Our Statement of Faith:
1. THE SCRIPTURES INSPIRED
The Scriptures, both the Old and New Testaments, are verbally inspired
of God and are the revelation of God to man, the infallible,
authoritative rule of faith and conduct.
2. THE ONE TRUE GOD
The one true God has revealed Himself as the eternally self-existent “I
AM,” the Creator of heaven and earth and the Redeemer of mankind. He has
further revealed Himself as embodying the principles of relationship
and association as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
3. THE DEITY OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
His Virgin Birth
His Sinless Life
His Miracles
His Substitutionary work on the Cross
His bodily resurrection from the dead
His exaltation to the right hand of God
4. THE FALL OF MAN
Man was created good and upright; for God said, “Let us make man in our
own image, after our likeness.” However, man by voluntary transgression
fell and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual
death, which is separation from God.
5. THE SALVATION OF MAN
Man’s only hope of redemption is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ the Son of God.
Conditions to Salvation
Salvation is received through repentance toward God and faith toward
the Lord Jesus Christ. By the washing of regeneration and renewing of
the Holy Spirit, being justified by grace through faith, man becomes an
heir of God, according to the hope of eternal life.
6. THE ORDINANCES OF THE CHURCH
Baptism in Water
The ordinance of baptism by immersion is commanded by the Scriptures.
All who repent and believe on Christ as Saviour and Lord are to be
baptized. Thus they declare to the world that they have died with Christ
and that they also have been raised with Him to walk in newness of
life.
Holy Communion
The Lord’s Supper, consisting of the elements –bread and the fruit
of the vine– is the symbol expressing our sharing the divine nature of
our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Peter 1:4 [KJV/NIV]), a memorial of his suffering and death (1 Corinthians 11:26 [KJV/NIV]), and a prophecy of His second coming (1 Corinthians 11:26 [KJV/NIV]), and is enjoined on all believers “till He come!”
7. THE BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT
All believers are entitled to and should ardently expect and earnestly seek the promise of the Father, the baptism in the Holy Spirit and fire, according to the command of our Lord Jesus Christ. This was the normal experience of all in the early Christian Church. With it comes the enduement of power for life and service, the bestowment of the gifts and their uses in the work of the ministry.
8. THE INITIAL PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF THE BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT
The baptism of believers in the Holy Spirit is witnessed by the
initial physical sign of speaking with other tongues as the Spirit of
God gives them utterance.
9. SANCTIFICATION
Sanctification is an act of separation from that which is evil, and of dedication unto God. The Scriptures teach a life of “holiness without which no man shall see the Lord.” By the power of the Holy Spirit we are able to obey the command: “Be ye holy, for I am holy.”
Sanctification is realized in the believer by recognizing his
identification with Christ in His death and resurrection, and by the
faith reckoning daily upon the fact of that union, and by offering every
faculty continually to the dominion of the Holy Spirit.
10. THE CHURCH AND ITS MISSION
Since God’s purpose concerning man is to seek and to save that which is
lost, to be worshipped by man, to build a body of believers in the image
of His Son, and to demonstrate His love and compassion for all the
world, the priority reason for being part of
the Church is to be an agency of God for evangelizing the World, to be a corporate body in which Man may worship God, to be a channel of God’s purpose to build a body of saints being perfected in the image of His Son and to be a people who demonstrate God’s love and compassion for all the world.
11. THE MINISTRY
A divinely called and scripturally ordained ministry has been
provided by our Lord for the fourfold purpose of leading the Church in Evangelization of the world, worship of God, building a body of saints being perfected in the image of His son and meeting human need with ministries of love and compassion.
12. DIVINE HEALING
Divine healing is an integral part of the gospel. Deliverance from
sickness is provided for in the atonement, and is the privilege of all
believers.
13. THE BLESSED HOPE
The resurrection of those who have fallen asleep in Christ and their
translation together with those who are alive and remain unto the coming
of the Lord is the imminent and blessed hope of the church.
14. THE MILLENNIAL REIGN OF CHRIST
The second coming of Christ includes the rapture of the saints, which is
our blessed hope, followed by the visible return of Christ with His
saints to reign on earth for one thousand years. This millennial reign will brin the salvation of national Israel and the establishment of universal peace.
15. THE FINAL JUDGMENT
There will be a final judgment in which the wicked dead will be raised and judged according to their works. Whosoever is not found written in the Book of Life, together with the devil and his angels, the beast and the false prophet, will be consigned to the everlasting punishment in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
16. THE NEW HEAVENS AND THE NEW EARTH
“We, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.”
We hold to the Assemblies of God 16 Fundamental Truths. Click on the image below to view the full details of our beliefs.
