Genesis Trust
The Genesis Trust is a registered non-profit and Public Benefit Organisation in Port Shepstone in the Ugu District of southern KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. It was founded in 2002 as an outreach programme of the Norwegian Settlers Church to serve people affected by HIV/AIDS and poverty. We do this through 5 community centres based in our local communities, including a 40 bed palliative Care Centre, Pre-school, Youth & Educational projects, Gyms, Vegetable Gardening, Music & Rugby academies, Vacation Bible Clubs, and Skills program's.
South Africa
Our mission is to demonstrate faith, love and hope to people in our community and to serve them holistically, meeting physical, psychosocial, emotional and spiritual needs associated with HIV/AIDS, poverty and other social issues.
Genesis Trust is the outreach program of the Norwegian Settlers Church, and this is our statement of faith which is integral to what we believe and do at the Genesis Trust :-http://www.nsc.za.org/statement-of-belief
We declare our adherence to the following crucial doctrines :
2.1 The Bible
We believe the Bible to be the complete Word of God; that its sixty-six books, as originally written, were verbally inspired by the Spirit of God and were entirely free from error, and that it is the final authority in all matters of faith and practice.
(2 Tim. 3: 16 17; 2 Peter 1: 21; John 20: 30; Ps. 119: 105)
2.2 The Triune God
We believe in one God existing in three divine Persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit co-existent, sovereign, eternal and co-equal in all their attributes and united in all they do.
(Deut. 6: 4; Matt. 28: 19: 2 Cor. 13: 14; 1 Peter 1: 2)
2.2.1 The Father
We believe in God the Father, the creator, governor and sustainer of the universe and the initiator of our redemption.
(Gen. 1: 1 2; Neh.9: 6; Ps.103: 19; Dan.4: 34 35; Jn.3: 16)
2.2.2 The Son
We believe in the absolute and essential deity of Jesus Christ, in His eternal existence with the Father in the pre-incarnate glory, in His virgin birth, true humanity, sinless life, substitutionary death, bodily resurrection, triumphant ascension, mediatorial ministry and personal return.
(Jn.1: 12 14; Rom.3: 21 26; 8: 34; 1 Cor.15: 1 19; Acts 1: 9 11)
2.2.3 The Holy Spirit
We believe in the absolute and essential deity and personality of the Holy Spirit, His illuminating, convicting, regenerating, sanctifying, empowering and comforting work and His abiding presence in the believer whom He constantly refers to Christ.
(2 Cor.3: 17; Jn.3: 5; 15: 26; 16: 8; 13 14; Acts 1: 8; Rom.8: 9)
2.3 Satan
We believe that Satan is an evil personality, the originator of sin, the arch-enemy of God, the great deceiver of man, but also is a defeated foe whose destiny is eternal punishment.
(Gen.3: 1 7; 2 Cor. 4: 4; 1 Pet.5: 8; Rev.20: 10)
2.4 Man
We believe that man was created in the image of God, but that he sinned by disobedience, becoming guilty before God and depraved in all areas of his life, thereby incurring physical and spiritual death.
(Gen.1: 26 27; Rom.3: 10 23; 6: 23)
2.5 Salvation
We believe that salvation is a free gift of God given by His grace, only to those who exercise repentance from sin and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, being born again by the Holy Spirit, thereby receiving eternal life, and becoming children of God who are pre-destined to be conformed to the image of Christ.
(Eph.2: 8 9; Jn.1: 12; Rom.8:29)
2.6 Christian Living
We believe that all Christians are called to pursue a life of holiness through separation to God, purification from moral evil and transformation into Christs likeness by the enabling of the Holy Spirit.
(1 Cor.1: 2; 1 Pet.1: 14 16; Col.3: 5 9; 2 Cor.3: 18; 1 Pet.1: 2)
2.7 The Church
We believe that the universal Church includes all who have been regenerated by God as they have responded in repentance and faith to the Lord Jesus, and involves local churches, consisting of believers who exemplify God, edify one another and evangelise the world by gathering together to be discipled and by dispersing to minister the gospel to others.
(Acts 2: 41 47; Eph. 4: 1 16)
2.8 Ordinances
We believe in the ordinances of Baptism and the Lords Supper as being instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ. Baptism is a confession of faith in Christ, and does not convey regenerating grace (Matt. 28: 19). The Lords Supper symbolizes His sacrificial death and therefore, it is not a provision for sin, nor does it involve any changes in the substance of the bread and wine.
(Lk.22: 17 20; 1 Cor. 11: 17 34)
2.9 Missions
We believe that missions is the process whereby God plants and perfects propagating churches amongst the peoples of the world, and that it is our crucial responsibility to promote and participate in evangelizing the lost, discipling believers and establishing new churches worldwide.
(Matt. 16: 18; 28: 16 20; Acts 1: 8)
2.10 The Future
We believe in the personal, bodily and glorious return of the Lord Jesus Christ; in the resurrection of the just and unjust; in the eternal blessedness of the redeemed and in the judgment and conscious eternal punishment of the unredeemed.
(1 Thess.4: 16 17; Matt.5: 46; Jn.5: 28 -29)
2.11 Marriage
We believe that God has sanctioned marriage between a man and a woman, therefore we believe in heterosexual relationships between a natural man and a natural woman within the confines of lawful matrimony. Adherence to this stated principle of sexual behaviour is an inherent requirement for membership with the Norwegian Settlers Church.
