Time to be unleashed!

In the summer of 1998, I became the youth pastor at my father's church (New Song Church and Ministries).  I spent almost 20 years leading countless young people into a personal, intimate relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.  We saw a city wide revival that led to our youth ministry growing into over 200-300 teenagers a week attending our six weekly meetings.  It was an awesome time!  However, in the spring of 2019, my wife and I felt the call of the Lord to plant our own church (Unleashed Church).  And while we loved our church and saw God do many good things, we again felt the hand of the Lord moving us to Charlotte, North Carolina in the spring of 2022.  Upon arriving in the Charlotte area, we felt the call of the Lord to launch Unleashed Ministries to the nations!  

The 66 books of the Bible in the Old and New Testaments constitute the completed and inscripturated Word of God. God The Holy Spirit lead the human authors of Scripture so that they wrote the exact words that He desired them to write. The words in Scripture, penned by human authors, are thus the very words of God Himself. As inspired by God, the Bible is completely free from error and serves as the inerrant, infallible, and final rule for life and faith. The Bible speaks with complete authority about every matter it addresses.

God is eternal and infinite in all of his perfections. This One God exists eternally in three distinct fully divine persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God is the creator of all that exists. He made the heavens and the earth out of nothing. He exerts comprehensive sovereignty over all of His creation. He possesses exhaustive and perfect knowledge of all events past, present, and future. He is present everywhere at all times. He is infinitely good with no shadow of sin in any part of his being.

Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, the second member of the Trinity. He exists as one person with two distinct natures, fully divine, and fully human without any mixture of the two. He was born of a virgin. He lived his entire life on earth without transgressing the law of God, thus earning righteousness for his people. He suffered a violent death on the cross to pay for the sins of his people. He rose miraculously from the grave on the third day as Lord and Savior, demonstrating his victory over sin, death, and the devil. He ascended bodily into heaven where he reigns over all creation, and actively upholds and intercedes for his people as his bride, the church, awaits his glorious return.

The Holy Spirit is the eternal third member of the Trinity. He is the person who convicts of sin and who indwells Christians. He regenerates believers and empowers them to live the Christian life, to understand the Scriptures, and to worship Jesus Christ.

Justification is the sovereign declaration of God that the righteousness of Jesus Christ has been imputed to those who have trusted in his sinless obedience and his substitutionary atonement on the cross for their salvation. When God justifies a person, He no longer treats him as a sinner but reckons him to possess that righteousness which Jesus Christ earned on his behalf. The declaration of justification does not come through any past, present, or future merit in the sinner. Justification is based exclusively on the merits of Jesus Christ and is received through faith alone.