Page 6 - Statement of Beliefs

THE PREREQUISITE
TO GOD GRANTING
US THE NEW BIRTH
IS THE NEED TO FIRST REPENT

“… REPENT THEREFORE
AND BE CONVERTED,

THAT YOUR SINS MAY BE BLOTTED OUT…”
Acts 3:19

“…JESUS CAME TO GALILEE, PREACHING
THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AND SAYING,
‘THE TIME IS FULFILLED, AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND.

REPENT, AND BELIEVE IN THE GOSPEL.”
Mark 1:14-15

TRULY, THESE TIMES OF IGNORANCE GOD OVERLOOKED,
BUT NOW COMMANDS ALL MEN EVERYWHERE TO REPENT…”

Acts 17:30-31
“…I WAS NOT DISOBEDIENT TO THE HEAVENLY VISION, BUT
DECLARED FIRST TO THOSE IN DAMASCUS AND IN JERUSALEM,
AND THROUGHOUT ALL THE REGION OF JUDEA, AND THEN TO
THE GENTILES, THAT THEY SHOULD REPENT, TURN TO GOD,

AND DO WORKS BEFITTING REPENTANCE.”
Acts 26:19-21

“NOW WHEN THEY HEARD THIS, THEY WERE CUT TO THE
HEART, AND SAID TO PETER AND THE REST OF THE

APOSTLES, ‘MEN AND BRETHREN, WHAT SHALL WE DO?’
THEN PETER SAID TO THEM,
‘REPENT,

AND LET EVERY ONE OF YOU BE BAPTIZED
IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST
FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS…”
Acts 2:37-39