WHO WE ARE

Via de Cristo is a Christian movement that meets men and women wherever they are in their walk with Christ, strengthening and renewing their faith through a deeper relationship with Jesus. Through a three-day course in Christianity and a continuing community of encouragement and discipleship, we equip believers to become servant leaders who live out and share their faith authentically wherever God is calling them.

 

Via de Cristo is not a church and does not promote a new form of spirituality. Rather, its mission is to assist churches in developing and nurturing Christian leaders by providing opportunities for believers to examine their faith, experience and model a grace-filled life, and reflect Christ as the light of the world. Following their Via de Cristo weekend, leaders are sent back to their families, congregations, and workplaces, equipped to serve and encourage others in their faith.

 

MISSION STATEMENT

To assist Christian churches in developing and nurturing Christian leaders.

 

STATEMENT OF FAITH

What We Believe About God’s Word

We believe in the entirety of the Holy Bible, God’s unchanging written Word, contained within the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments. We believe it was God-breathed and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, written without error, and the final authority on all matters on which it speaks. (2 Timothy 3:16-17, 2 Peter 1:21, John 10:35)

 

What We Believe About God

We believe in the one true God, eternally existing in three persons — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (John 8:58)

 

What We Believe About Jesus

We believe Jesus Christ is God, the living Word, who became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth. He lived a sinless life and voluntarily atoned for the world’s sins through His crucifixion. On the 3rd day, He rose from the dead, ascended into Heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God, where He continually makes intercession for His people. He will come again to the earth, to consummate the eternal plan of God (Isaiah 7:14, John 1:1, 14, Romans 4:25, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Titus 2:13) 

  

What We Believe About the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit was sent to believers as a gift to glorify Christ, convict us of sin, draw us to the Savior, give us a new identity, and seals us for redemption (Acts 2:38, John 16:8, 1 Corinthians 6:11, Romans 5:5, 8:9, Ephesians 1:13-14) 

 

What We Believe About Salvation

We believe we are saved by grace. Salvation is wholly a work of God’s free grace and not of works or goodness. Those who are born of the Holy Spirit and receive Jesus Christ become heirs of eternal life (Romans 4:25, 2 Corinthians 5:21, John 14:6, Ephesians 2:1-5, 8-10, Romans 10:9-10) 

 

What We Believe About God’s Calling For Our Lives

God pours out freely His grace upon all of humanity. In turn, we are to share the message of God’s grace with the world so that they may come to accept this gift. We are chosen to be anointed by the Holy Spirit to bear fruit for God’s glory. We are called to live a life of piety, to study God’s Word, and then to go out, through our apostolic action, to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ, making disciples of all nations. (Matthew 28:18-20)