What We Believe

The Affiliated Members of the CCTB have come together for the purpose of training men and women for service in the Church in Bangladesh. These organizations represent a variety of theological traditions, yet are united in the task of assisting the Church in this country to proclaim to all people the good news of the salvation brought by God and Lord Jesus Christ, and to maintain the faith of the Church in the true, eternal, sovereign and merciful God, perfect in unity, existing internally as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

We believe we can only do this as we acknowledge the authority of the Holy Spirit and seek His guidance to lead us into His truth and to empower us to live in His light and do His work.

We acknowledge our particular responsibility to the people of Bangladesh, for we believe that it is in Christ alone that they and all people can be brought to salvation. He is the culmination and perfection of God’s revelation to mankind and through His divine nature, His incarnation as true man, His perfect life, sacrificial death on the Cross of Calvary, His bodily resurrection, ascension, eternal priesthood and reign. He is the only Savior. He alone can restore fallen people to their full stature and dignity, showing forth the image of God in which they were created, and freeing them from condemnation and power of sin to which they are otherwise enslaved.

We believe that thus transformed, we are called to be the “salt and the light” of human society, but that our final hope in not of this world, but in Christ’s final judgment and the eternal inheritance kept by Christ for His people.

We acknowledge the particular need of the constant and diligent study of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. We accept their supreme authority as the rule of faith and as containing all that is necessary for salvation, recognizing that the Scripture once given, needs to be continually interpreted and applied to our present situation.

The Church is by definition the Body of Christ, Christ being the Head. Apart from this the College does not insist on any definition of the form of the church, nut we all accept the character of our nature and vocation as ~a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to declare the wonderful deeds of Him who called us out of darkness into His marvelous light”.

We believe that God gives individuals spiritual gifts for leadership and service for the Church, and that the College has a particular calling to assist in the training and development of these gifts.