At The House Port Charlotte, we believe the Bible is the written Word of God. Inerrant, authoritative, and true in form. Each word was divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit for us. It holds final authority in determining all doctrinal truth.

“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”

2 Timothy 3:16-17

The Apostles' Creed (2nd century) & the Nicene Creed (4th century) are the basis of true Christian belief, as confessed and held by the early Church.

I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds;

God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made.

Who for us men, for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate.

He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory to judge the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.

And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life; who proceeds from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified; who spoke by the Prophets.

And I believe in the one holy universal and apostolic Church.

I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.

Amen.

We believe the gospel to be the message of hope for all of humanity. The gospel is a message of good news, of God coming to us in the person of Jesus. His death, burial, & resurrection. Redeeming humanity through the forgiveness of sins, God creating the right relationship with us, & establishing the kingdom of God through his people, not by our doing but by his grace & power through the Holy Spirit.

The Church is the Body of Christ. Through the Church, God seeks to further establish his kingdom here on earth. The context for this community is to equip & build up one another as we seek to become mature and fulfill the calling of Jesus to make disciples.

We believe baptism to be an act of obedience in one's own Journey of following Jesus. This is a full immersion-water baptism not essential to one's own salvation but a proclamation of our devotion to Jesus that represents the transformational work that has happened and is happening inwardly through the spirit.