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STATEMENT OF FAITH

Warner Press is governed by a board of directors and is staff led. Together we embrace and are in alignment with the following Statement of Faith, which is grounded in our Wesleyan-Holiness theological roots in the General Assembly of the Church of God in the United States and Canada (with general offices in Anderson, Indiana). The Statement expresses our foundational beliefs, and serves as the guide for our existence, mission, goals, and publishing efforts:

  1. The Trinity. We believe God, Who created all things visible and invisible and out of chaos created order, exists in three Persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We believe God the Father continues to sustain all that He has created, that He is infinite in righteousness and love, that He is perfect in judgments and unchanging in mercy, and that He desires an eternal relationship with all human beings. We believe God is fully revealed in the Lord Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God, Who was born to the Virgin Mary through the agency of the Holy Spirit and lived on earth as both fully human and fully divine. We believe the Holy Spirit leads us into all truth, convicts us of sin, leads us to and incorporates us into Christ, and empowers us for Christian witness. (Genesis 1:1; Matthew 1:23; 28:19; John 10:30)
  2. Sin and Salvation. We believe all people have sinned, thus breaking our relationships with God, self, others, and the whole created order. We believe that, through His exemplary life, sacrificial death, and bodily resurrection, Jesus Christ is the only sufficient atonement for our sins. We believe Jesus died on a cross and was raised from the dead for our salvation and the restoration of our broken relationship with God. We believe Jesus returned to the Father following His resurrection from the dead, and that there He intercedes for us. We believe God’s work of salvation is all by grace, not by our merits. We believe we receive this great salvation when, by the convicting power of the Holy Spirit, we repent of our sin and trust in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. We believe our salvation is secure so long as we remain faithful to Christ. We believe the same power that raised Jesus from the dead raises us from spiritual death, saving us from sin to follow Him in this life and live with Him eternally. (John 1:12; 11:25; Romans 3:23; 5:8; 6:23; 10:9; 1 Corinthians 15:3–4; Ephesians 1:7; 2:8–9)
  3. The Bible. We believe the sixty-six books of the Protestant biblical canon constitute the Holy Scriptures, the infallible written Word of God, that both the Old and New Testaments are necessary for understanding God’s revelation, and that they are to be interpreted in light of the revelation given to us in Jesus Christ. We believe the Bible is inspired by God, that it is fully authoritative and sufficient for Christian life and practice, that it is historically reliable, and that its message is faithfully preserved in the textual tradition. (Psalm 119:105; Jeremiah 30:2; 1 Corinthians 2:13; 2 Timothy 3:16–17; 2 Peter 1:21; Revelation 21:5)
  4. Holiness. We believe God poured out the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. We believe the evidence of this outpouring is the personal holiness of God’s people and their empowerment for divine mission in the world. We believe every woman and man who has experienced salvation may be also sanctified by the Holy Spirit and supernaturally empowered to accomplish this mission. We believe the Holy Spirit empowers us to pursue holiness, resist sin, and bring God’s kingdom to life in ways we otherwise could not, when we are fully surrendered to the Spirit. We believe it is God’s will for us to live in holiness, that it is God who makes us holy, and that we are called to present ourselves as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to God. We believe the life of holiness requires wholehearted love for God and neighbor. We believe Satan and demons exist as spiritual realities in opposition to God, but God has conquered all sin and evil, thereby giving us victory both now and forever. (Jeremiah 31:31–34; Ezekiel 36:25–27; Matthew 3:11–12; Luke 4:14–21; John 14:15–23; Acts 1:5; 2:1–4; 15:8–9; Romans 6:11–13; 8:1–4, 8–14, 17; 12:1–2; 2 Corinthians 1:5; Galatians 2:20; 5:16–25; Ephesians 5:17–18; Philippians 3:10–15; 1 Thessalonians 5:23–24; 1 Peter 4:1–2; 1 John 1:7, 9)
  5. Imago Dei. We believe all human beings are created in the image of God and that this unique relationship impacts how we worship Him and how we relate to other people and His creation. We believe all human life is sacred, created by God in His image, and of inestimable worth in all its dimensions, from conception until physical death. We believe human sexuality reflects God’s image in terms of intimate love, communication, fellowship, subordination of the self to the larger whole, and fulfillment. We believe the Bible uses the marriage relationship as the supreme metaphor for God’s relationship with His covenant people, one God with one people. We believe God honors a sexual union only within marriage and that the Scriptures define marriage as a lifelong monogamous commitment between one man and one woman. (Genesis 1:26–27; 2:18–25; Matthew 5:16; 15:18–20; 19:4–6; Luke 1:41; 1 Corinthians 6:9–10, 18; 7:2–5; Ephesians 5:31–32; 1 Thessalonians 5:22; Hebrews 13:4)
  6. The Kingdom of God. We believe we experience the kingdom or reign of God as the presence, love, and power of God in our lives, in the church, in history, and in the whole created order, and that Jesus lived and proclaimed the reign of God through a life of reconciliation and peacemaking. Under God’s reign, we believe we are to proclaim the gospel as we pursue justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with him. We believe the church is the fellowship of all the redeemed, the body of Christ, chosen by God for mission in the world. We believe followers of Christ are baptized by immersion as a sign of death to sin, resurrection to new life in Him, and incorporation into the mission of the people of God. We believe the Lord’s Supper (Communion) is celebrated as participation in and proclamation of the death and resurrection of Christ until He comes, that believers wash each other’s feet (following the example of Jesus who assumed the role of servant by washing the feet of His disciples), and in anointing with oil in the name of the Lord with prayer that people may be healed. We believe parents who are followers of Christ acknowledge the God-given gift of family relationships by dedicating their young children to God. We believe it is the church’s responsibility to recognize the Spirit’s calling and appointment of both gifted women and men to pastoral and other spiritual offices of the church, for building up the body of Christ. We believe that, in the course of time, God chose Israel to bless the world, but it was ultimately through Jesus Christ whom God brought salvation for all people. We believe God has chosen the church to be the body of Christ, making disciples who walk in the Way and Name of Jesus, bringing the Kingdom to life here on earth as it is in heaven. We believe in the second coming of Christ and that there will be a future consummation of the reign of God at this one and only return of our Lord, Who will then carry out final judgment. (Genesis 12:1–3; 1 Samuel 1:21–28; Isaiah 10:1–2; Jeremiah 31:33; Joel 2:28–29; Micah 6:8; Matthew 8:11; 10:7; 16:24; 19:13–15; 28:19–20; Luke 22:17–20; John 13:1–17; 20:21–23; Acts 1:7–8, 11; 2:42–47; 6:1–2; Romans 10:9–15; 12:1–8; Galatians 5:13–14; Ephesians 4:1–17; 1 Thessalonians 4:13–17; 1 Timothy 4:13; James 5:14–15; 1 Peter 4:10–11; Revelation 5:9–10; 19:11)
  7. Unity. We believe unity is a means for revealing the nature of God, the transformed life in the Kingdom, and our deep commitment to the mission of reaching the lost. We believe followers of Christ are to strive for unity with other believers, in the Spirit’s power. We believe all who repent and confess Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and Lord are part of the church of God and are to seek mutually enriching fellowship with everyone who shares this personal faith, and that the names and distinctions of church denominations, groups, and individual congregations are secondary to our oneness in the Lord. We believe followers of Christ should be aware of racial, cultural, and other diversity around the globe and be committed to working for the visible unity of the one church that is rooted in biblical faith. (John 17:20–23; Acts 2:47; 4:32; 1 Corinthians 1:10; Philippians 2:2)