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As a ministry of World Impact, TUMI unequivocally endorses the following doctrinal statement of the orthodox faith.
 There is one living and true God, infinitely perfect in
glory, wisdom, holiness, justice, power and love, one in His essence
but eternally existing in three persons: God the Father, God the Son
and God the Holy Spirit. God sovereignly created the world out of
nothing, so that His creation, while wholly dependent upon Him, neither
comprises part of God, nor conditions His essential perfection.
- The
books which form the canon of the Old and New Testaments are verbally
inspired by God, inerrant in the original writings, the only infallible
rule of faith and practice.
- God created man in His own
image, in a state of original righteousness, from which man
subsequently fell by a voluntary revolt, and consequently is guilty,
inherently corrupt and subject to divine wrath.
- Jesus
Christ, the eternal Son, became man without ceasing to be God by
uniting to His divine nature a true human nature in His incarnation,
and so continues to be both God and man, in two distinct natures and
one person, forever. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the
virgin Mary, exhibited His deity by manifold miracles, fulfilled the
requirements of the Law by His sinless life, shed His blood as a
vicarious and propitiatory atonement for man's sin, was resurrected
from the dead in the same body, now glorified. He ascended into heaven
and now intercedes in glory for His redeemed as our great high priest
and advocate, and as the Head of the Church and Lord of the individual
believer.
- The Holy Spirit convicts the world of sin,
righteousness and judgment, through the ministry of regeneration and
sanctification applies salvation and places believers into the Church,
guides and comforts God's children, indwells, directs, gifts and
empowers the Church in godly living and service in order to fulfill the
Great Commission, and seals and keeps the believer until Christ
returns.
- Every man, regardless of race or rank, who
receives the Lord Jesus Christ by faith is born into the family of God
and receives eternal life. This occurs solely because of the grace of
God and has no ground in human merit.
 The Holy Church is the
one institution specifically ordained of God to function in the
furthering of the Kingdom until Christ comes again. It consists of all
those regenerated by the Spirit of God, in mystical union and communion
both with Christ, the head of the Body, and with fellow-believers.
Neighborhood congregations are the local manifestation of the
Church universal. In obedience to the command of Christ, these
congregations preach the word of God, equip God's people for the work
of ministry, and administer the Lord's Supper and Baptism.
- The
Lord Jesus Christ will return bodily, visibly and personally to receive
His own, to conform believers to His own image and to establish His
millennial kingdom. He will judge the quick and the dead and will
effect a final separation of the redeemed and the lost, assigning
unbelievers to eternal punishment and believers to eternal glory,
enjoying conscious fellowship with Him.
- Man's chief end in life is to honor and glorify Almighty God. Personal salvation is a means to this end.
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