# Beliefs — Three Creeks Church

> Source: https://threecreekschurch.com/beliefs/
> What Three Creeks Church believes, with the scripture behind each conviction.

_What we believe_

### Casual about a lot. Not about this.

We wear shorts to church and occasionally play games mid-service — but on doctrine we don’t wing it. Here’s the whole statement, references included.

![The congregation singing during a Sunday gathering.](https://threecreekschurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/worship-gathering.jpg)

- **Scripture** — We believe the Bible is true. The 66 books of the Old and New Testaments are inspired by God and without error as originally given.
- **God** — We believe in the one true God, who eternally exists as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- **Jesus** — We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ — his preexistence and deity, virgin birth, sinless life, substitutionary death, bodily resurrection, ascension, present ministry, and future return.
- **Holy Spirit** — The Holy Spirit is divine and active in believers — indwelling, filling, and empowering the Christian life and service.
- **Humanity** — Human beings were created in God’s image. Humanity’s fall into sin creates the need for spiritual rebirth.
- **Salvation** — Jesus is the only way to salvation. Salvation is God’s gift by grace, received through personal faith in Jesus Christ and his completed work.
- **Church** — The church exists to glorify God through worship, building up believers, and worldwide gospel witness.
- **Christian life** — Following Christ is the best possible life. We emphasize prayer, righteousness, reconciliation, truthfulness, and the fruit of the Spirit.
- **Ordinances** — We practice believer baptism by triune immersion, and a threefold communion — the bread and cup, the love feast, and the washing of feet.
- **Satan** — Satan is a real adversary — and his ultimate defeat is certain.
- **The return of Christ** — We look for the personal, visible return of Jesus, within a premillennial, pretribulational framework.
- **Eternity** — We believe in bodily resurrection and judgment — eternal life for the saved, eternal punishment for the lost.

_Questions welcome_

**Wrestle with it**

You don’t have to sign off on all of this to visit. Come with your questions — we like them.

Three Creeks is part of the Charis Fellowship, a family of churches sharing this confession.

### We believe the Bible is true, and we live our lives by it.