BELIEFS

MINISTRY VISION STATEMENT

To positively affect the Greater Church of Jesus Christ through FELLOWSHIP in effort to help our brothers and sisters reach the purpose for which they were created in God.

To stir the indwelling Holy Spirit to be released and grown in our earthly lives, to produce the fruit that has not been seen since the early Apostolic Church.

To minister hope in the Kingdom Plan of God. Through our Lord's guidance, to impart gifts, creativity, (within adherence to Holy Scripture), and ideas that increase the heartfelt hunger for an intimate relationship with God and Man.

REGARDING GOD

We believe in the one and only true God, the Creator and Sustainer of all things, infinitely perfect, Holy, and eternally co existing in the HOLY TRINITY of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who are omnipotent and omnipresent for all of time. 

GOD the FATHER

We believe in God the Father, who is an infinite and personal spirit, completely perfect in Holiness, Wisdom, power, and love. He gracefully and mercifully concerns Himself in the affairs if His creation (mankind).

He hears and answers prayer, and He saves from sin and death all who come to Him through the Son, ... Jesus Christ.

SCRIPTURAL AUTHORITY

We believe Holy Scripture, both Old and New Testaments, are the infallible and ever sustainable direct Word of God. We believe that original manuscripts are the inspired, inerrant Word of God, the complete revelation of His will for the Salvation of mankind, and the final authority for all matters about which it instructs.

We believe that Father God still facilitates everything today as He has for all time and as outlines in Holy Scripture.

REGARDING OUR MESSIAH, JESUS

We believe Yeshua / Jesus Christ is God and that He is God's only begotten Son. He was conceived by the seed of the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, lived a spotless and sinless life, performed miracles and was infallibly taught and lived among men, and is the living word of God and has been from the beginning. We believe He pre-existed with God in the form of God.

YESHUA / JESUS freely gave up His Holy Heavenly position, humbled Himself, and became incarnated as a man. We believe Jesus Christ to be the one and only conduit and mediator between mankind and God our Creator and Father.

THE ATONEMENT 

We believe Jesus willingly, at the direction of God, and through His love for us substituted His earthly death in the Love Sacrifice at Calvary in exchange for the atonement of mankind's sins. This Love Sacrifice and His bodily resurrection back to God the Father provides the only ground for forgiveness, justification, and Salvation for all whom believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

RESURRECTION

We believe Jesus Christ resurrected Himself from earthly death, He then ascended to Heaven and sits again at the right hand of God the Father, forever making intercession for His People.

Just as He resurrected from death, His resurrection is the First Fruit Promise of the resurrection into Heavenly Eternity for all whom believe in Him.

We believe that when Jesus ascended to God, He gave Holy Ministry Gifts to mankind to be utilized to mature and unify His people, to help His people grow in fellowship and intimacy with the Father, culminating in an effort to advance 

His Holy Kingdom.

SALVATION

We believe that by the acceptance and confession of Yeshua / Jesus Christ as the only Son of God and asking Him for the forgiveness of our sins results in a regeneration of our lives as the seed of God's light enters and stirs our indwelling spirit ... ( Gal 3:19 , John 3:9 ). This results in being Born Again as we become a New Creation in God as Holy Scripture says we must be.

Although this does not make every action or thought immediately perfect or discerning, we acknowledge it is the beginning of a new way of life. A life in God, that allows God in His endless love and faithfulness, to conform to His nature.

    ... ( Romans 5:10, Phil. 1:6 )
* We believe and evangelize the importance for Jew & Gentile to co-edify one another and to understand the Jewish intricacies of the Gospel and Adonai's Salvation Plan. We believe that the need for 'unification' of the Body of Christ is highlighted within the words and actions of our Jewish Messiah. Both more clearly understood through
better understanding the 'Jewishness of our Gospel', and the co-dependant roles of Yeshua's Chosen People AND the Nations,

TOGETHER !!! 

THE HOLY SPIRIT

( Ruach ha Qodesh )

We believe the Holy Spirit of God is God. He came forth from the Father and the Son to convict the world of sinful ways, righteousness, and judgement. The Holy Spirit is the regeneration and sanctification for believers in Jesus Christ.

The Holy Spirit creates in us the realization that the presence of Jesus Christ is real and true in all whom believe. The Holy Spirit comforts, teaches, guides, convicts and enables Born Again Believers to live in such a way that is pleasing to the eye of God. As the spirit matures, we begin to comprehend the fact that our earthly lives provide unequaled happiness while adhering to scripture.

The Holy Spirit empowers believers to activate and utilize the Ministry Gifts given to us. The Holy Spirit indwells in every believer of Jesus. We believe in a present, interactive, inter-relational ministry of the Holy Spirit and in every Biblical blessing which He incessantly gives today and every day, forever.

THE LORD's SUPPER

We believe and accept the directive to partake in the Lord's Supper, that we may forever recall Jesus and the love sacrifice that was His life in exchange for the atonement of our sins. In this we see a commitment to follow His way, and is a sign of the devotion of our earthly lives to His kingdom.

He ( Jesus, ... Yeshua ) was Himself the Passover Lamb and in this He fulfilled the Passover Feast. The Lord's Supper is a Holy and Discerning ordinance which pronounces and commemorates our Personal Fellowship with Jesus and the forgiveness of our sins through His Holy sacrifice. By partaking in The Lord's Supper in a united and organized Church environment gives outward testimony to our personal relationship with Christ AND each-other as the The Body of Christ.

BAPTISM

It is our belief that water immersion Baptism should be consummated as shortly as possible after confessing  Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and the realization and steadfast belief in His Atoning sacrifice for OUR sins.
This is both a public and personal display of our Faith in Biblical outlined reasoning for His death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. 

BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT

We believe in the Baptism of ( Ruach ha Qodesh ) The Holy Spirit. This is a God planned additional blessing of an impartation which empowers, comforts, and is augmented or grown with the manifestation and maturation of the God given gifts in each believers life. Available to all believers, the Baptism of The Holy Spirit Transfigures and Transforms to mature to the point that we actually take on the very nature of Christ in our lives.

The maturing Holy Spirit and God Given blessings are paramount to growing the Church, growing the flock to help save the Lost Sheep, and to advance the Glory of God's Kingdom.

THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS

We believe that there will soon be a quite literal personal, physical, and visible earthly return of Christ Jesus! This will initiate the formation of His Kingdom.

We believe our bodies will be resurrected, there will be final judgement, with eternal blessings to the righteous, along with eternal woes for the wicked in heart and deed.

OUR FAITH

We believe our Faith moves and grows and matures the Holy Spirit within. Our Faith dictates that the Holy Spirit ultimately reveals the Son, and life in the Son reveals our Father, ( Abba ), God. This Faith revelation is in fact                      ' The Kingdom Process '.

Eternal change happens through the maturing of God's spirit within, and consequently initiates the process of God's Kingdom. As a result, the mature Holy Spirit convicts our hearts to that of PASSION for God and mankind.

Finally, not eloquent, nor passionate speeches or presentations of Holy Scripture can activate The Kingdom Process and transfigure the hearts and minds of mankind. Rather it is God Himself through His pre-determined plans for each of His children who initiates and manages the journey that draws us closely to Himself for His purposes which at times are beyond our understanding.

In closing, we would like to point out the very important fact that ' For centuries, the Christian Church has been adding the RELIGION 'of man' atop of Adonai / God's 'original' Kimgdom Plan. More times than not, these 'variances' are nothing but a humanistic re-theorization in reaction to self justify sin and sacrifice. ' If there is but ONE truth, why is it that over 38,000 Christian Denominations exist ? '

  ' 90 % Belief, or 90 % Faith in the Holy word of God, is in our minds

NO Faith at all ! '

JESUS  > RELIGION

We pray these truths currently reside in you, or have begun to manifest within you. If we may be of any help at all to your journey or to strengthening your Holy relationships, please contact us !

With Blessings in the Holiest of Names,

We Wish You the JOY of JESUS !

Pastor Bill

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