At Hutto Community Church we believe the Bible is God's Word and the foundation of all that we do.
The Holy Bible was written by divinely inspired people and is God’s revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. Therefore, all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy.
There is one and only one living and true God. He is the creator and redeemer of the universe and mankind. God is infinite in holiness and all other perfections. To Him we owe the highest love, reverence, and obedience. God is triune in nature and reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.
God as Father reigns with providential care over His children. He is all powerful, all knowing, all loving, and all wise. God is Father in truth to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ. He is fatherly in His attitude toward all people.
Christ is the eternal Son of God. In His incarnation as Jesus Christ He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. Jesus perfectly revealed and did the will of God, taking upon Himself human nature with its demands and necessities and identifying Himself completely with mankind yet without sin. He honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and in His death on the cross He made provision for the redemption of mankind from sin. He was raised from the dead and appeared to His disciples after His crucifixion. He ascended into heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God where He is the One Mediator, fully God, fully man.
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God, fully divine. Through illumination He enables Christians to understand truth. He exalts Christ. He convicts people of sin, righteousness, and judgment. At the moment of salvation He baptizes every believer into the Body of Christ. He cultivates Christian character, comforts believers, and bestows the spiritual gifts by which they serve God through His church. He seals the believer unto the day of final redemption. His presence in the Christian is the guarantee that God will bring the believer into the fullness of the stature of Christ. He enlightens and empowers the believer and the church in worship, evangelism, and service.
Mankind is the special creation of God, made in His own image. He created them male and female as the crowning work of His creation. Through the temptation of Satan man disobeyed the command of God, and fell from his original innocence. Consequently mankind has developed a nature and an environment inclined toward sin. Only the grace of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, can bring man into fellowship with God and enable man to fulfill the creative purpose of God. Every person of every race possesses full dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.
Salvation is the redemption of sinners, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. Repentance is a genuine turning from sin toward God and the act of repentance combined with personal faith in Jesus Christ brings salvation and a covering of righteousness to all who believe. Salvation is available through Jesus’s sacrifice on the cross as an atonement for all sin.
A Christian church is an autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel; the church observes the two ordinances of Christ, governed by His laws, exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word, and seeking to share the gospel. Its scriptural officers are pastors and elders. Hutto Community Church operates under the leadership of the Board of Elders consisting of qualified men and women.
Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer’s faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Saviour, the believer’s death to sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus. It is a testimony to his faith in the final resurrection of the dead. The Lord’s Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members of the church, through partaking of the bread and wine or juice, memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.
According to His promise, Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth; the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell, the place of everlasting punishment. The righteous in their resurrected and glorified bodies will receive their reward and will dwell forever in Heaven with the Lord.
Every Christian has the duty and privilege of making disciples. Jesus commanded us to preach the gospel to all nations. We are to be on mission, telling and showing others who Jesus is.
God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human society. It is composed of persons related to one another by marriage, blood, or adoption. Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime. It is God’s unique gift to reveal the union between Christ and His church.
The gifts of the Holy Spirit that we see on display in the New Testament are still active within the life of the church. These gifts did not end with the close of the New Testament or the death of the last apostle.
