Scripture
We receive the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the inspired, trustworthy, and sufficient word of God.
Coram Deo Durango
Beliefs
We belong to the classical Christian faith and confess the Triune God, the authority of Scripture, and the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Core Beliefs
Trinity
We worship one God in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, equal in glory and eternal in being.
Christ
We confess Jesus Christ as truly God and truly man, crucified for sinners, raised bodily, ascended, and reigning.
Salvation
Salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, bringing forgiveness and new life.
Church
The church is the people of God gathered by the gospel for worship and discipleship.
Creeds and confessional standards
We gladly affirm the church's historical doctrine.
Apostles’ CreedA foundational confession of the Triune God and the saving work of Christ.
I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.
He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead.
On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
Nicene CreedThe church's historic statement regarding the full deity of the Son and the Spirit.
We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, 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, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father.
Through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven, was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary, and was made man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures.
He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He shall come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom shall have no end.
And we 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 we believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.
Chalcedonian DefinitionThe church's statement that Jesus Christ is both fully divine and fully human.
Following the holy fathers, we all with one voice teach men to confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the same perfect in Godhead and also perfect in manhood; truly God and truly man.
He is of a reasonable soul and body; consubstantial with the Father according to the Godhead, and consubstantial with us according to the manhood; like us in all things except sin.
Before the ages he was begotten of the Father according to the Godhead, and in these latter days, for us and for our salvation, born of the Virgin Mary, the mother of God, according to the manhood.
One and the same Christ, Son, Lord, only-begotten, to be acknowledged in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation.
The distinction of natures being by no means taken away by the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved, and concurring in one person and one subsistence.