What We Believe

The following are the core beliefs of South Holly Church based on the foundational truths taught in the Bible. All of our teaching and ministry is rooted in and flows out of these biblical doctrines.

We believe in the one living and true God, eternally existing in perfect unity as three equally and fully divine Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:19–20)

We believe the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments to be the full record of God's self-disclosure to mankind. Scripture is fully trustworthy as our final and sufficient authority for all of life. (2 Timothy 3:16–17; 2 Peter 1:20–21)

We believe that God created mankind—male and female—in His own image and likeness, free of sin, to glorify Himself and enjoy His fellowship. All human beings are totally depraved by nature and by choice, alienated from God without defense or excuse, and subject to God's righteous wrath. (Genesis 3:1–6; Romans 3:10–19)

We believe that salvation is found in none other than Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ's death on the cross was the sole and complete payment for sins, fully satisfying God's righteous wrath, for each person that turns from sin in repentance and places their faith in Christ alone by grace alone. (Romans 8:37–39; 2 Corinthians 5:21)

We believe that marriage is created by God to be shared between one biological man and one biological woman, in a lifelong holy covenant. God designed sexual intimacy to be expressed and consummated only between a man and a woman when they are united as one flesh in marriage. (Genesis 1:27–28, 2:24; Matthew 19:4–6)

We believe that upon placing one's faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior, the believer is made part of the Body of Christ, the one universal Church, of which Jesus Christ is the Head. The Scriptures command believers to gather locally in order to devote themselves to worship, prayer, teaching of the Word, fellowship, the ordinances of baptism and communion, service, and outreach to the world. (Ephesians 1:22–23; Acts 2:42–46)

We believe it is the aim, duty, and privilege of every believer and local church fellowship to glorify God by responding as active participants in the Great Commission call of Jesus Christ to go and make disciples of all nations. (Matthew 28:19–20)

We believe in and expectantly await the glorious, visible, personal, return of the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the lost. The lost will be raised to judgment and experience eternal wrath in hell. The saved will be raised to eternal joy in the new heaven and new earth. (1 Thessalonians 4:13–18)