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Young Life - Young Life's Statement of Faith

Preamble All those who participate in the ongoing work and witness of the Campaign shall be in sympathy with all its central purpose of proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ. In order to qualify for office, members of the Board of Directors and members of the regular and colunteer staff and professors at the Young Life institute shall subscribe to the following articles of faith:

Article I

• Position of the Scriptures - The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, being given by divine inspiration, are the Word of God, the final and supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct.

Article II

• Doctrine of the Trinity - In the Scriptures, God reveals Himself as the living and true God, Creator of all things. Perfect in love and righteous in all His ways, this one God exists eternally as a Trinity of Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Article III

• Doctrine Concerning Man - God made man in His image that he might have fellowship with Him. Being estranged from God by his disobedience, sinful man is incapable of a right relationship to God apart from His divine grace.

Aticle IV

• Doctrine in Christology - The only Mediator between God and man is Jesus Christ our Lord, God's eternal Son, who as a man fully shared and fulfilled out humanity in a life of perfect obidience.

Article V

• Doctrine of the Work of Christ - By His death in our place, Jesus revealed the divine love and upheld divine justice, removing our guilt and reconciling us to God. Having risen bodily from he dead and ascended into heaven, He rules as Lord over all and intercedes for us as our great High Priest.

Article VI

• Doctrine of the Holy Spirit - The Holy Spirit, through the proclimation of the Gospel, renews our hearts, persuading us to repent of our sins and confess Jesus as Lord. By the same Spirit we are led to trust in divine mercy, whereby we are forgiven all our sins, justified by faith through the merit of Christ our Savior, adopted into God's family as His children and enabled so to live in the world that men may see our good works and glorify our Father who is in heaven.

Article VII

• Doctrine of the Church - God, by His Word and Spirit, calls sinful men into the fellowship of Christ's body. Thus, He creates the one holy, catholic and apostolic Church, united in the bonds of love, endowed with the gifts of the Spirit and summoned by Christ to preach the Gospel and to administer the sacraments, to relieve human need and to stirve for social justice.

Article VIII

• Doctrine of Eschatology - God's redemptive purpose will be consummated by the return of Christ to raise the dead, judge all men and establish His glorious kingdom. Those who are apart from Christ shall be eternally separated from God's presence, but the righteous shall live and reign with Him forever.

(this information is taken form the Young Life Leader Training Manual as of 2005)

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