Rev. Paul Stark
Through almost 30 years in the pastorate, Paul has served churches in California, Missouri, and Georgia. Teaching and encouraging God's people as his life's calling is something for which he remains exceedingly grateful, and since 2007, EDiBS has served as the online home of his teaching ministry.
Our Beliefs
GOD
We believe the only true God is the triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, three distinct persons in one divine being (the Holy Trinity).
HUMANITY
We believe God created the first man and woman, Adam and Eve, in His own image. This image was lost when they disobeyed God and fell into sin. Sin has brought guilt and condemnation to all people.
THE BIBLE
We believe the Bible to be the inspired, inerrant, and infallible Word of God; the sole norm, rule, and authority for Christian faith and life. We further believe that Jesus Christ is the heart and center of Scripture and therefore the key to its true meaning.
CONVERSION
We believe all people are, by nature, spiritually blind and dead and therefore cannot by their own reason or strength believe in Jesus Christ as Lord or come to Him. Instead, the Holy Spirit calls us to faith by the Gospel. God the Holy Spirit earnestly wants to convert all people and bring them to salvation. However, many reject the Word and resist the Holy Spirit and therefore they remain in unbelief and under God's judgment by their own fault.
THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
We believe the Holy Spirit, by faith, works a renewal of our whole life-in spirit, will, attitude, and desires-so that we now strive to overcome sin and do good works.
END TIMES
We believe Christ will return visibly and with great glory on the Last Day to judge the world. Unbelievers will rise to shame and torment in hell forever. Believers will rise with glorified bodies and enter everlasting life in heaven with God.