Spiritual partnership and close community among believers, sharing in faith and life together.

The ‘Good News’ that God saves sinners through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Unmerited favour from God, granting forgiveness and blessings that humans cannot earn on their own.

A belief or teaching that deviates from essential Christian truths.

The quality of being set apart for God’s purpose and moral purity.

The doctrine that the Son of God took on human flesh in the person of Jesus Christ.

God’s act of declaring a sinner righteous through faith in Jesus Christ.

A Greek term meaning ‘Word,’ used in John 1 to describe Jesus as the eternal Word of God.

Someone who suffers death or persecution for bearing witness to faith in Jesus Christ.

A Hebrew term meaning ‘Anointed One,’ the promised deliverer in the Old Testament, fulfilled in Jesus.