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, having precisely the same homage, confidence and obedience.


1 John 5:7; John 1:2,14; Acts 5:3,4

We believe that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God, conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, lived a sinless life, and is true God and true man.


Isaiah 7:14; Luke 1:35; Heb. 4:15

We believe that the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity; that His ministry is to convict the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment; to regenerate the unbelieving, and to sanctify, comfort, teach and empower believers by His indwelling fullness.


John 16:13,14; John 16:8; Acts 1:8; John 14:16,17; John 7:38,39

We believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death, but also that spiritual death which is separation from God, and that all men are sinful by nature and by choice.


Romans 3:10,23; Gen. 1:26,27; Gen. 3:1-6; Romans 5:12

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice; that all who believe in Him are justified on the basis of His shed blood.

Romans 5:6-9; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 3:13; 1 John 4:10; 1 Peter 1:18,19

We believe that salvation is by grace through faith, not of works and that all who repent (turn from sin to God) and receive by faith Jesus Christ as personal Savior and Lord, are born again of the Holy Spirit, thereby becoming children of God.


Ephesians 2:8,9; Acts 20:20,21; John 3:16; John 1:12; 1 John 5:11,12

We believe the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His

ascension into Heaven, and in His present ministry there for us as High Priest and Advocate.

Matthew 28:6-7; Acts 1:9-10; Hebrews 2:17 and 1 John 2:1

We believe in the personal, imminent coming of our Lord Jesus Christ for His Church, and later in His visible, bodily return to set up His Kingdom upon the earth.


1 Thessalonians 4:16-18; Acts 1:11; Matthew 24:44; Revelation 20:6

HISTORICAL NOTE: At the 2019 EFCA National Conference, held June 18-20 in Chicago, delegates voted to amend Article 9 of the EFCA Statement of Faith. The term “premillennial” was removed and replaced with “glorious,” placing the focus on the personal, bodily, and glorious return of Jesus Christ rather than a specific end-times timeline. While Community Gospel Church continues to use our historic doctrinal wording - which originally reflected a premillennial view - to honor our past and constitution, we now affirm the broader scope of eschatological views embraced by the EFCA. Since 2019, we not only continue to welcome those who hold a premillennial view but now also openly welcome those who hold amillennial or postmillennial convictions as members at CGC. This shift, emphasizing unity around the core truth of Christ’s return rather than the precise details of its timing, was communicated to our congregation following the EFCA conference that same year. We recognize the timing and sequence of Christ’s return as a secondary matter and strive to uphold unity in Christ, keeping the essentials of the Gospel central in all things.

We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust; the everlasting conscious blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost. 

We believe that Satan is a person, the author of sin and the cause of the fall of man; that he is the open and declared enemy of God and man; and that he shall be eternally punished in the Lake of Fire.


Job 1:6,7; Isaiah 14:12-17; Matthew 4:2-11; Revelation 20:10

We believe in the Church, a living, spiritual body of which Christ is the Head, and of which all regenerated people are members; and that the local, visible church is a company of believers in Jesus Christ, associated together for worship, work and fellowship.


Matthew 16:16-18; 1 Corinthians 12:12,13; Colossians 1:18; Acts 2:41,42,47

We believe in the observance of the ordinances of *Baptism and the Lord’s Supper in obedience to the commands of Christ; that Baptism is the immersion of a believer in water as the outward expression of an inward experience of salvation and union with Christ; an that the Lord’s Supper is a memorial of Christ’s death, to be observed only by believers and to be preceded always by solemn self-examination.


Matthew 28:19; Romans 6:3-5; Acts 8:36-39; Matthew 26:26-30; 1 Corinthians 11:23- 29

*EFCA NOTE: As stated above, Community Gospel holds to believer’s baptism by immersion as an ordinance for those who have personally trusted in Jesus Christ for salvation. We understand baptism as an outward expression of an inward transformation - symbolizing salvation, the washing away of sin, and our union with Christ in His death and resurrection. We recognize that the EFCA, in its Statement of Faith, refers to baptism in the context of the Holy Spirit's work in salvation: “He [the Holy Spirit] regenerates sinners, and in Him they are baptized into union with Christ and adopted as heirs in the family of God.”

The EFCA allows for both believer’s baptism (credobaptism) and infant baptism (paedobaptism) within its fellowship of churches, permitting churches to hold differing convictions while maintaining unity in Christ. While Community Gospel does not practice infant baptism, we joyfully celebrate child dedication as a way for parents to commit to raising their children in the knowledge and love of Christ, supported by the local church.

For further understanding of the EFCA’s broader position on baptism and how churches like ours fit within that fellowship, we encourage you to explore the following resources:

• Baptism: Infant and Believer

• Ecclesiology and Baptism

In all things, we seek to remain grounded in Scripture, faithful in practice, and unified in the essentials of the Gospel.

We believe that the children of God should live in such a manner as not to

bring reproach upon their Savior and Lord and that separation from all religious apostasy, all worldly and sinful pleasures, practices and associations is commanded by God.


Romans 12:1,2; Romans 14:13; 1 John 2:15-17; 2 Corinthians 6:14-17; 2 Timothy 3:1-5

We believe that it is the privilege and obligation of the saved to witness by life and by word to the truths of Holy Scripture and to seek to proclaim the Gospel to all mankind.


Romans 1:14-16; 2 Corinthians 5:19,20; Acts 1:8; Mark 16:15