What We Believe
The Bible
We believe that the Bible is authoritative and is a credible and trustworthy book. It is a different book in the sense that we believe that the human authors were guided along by the Holy Spirit and that the words found in the pages of the Bible are God-breathed and is the Word of God.
About God
We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in the Persons of the Holy Trinity – Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God himself is relationship defined. God is always looking, in a sense to broaden the circle of relationship. We have an instinctive desire to relate, because we were made in his image and he is always relating with the three person of the Godhead. Community finds its origin in God.
Apostles Creed
“I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: and in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from where he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit; the holy Christian church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting.” This is our hope, this is our message.
Our Lord Jesus Christ
We believe in the virgin birth of the Lord Jesus Christ, His deity, His sinless humanity and perfect life, the eternal all-sufficiency of His atoning death, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the Father’s right hand, and His personal coming again at His second advent. We believe that justification is a judicial act of God on the believer’s behalf, based entirely on the merits of Christ. We believe that people are made spiritually alive by the power of the Holy Spirit as we place our saving faith in Jesus. Salvation is a free gift of God (grace) and we add nothing to his saving work accept to receive with a heart of gratitude. The rest of our lives looks different because of our deeply rooted gratitude for the one who rescued us and paid the penalty of our sin.
Baptism of the Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit is present today advancing good and restraining evil. We affirm that the Holy Spirit gives himself to every follower of Christ and disperses his gifts along with his presence to those who choose to follow Jesus. We believe that he empowers his people for service and to be witnesses through the Baptism in the Holy Spirit as described in Acts 2.
Water Baptism
We believe in Christ’s leadership of the Church, the celebration of Christian baptism by immersion for believers and the regular observation of our Lord’s Last Supper – Holy Communion.
Eternal Life
We believe in life beyond this world which is described in the Bible as paradise or heaven. We also believe in a place of eternal death described in the Bible as hell. Our purpose is to pray, plan and program so that a piece of heaven will become more real on earth and that people would be adequately prepared to enter our Lord’s heaven and avoid a life of separation from the absolute source of goodness and love.
