Discover Wawasee
If you’re interested in learning more about Wawasee Bible or pursuing Church Membership you’re in the right spot!
Attend a Discovery Class
Discovery Class is for anyone interested in knowing more about Wawasee Bible, and is the first step in pursuing Church Membership. We offer Discovery Class 3 or 4 times a year. It’s a 2-3 hour class that takes place around a meal with one of our pastors and others interested in learning more about Wawasee. At Discovery Class you’ll learn some of the history of Wawasee Bible, hear about our ministries, learn about our affiliation with the Evangelical Free Church of America, discover how to connect and more!
Statement of Faith Video/Audio
A second step in pursuing Church Membership is to watch or listen to the following teaching on our Statement of Faith and affirm you hold to the same. These sessions were taught as part of a series called “Grounded” at Wawasee Bible in the winter of 2022.
1. Concerning God
1. What We Believe Concerning God
In this session we cover the first article of our Statement of Faith: We believe in one God, Creator of all things, holy, infinitely perfect, and eternally existing in a loving unity of three equally divine Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Having limitless knowledge and sovereign power, God has graciously purposed from eternity to redeem a people for Himself and to make all things new for His own glory.
2. What We Believe Concerning the Bible
In this session we cover the second article of our Statement of Faith: We believe that God has spoken in the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, through the words of human authors. As the verbally inspired Word of God, the Bible is without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of His will for salvation, and the ultimate authority by which every realm of human knowledge and endeavor should be judged. Therefore, it is to be believed in all that it teaches, obeyed in all that it requires, and trusted in all that it promises.
2. Concerning the Bible
3. Concerning the Human Condition
3. What We Believe Concerning the Human Condition
In this session we cover the third article of our Statement of Faith: We believe that God created Adam and Eve in His image, but they sinned when tempted by Satan. In union with Adam, human beings are sinners by nature and by choice, alienated from God, and under His wrath. Only through God’s saving work in Jesus Christ can we be rescued, reconciled and renewed.
4. What We Believe Concerning Jesus Christ
In this session we cover the fourth article of our Statement of Faith: We believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate, fully God and fully man, one Person in two natures. Jesus-Israel’s promised Messiah-was conceived through the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He lived a sinless life, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father as our High Priest and Advocate.
4. Concerning Jesus Christ
5. Concerning the Work of Jesus Christ
5. What We Believe Concerning the Work of Jesus Christ
In this session we cover the fifth article of our Statement of Faith: We believe that Jesus Christ, as our representative and substitute, shed His blood on the cross as the perfect, all-sufficient sacrifice for our sins. His atoning death and victorious resurrection constitute the only ground for salvation.
6. What We Believe Concerning the Holy Spirit
In this session we cover the sixth article of our Statement of Faith: We believe that the Holy Spirit, in all that He does, glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ. He convicts the world of its guilt. He regenerates sinners, and in Him they are baptized into union with Christ and adopted as heirs in the family of God. He also indwells, illuminates, guides, equips and empowers believers for Christlike living and service.
6. Concerning the Holy Spirit
7. Concerning the Church
7. What We Believe Concerning the Church
In this session we cover the seventh article of our Statement of Faith: We believe that the true church comprises all who have been justified by God’s grace through faith alone in Christ alone. They are united by the Holy Spirit in the body of Christ, of which He is the Head. The true church is manifest in local churches, whose membership should be composed only of believers. The Lord Jesus mandated two ordinances, baptism and the Lord’s Supper, which visibly and tangibly express the gospel. Though they are not the means of salvation, when celebrated by the church in genuine faith, these ordinances confirm and nourish the believer.
8. What We Believe Concerning Christian Living
In this session we cover the eighth article of our Statement of Faith: We believe that God’s justifying grace must not be separated from His sanctifying power and purpose. God commands us to love Him supremely and others sacrificially, and to live out our faith with care for one another, compassion toward the poor and justice for the oppressed. With God’s Word, the Spirit’s power, and fervent prayer in Christ’s name, we are to combat the spiritual forces of evil. In obedience to Christ’s commission, we are to make disciples among all people, always bearing witness to the gospel in word and deed.
8. Concerning Christian Living
9. Concerning Christ's Return
9. What We Believe Concerning Christ’s Return
In this session we cover the ninth article of our Statement of Faith: We believe in the personal, bodily and glorious return of our Lord Jesus Christ. The coming of Christ, at a time known only to God, demands constant expectancy and, as our blessed hope, motivates the believer to godly living, sacrificial service and energetic mission.
10. What We Believe Concerning Response and Eternal Destiny
In this session we cover the tenth article of our Statement of Faith: We believe that God commands everyone everywhere to believe the gospel by turning to Him in repentance and receiving the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that God will raise the dead bodily and judge the world, assigning the unbeliever to condemnation and eternal conscious punishment and the believer to eternal blessedness and joy with the Lord in the new heaven and the new earth, to the praise of His glorious grace. Amen.
10. Concerning Response and Eternal Destiny
Wawasee Bible is a growing evangelical church located in north-central Indiana between the communities of Milford and Syracuse. We are sent to love people and invite them to follow Jesus with us.
Wawasee Bible is a part of the Evangelical Free Church of America.
The EFCA exists to glorify God by multiplying transformational churches among all people.
Learn more about the EFCA at www.efca.org.