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First, please read the GCU doctrinal statement in the Class Resources. Explain how GCU’s Christian heritage will make your academic experience different based on GCU’s Christian identity and heritage. (100-125 words minimum).Next, discuss how your undergraduate and graduate experience (based on the provided readings) will be different given GCU’s Christian heritage and identity, as well as the narrow focus of graduate school. (100 -125 words minimum).
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Doctrinal Statement
WE BELIEVE the Bible, in the Old and New Testament Scriptures to be inspired, the only infallible, true and
authoritative Word of God.
WE BELIEVE that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We believe
in God the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.
WE BELIEVE in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, the only Son of God. For us and for our salvation He came
down from heaven, was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became truly human. Being fully
God and perfect man He performed miracles and lived a sinless life.
WE BELIEVE Jesus Christ suffered a vicarious and atoning death through the shedding of His blood. He was
buried and on the third day was resurrected in His body; after which He ascended to be seated at the right hand
of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.
WE BELIEVE that mankind was originally created in the image and likeness of God, and free from sin. Through
the temptation of Satan, they transgressed the command of God and fell from their original righteousness,
whereby all people have inherited a sinful nature that is opposed to God, and are thus under condemnation. As
soon as they are capable of moral action, they become actual transgressors.
WE BELIEVE that for salvation of lost and sinful people, the regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely
essential. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to
live a godly life. We believe that the Holy Spirit is fully God and is worshipped and glorified with the Father and
Son. He divinely inspired the scriptures, convicts the world of sin, righteousness and judgment, leads Christ’s
Church in truth and is the Teacher and Comforter sent by Jesus Christ.
WE BELIEVE that salvation comes through Jesus Christ alone; that salvation involves the redemption of the
whole person and is offered freely to all who exercise faith in Jesus Christ. We believe in the resurrection of both
the saved and the lost; those who are saved unto the resurrection of the living and those who are lost unto the
resurrection of damnation.
WE BELIEVE in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ as one holy catholic and apostolic
Church, Christ’s Body and Bride ministering reconciliation to a lost world. As ambassadors for the Kingdom of
God and the Church, we affirm that evangelism and engagement in societal issues are both part of our Christian
duty; both are necessary expressions of our doctrines of God and humanity, our love for our neighbor and our
obedience to Jesus Christ.
WE BELIEVE the message of salvation proclaimed by Christ’s Church is an indictment upon every form of
alienation, oppression and discrimination, denouncing evil and injustice wherever it exists by lovingly ushering
in the good news that Christ reconciled the world to Himself.
gcu.edu/DoctrinalStatement
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