Statement from C.W.Warren (Dad, Grandpa Beautiful Man)

I will now state my religious beliefs. These also have come out of my experience rather than from the study of books on theology.

I believe in God the Father, perfect in wisdom, goodness and love as revealed in nature, history and in the souls of men.

I believe in Jesus Christ, the Son God, Saviour of the world, who lived and died, and rose again and lives for evermore.

I believe in the Holy Spirit who reveals Christ to us and comforts and inspires us.

I believe that sin is reality in human life and is an opposition to God, as well as injury to ourselves and to our fellow man.

I believe that Christianity is a religion of salvation, not merely a system of high moral teachings, that Christ died for the world. His live and death makes it possible for us to enter into a new life and to live according to the will of God.

I believe the Bible is the record of God’s progressive revelation to men. It shows how men have found God in the past and how we may find Him today.

I believe in the congregational, democratic form of church government the autonomy of the local church, and independence from ecclesiastical control, and in fellowship with other churches, with freedom and responsibility of the individual and the right of private judgment.

I believe the work of the Christian ministry offers the greatest opportunity for service in the world today. It presents a challenge and calls for courage of the highest order, a courage even greater than that manifested on the battlefield. The new world, born out of bloodshed and suffering, needs the gospel of the saving power of the Son of God. The principles of Jesus must be applied to all the relationships of life, individual, social, economic, and international. Only in this way can the Kingdom of God be realized on earth. It is for such a purpose that God calls men to the Christian ministry.

It is for such a crusade that I now volunteer.

Claude William Warren