What we Believe
Our Beliefs
The Holy Scriptures as taught by the Protestant churches, and delineated in the historic confessions of the Reformation (as summarized on the right), namely:
The Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England (1562)
The Heidelberg Catechism (1562)
By Grace Alone
The sole exercise of the grace of the triune God in salvation through faith.
By Faith Alone
The sole sufficiency of faith in our union with Christ and for participation in all the benefits of redemption.
By Scripture Alone
The sole authority of the Word of God being the only rule of faith and life.
Nothing shall be taught or encouraged contrary to the consensus of the above confessions provided that where the said confessions are not in agreement each worker shall be at liberty to teach, encourage and practice whichever of the views he himself embraces.
What We Teach
In its ministry to the Jewish people, Christian Witness to Israel maintains its unreserved allegiance to God’s Holy and inerrant Word, the Bible. Our Basis of Faith requires that we believe and teach the following:
1. We believe and teach that the Creator is one God in three Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
2. We believe and teach that God created all people in his own image. By willful disobedience against God human beings fell into the sin and misery in which we all have been born. Therefore Jews and Gentiles alike are under the condemnation of God, prone to evil and liable to eternal death; from which we cannot be delivered except through the unmerited grace of God our Saviour.
3. We believe and teach that God has not left the world to perish in its sin but, out of his great love, decided to deliver an innumerable multitude of Jews and Gentiles out of their sin and misery and of them to build again his covenant kingdom of righteousness.
4. We believe and teach that God has redeemed his people through the promised Messiah, Jesus our Lord who, though he was and ever continues to be the eternal Son of God, was born of the lineage of David, born under the law, that he might redeem them that are under the law. He bore the penalty due to our sins and fulfilled the obedience owed to God, and now presents believers to his Father, to the praise of the glory of his grace.
5. We believe and teach that Jesus the Messiah our Redeemer died, rose again, and ascended into the heavens, where he sits at the right hand of the Father Almighty.
6. We believe and teach that the redemption accomplished by our Lord Jesus the Messiah is applied to all his people by the Holy Spirit and received by faith. The Spirit is granted to us so that we may do the good works which God has prepared for us to do.
7. We believe and teach that God has one people in the world, his Church, made up of believing Jews and Gentiles. He has endowed it with the ministry of the Word and his holy ordinances, in order that the Gospel may be made known to the world.
8. We believe and teach that Jesus the Messiah will come a second time in glory, to judge the world. All who die in Messiah shall be made perfect in holiness and go home to the Lord; all who do not die in Messiah shall consciously abide under the just and eternal wrath of God.