What We Believe

The following are the core beliefs of The Everyday Kingdom, Inc. based on the truths taught in the Bible. We ground all of our teaching and ministry in these foundational biblical doctrines.

There is one eternally existing God who reveals himself in three distinct persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. He is the creator of all that exists, both visible and invisible. God is perfect in love, power, holiness, goodness, knowledge, wisdom,  justice, and mercy. He is unchangeable and therefore is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

In Jesus Christ, God's son, the divine and human natures are perfectly and inseparably united. We believe he lived, suffered, and died on the cross, was resurrected, and returned to God and shall return to us. He has made possible through his death and resurrection our redemption and entry into the Kingdom of God and during his life taught us who God intends us to be and how to live in his Kingdom.

 We believe God created us to be in relationship with him and each other and intends for us so to live in all aspects of our human affairs and to experience the peace, purpose, and joy to be found in life every day now and forever in the Kingdom. We experience the eternal Kingdom of God not only after our deaths but also during our lives.

Humans, both male and female, were created in God's image for His glory, without sin to care for and enjoy of the rest of God's creations. Humans chose not to obey God and ceased to be what they were made to be and became distorted images of God. By choosing themselves over life as God intends for them, humans sinned and fell out of fellowship with God, and fractured all of creation in doing so. All humans continue to live in sin.

Jesus Christ, by grace, offers as a free gift eternal life to all who follow him, by faith, as their Lord and Savior. That is why salvation can be found in Christ alone. We are justified or accounted righteous before God only by faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, not through any work or action of ours no matter how well-intended or good in the eyes of humans. Good works are the fruits of faith, life in the Kingdom, and the process of sanctification, but they do not have the virtue to remove us from the consequences of our sin. Only salvation through faith in Christ Jesus can do that. People cannot sanctify themselves by their own works, no matter how good.

The Holy Spirit is one in being with the Father and Jesus. He leads and transforms humans to live in the Kingdom of God through faithful response to the gospel, in the fellowship of Christians through the Church and in service and witness to all. He comforts, sustains, and empowers Christians and guides them to the truth of the life God created them to live.

Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit and only of God's grace, cleansing humans from sin in their thoughts, words, and acts if they accept salvation and submit their lives to Christ. Sanctification enables them to be people living every day as God intends and witnessing to God’s Kingdom and glory through their words and actions. Sanctification does not deliver us completely from the infirmities, ignorance, and mistakes common to humans, nor from the possibilities of further sin. Our response to the process of sanctification by the Holy Spirit, however, brings release from the power of sin and closer alignment to who God intends us to be and what he intends us to do every day in his Kingdom.