We call our membership Believing and Belonging. Years ago we felt that if we could teach people what we believe they could feel that they would want to belong to it and make it theirs.
In the course we teach the following believes and dreams plus our God given purpose and responsibilities. I personally feel it is a great course and it always excites me when new believers want to expand their vision and start reaching out to others. This is the real test of our faith, do we want to tell others.
Condensed into twelve points is our statement of faith. They are simple yet dynamic. This is what we believe…
1. The Bible is God’s complete, inspired Word, which does not change.
II Tim 3v15-17; Mk 13v31; Is 40v8
2. There is one true God revealed as three persons; God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
Ex 20v1-5; Is 45v5; Mk 12v29; I Jn 5v7; Jn 14v26
3. God created the heavens and the earth and everything in them.
Gen 1v1&31; Jn 1v1-3; Col 1v16-17
4. The virgin birth and sinless life of Jesus Christ. His atoning death, burial, resurrection and ascension into heaven.
Mt 1v23; II Cor 5v21; I Pet 2v22; I Cor 15v3-4; Eph 1v20
5. Everyone who repents and believes in the Son is born again, cleansed by Jesus’ blood and brought into a personal relationship with God.
Rom 3v23; I Jn 1v9; Jn 3v5-7; Rom 10v9-10; Gal 4v6-7
6. The sacraments of water baptism of believers by total immersion and the Lord’s Supper.
Mt 28v19; Acts 2v38; Rom 6v4-11; Col 2v11-12; I Cor 11v23-31; Acts 20v7
7. It is God’s will for believers to live clean, separated and Holy lives, being changed into the likeness of the Son by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Eph 1v4; I Pet 1v16; Eph 5v27; Rom 8v29
8. The baptism and fullness of the Holy Spirit with signs following.
Mt 3v11; Acts 2v4; Acts 4v31; Eph 5v18
9. The fruit and the gifts of the Holy Spirit demonstrated in the lives of believers.
Gal 5v22-23; I Cor 12v4-11
10. The fivefold Ascension ministries in the body of Christ for bringing believers to maturity. Eph 4v11-12
11. The Lordship of Christ and His coming again to judge the living and the dead.
Phil 2v9-11; Acts 1v11; I Thes 4v16-17
12. Those who accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Master will spend eternity in Heaven with God, those who reject Him will spend eternity in Hell with the Devil and his wicked angels.
Jn 5v24,28-29; Jn 14v1-3; Rev 20v11-15
