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Beliefs

The Lord Jesus Christ

We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of God.  We believe in His substitutionary death for all men, His resurrection, and His eventual return to judge the world.

Salvation

We believe all men are born with a sinful nature and that the work of the Cross was to redeem man from the power of sin.  We believe that this salvation is available to all who will receive it.

The Holy Spirit


We believe in the existence of the Holy Spirit as the third person of the Trinity and in His interaction with man.  We believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit as manifested by the fruit and the gifts of the Spirit.

The Word of God

We believe in the scripture as the inspired Word of God and that it is the complete revelation of God's will for mankind.  We believe in the absolute authority of the scripture to govern the affairs of men

The Church


We believe in the Church as the eternal and universal Body of Christ consisting of all those who have accepted the work of the atonement. We believe in the need for a local assembly of believers for the purpose of evangelism and edification.

Prayer and Praise


We believe in the worship of the Lord through singing, clapping, and the lifting of hands. We believe in the authority of the believer to ask freely of the Lord for his needs.

Body Ministry


We believe in the ministry of the Holy Spirit to the Church body through the anointing of oil by the elders of the church.

Evangelism

We believe that evangelism is the obligation of every follower of Jesus Christ. The Lord commands us to go out and make disciples of all the earth. We believe that each person is first responsible to evangelism in their own family as the Holy Spirit leads them and gives them the ability.

Water Baptism

 

We believe in the ordinance of water baptism by immersion in obedience to the Word of God. All those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their personal savior should be baptized in water as a public profession of their faith in Christ and to experience what the Bible calls the "circumcision of the Spirit."

The Priesthood of the Believer


We believe that every believer has a unique relationship to the Lord. As His children, every Christian has immediate access to the throne of Grace and the ability to manifest the power of the Lord Jesus Christ in ministry 

 

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The Trinity as Foundation of our Concept of God

The Trinity is not about the number 3. It most specifically isn't about trying to believe that 3 = 1.

The Trinity results from the following question: If (as Christians believe) Jesus shows us what God is like, what kind of God does he show us?

So what the Trinity says is that God is both Father and Son. This doesn't make him two Gods: these are two separate ways in which God experiences love, two roles or two "modes of being".

Because the Bible speaks equally of the Holy Spirit as God's way of being present with us, the Holy Spirit is included in the Trinity, representing the presence of the Father with the Son and with us. God's presence is always personal, so it is best expressed as a person in the Trinity, rather than simply as something impersonal like "God's power." (Contrast the personal presence of the Holy Spirit with a concept like "the Force", which is essentially impersonal.)

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

The Trinity deals with the relationship among the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Be aware that the term Son is used in several different ways in Christian theology. When we're talking about the Trinity, the term "Son" refers to the eternal Logos, God's creative power, not primarily to Jesus as a human being. (Of course it's impossible to completely separate them.)

Jesus and early Christians often referred to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This terminology is used both in the Bible and in other early Christian writings. At a minimum, they can be understood as referring to different ways in which God works. The Father typically refers to God's role as creator and father. The Logos refers to God's word, his creative power. The Holy Spirit refers to God's presence with us and the rest of his creation.

God praying to himself?

"The Bible shows Jesus praying to God. If Jesus is God, that would mean that God was praying to himself."

But Christ is God incarnate, i.e. God and man. Christ prayed to his Father because he is a human being, and the way humans communicate with God is by prayer. The second person of the Trinity is the Son of God, his "Word" or Logos. To speak in this way of God as Son and Father is at once to imply a movement of mutual love, such as we indicated earlier. It is to imply that from all eternity God himself, as Son, in filial obedience and love renders back to God the Father the being which the Father by paternal self-giving eternally generates in him.

What do we mean by Son?

When we're talking about God, the term "Son" is somewhat metaphorical. This shouldn't be a surprise. God is rather different from human beings. When we use human language in talking about him, we're always straining the limits of language. The relationship between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is part of what God is. Father and Son aren't exactly separate people in the usual sense. They are equally eternal, because they are both essential to God's being what he is. You can't have a Father without a Son. The term "Son" is used because the relationship between Father and Son in the Trinity has close analogies to the relationship among human fathers and sons. Indeed the human relationship is modeled after God's

 

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What is Christian love?

Jesus' teachings are largely a description of what love means. However the briefest description is from one of Paul's letters:

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love is based on our status as fellow children of God. This means that there is at least potentially a close spiritual bond between all of us. It is a reflection of the fact that God loves us, and is an expression of Christ's love active in us.

It is also based on honesty and justice. While Christians are eager to forgive, Christian parents are called on to exercise discipline, and Christian churches to first counsel with and then if necessary exclude those who are openly immoral. These requirements call for a balance that it is often hard to achieve.

Forgiveness

One of the strongest themes in Jesus' teaching is forgiveness. He certainly intends us to forgive each other as individuals. But he was often speaking of the community. Jesus spent much of his time with these people, reassuring them of God's love.Jesus seems to have accomplished what most of us find nearly impossible: He seems to have accepted everyone on their own terms, but also inspired people to change their lives for the better, without appearing to be judgemental in the process.

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“I, even I, am the Lord;

And there is no saviour beside Me.

“It is I who have declared and saved and proclaimed,

And there was no strange god among you;”

Isaiah 43:11-12