The Christian Wu Kung Association

The Scriptures:

We believe that all scripture is given by inspiration of God, by which we understand the whole Bible is inspired in that holy men of God were moved by the Holy Spirit to write the very words of God. We believe that this divine inspiration extends equally to all parts of the writings as they appeared in the original manuscripts. We believe that all scriptures center around the Lord Jesus Christ and that no portion, even of the Old Testament, is properly read, or understood, until it leads to Him. We believe that all scriptures were designed for our practical instruction. (Matt. 5:17-18; 2 Tim. 3:16-17;
2 Peter 1:20-21)

The Godhead:

We believe that the Godhead eternally exists in three persons the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit and that these three are one God, co-equal and co-existent. (Matt. 28:19; 2 Cor. 13:14; Acts 5:3-4; Heb. 1:8)

Christ's Advent:

We believe that the eternal Son of God came into this world that He might manifest God to men, fulfill prophecy, and become the redeemer of a lost world. To this end He was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin, received a human body and a sinless human nature. (Luke 1:30-35; John 1:1,14,18; Heb. 4:15)
We believe that He remained a perfect, sinless man, yet retained His absolute deity, being at the same time very God and very Man. We believe that He voluntarily accepted His Father's will and became the divinely provided sacrificial Lamb and took away the sin of the world, bearing the holy judgment against sin, which the righteousness of God must impose. His death was, therefore, substitutionary and by His death He became the Savior of the lost. (2 Cor. 5:21; Heb. 10:5-14; 1 Peter 3:18)
We believe that, according to the Word of God, He arose from the dead in the same body, though glorified, and that His resurrection body is the pattern of that body which all believers shall inherit. (John 20:20; 1 Cor. 15:3-5; Phil. 3:20)
We believe that in then ascending He became the Head over all things to the Church, which is His body, and in this ministry He ceases not to intercede and advocate for the saved. (Eph. 1:22-23; Heb. 7:25; 1 John 2:1)

Salvation:

We believe that, owing to death through sin, no one can enter the Kingdom of God unless born again; and that no degree of works can otherwise provide the sinner with the new life that makes him a son of God. This redemption has been accomplished solely by the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, who was made to be sin, dying in our place; and no repentance, no feeling, no faith, no ordinance of the church, can add in the least degree to the value of the blood in the finished work wrought for us by Him who united us to Himself. (John 3:5; Rom. 5:6-9; 1 Peter 1:18.19,23)
We believe that the new birth of the believer is an act of God the Spirit and comes only through individual faith in Christ and no other act such as confession, baptism, prayer, or faithful service is to be added to believing as a condition of salvation. (John 1:12; Rom. 1:16; Gal. 3:24)
We believe that one exercising this faith is immediately out of spiritual death into spiritual life, and from the old creation into the new, having his place and portion as linked to Christ and one with Him forever. Though the saved one may have occasion to grow in the realization of his blessing, as soon as he is saved he is in possession of every spiritual blessing and is complete in Christ. (Rom. 5:1; 2 Cor. 5:17; Eph. 1:3)

The Holy Spirit:

 We believe that the Holy Spirit, the third person of the blessed Trinity, though omnipresent from all eternity, indwells every believer since the day of Pentecost, and by His baptism unites all Christ's own into one body. He is the source of all power and all acceptable worship and service. (Rom. 8:9)
The baptism of the Holy Spirit occurs immediately upon saving faith when we are placed in the body of Christ, the true church; the filling of the Holy Spirit is as the occasion demands for service. (1 Cor. 12:13)
The Spirit is the earnest of our inheritance and seals us until the day of redemption. We believe there are well-defined gifts of the Holy Spirit which are given out by His sovereign will and are not to be prayed for, nor sought after by any special prayer, but it is the believer's privilege to yield to the Spirit in order that He might use us in any capacity for His glory. (Eph. 4:30)

We believe that all who are united to the risen and ascended Son of God are members of the true Church, which is the Body and Bride of Christ; which began at Pentecost and is completely distinct from Israel. We are placed into the church by the baptism of the Holy Spirit and made one body, that is Christ's, whether Jews or Gentiles. (Eph. 4:3-6)
We believe that God has ordained that through the local church the Gospel of Jesus Christ is to be spread and that it is the duty of every Christian to seek out a local fellowship for the furtherance of the gospel and his own edification. (Eph. 1:20-23)
We believe that the local church has two ordinances only: water baptism and the Lord's Supper. (Acts 2:41; 1 Cor. 11:26)

The Rapture:

We believe that according to the Word of God, the next great event in the fulfillment of prophecy will be the coming of the Lord in the air to receive to Himself into Heaven both His own who are living and those who died in Him. We believe that the translation of the church will be followed by the fulfillment of Israel's seventieth week during which time the Church, the Body of Christ, will be in heaven. The period is known as the tribulation. (1 Cor. 15:51-52; 1 Thess. 4:16-17; Rev. 3:10)
We believe that the period of great tribulation in the earth will be climaxed by the return of the Lord Jesus Christ to the earth as He went, and with power and great glory to introduce the millennial age, to bind Satan and place him in the abyss, restore Israel to her own land and to give her the realization of God's covenant promises. (Matt. 25:31; Rev. 19:11ff)

Satan:

We believe that God created an innumerable company of sinless, spiritual beings, known as angels and that one, the highest ranking, sinned through pride, thereby becoming Satan. (Isa. 14:12-17; Ezek. 28:11-19; 2 Peter2:4; Jude 6)
We believe that Satan is the originator of sin, and that, under the permission of God, he, through subtlety, led our first parents into transgression, thereby accomplishing their moral fall and subjected them and their posterity to his own power; that he is the enemy of God and the people of God. (Gen. 3:1ff; Heb. 2:14)
We believe that Satan was judged at the cross, though not then executed, and that he now rules as the god of this world; and that, at the second coming of Christ, Satan will be bound and cast into the abyss for a thousand years, and after the thousand years he will be loosed for a little season and then cast into the lake of fire. (John 12:31; Eph. 2:2; Rev. 20:2)

The Eternal State: