STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
We purpose to be an expression of the body of Christ (the Church), submitted to the Lord Jesus Christ in all things, patterned after the elements of the New Testament Church that are reproducible in our particular context and dedicated to fulfill this by the power of the Holy Spirit.
- TO WORSHIP, adore and glorify God in the liberty of the Holy Spirit through public and private worship and to minister the sacraments or ordinances of the Church.
- TO PREACH AND TEACH the Bible as the Word of God.
- TO DISCIPLE believers to be submitted to the Lordship of Christ through the local church.
- TO REPRODUCE the life and character of the risen Christ in an expanding expression of our union with Christ.
- TO TRAIN a body of praying believers who effectively call for the will of God through intercession.
- TO DEVELOP spiritual leaders who can multiply themselves and meet the needs of others.
We are called to be an area-wide church body with an international outreach. We are called to service to God and then to man as unto God. The Holy Spirit has called us to be:
- A house of prayer for all nations.
- A house of praise and worship.
- A house of obedience to the harvest.
- A house of faithfulness in tithes and offerings.
WE BELIEVE
- The Bible is the inspired and only infallible and authoritative Word of God (2 Timothy 3:16).
- There is one God, eternally existent in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost (2 Corinthians 13:14).
- In the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal future return to this earth in power and glory to rule a thousand years (Matthew 16:16; 1 Corinthians 15:3,4).
- In the blessed hope, which is the rapture of the Church, at Christ's coming (Titus 2:13).
- The only means of being cleansed from sin is through repentance and faith in the precious blood of Christ (1 Peter 1:18,19).
- Regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential for personal salvation (John 3:3-5).
- The redemptive work of Christ on the cross provides healing of the human body in answer to believing prayer (1 Peter 2:24).
- The baptism of the Holy Spirit, according to Acts 2:4, is given to believers who ask for it (Acts 2:39).
- In the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a holy life (Galatians 5:16).
- In the resurrection of both the saved and the lost, the one to everlasting life and the other to everlasting damnation (John 5:28,29).
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