won souls to Jesus. Until effectively proven otherwise, we hold to the belief that there is nothing unscriptural about women teaching the Scriptures or doctrine. We believe that in these last days God will pour out His spirit upon ALL flesh, which includes women.