OSU Faculty/Staff Christian Fellowship Statement of Faith

Faculty Christian Fellowship
Statement of Faith

Faculty/Staff Christian Fellowship is comprised of OSU faculty and staff who are interested in challenging each other to think clearly and Christianly in the midst of a secular and diverse university. We seek the integration of faith with academic learning and life as we support each other in meeting the challenges of a pluralistic academic culture. It is also our desire to elevate the visibility of the Christian faculty/staff community at Oregon State University. Our membership is open to all faculty and staff employed at Oregon State University. The group was established in 1990.

We are a multi-denominational group that strives to follow Jesus Christ according to the Bible. We seek to witness to our common Christian faith, which, we believe, is summarized in the following statement:

We accept the Old and New Testaments as the written Word of God, infallible in all it teaches, and the only authoritative basis of Christian doctrine and practice.

We believe in one triune God, the Creator of all there is, who has existed from all eternity in three distinct persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and who alone deserves our worship and service.

We believe in Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Trinity, who has always existed, but who became incarnate in human form, was born of the virgin Mary, lived a sinless life as a man, died as our substitute and representative in order that we might be forgiven of our sins, rose again from the dead, sits at the right hand of God the Father, and will come again at the end of the age to judge all mankind.

We believe that all men and women have, by their sinful behavior, personally and willfully broken the relationship that God intended with them, and that salvation and reconciliation with God is possible only through faith in the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ and repentance of one's sins, which justify the sinner, redeem the sinner from eternal punishment, thereby effecting eternal fellowship with God.

We believe that the Christian life requires holiness of personal conduct, a special concern for and fellowship with other believers, a witness by word and deed to those around us of the saving work of Jesus Christ in our lives, and a concern to promote biblical standards of personal and corporate righteousness at every level of society.

To this end we ascribe glory and honor to God, whom we serve, and whose witness to all members of the community of Oregon State University we desire to be.

Faculty Christian Fellowship Statement of Faith

Faculty Christian Fellowship
Statement of Faith