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The revelation of Jesus Christ as Lord, to the believer, is the reality of a growing relationship with a real and personal God who shines forth His reality progressively. These statements of beliefs are those we currently accept as revealed truth. They are not intended to be restrictive. We believe in the Unfolding Revelation of Present Truth. To that end, we declare it is more important in WHOM we believe than in WHAT we believe!

1. We believe in one God, revealing Himself in three manifestations as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; distinguishable but indivisible.
(Genesis 1:26; Deut. 6:4; 1 Kg. 8:60; Matt. 28:19; Mark 12:29; John 14:26; 15:26; Acts 2:33; 2 Cor. 13:14; Eph. 1:3-14; 4:4-6; Jas. 2:19; 1 Pet. 1:2; 3:18; 1 John 5:7; Rev. 1:4-5)

2. We believe the Bible to be verbally inspired, the inerrant Word of God, and, when rightly interpreted by the Holy Spirit, to be the infallible rule of faith and practice.
(Ps. 45:1; Ezek. 1:3; Matt. 24:35; Luke 24:27; Rom. 15:4; 1 Cor. 10:11; 1 Thess. 2:13; 2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Pet. 1:21)

3. We believe in the creation, and fall, of man as recorded in Genesis; his total spiritual depravity, and inability attain to Divine righteousness.
(Rom. 5:12-19)

4. We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour of men, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, very (fully) God and very (fully) man. Jesus died for our sins, was buried, and rose again according to the Scriptures. He personally appeared in His new body to His disciples before ascending to His seat at the right hand of the Majesty in the heavens. Jesus' finished work (His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension) reversed the curse concerning the spirit, soul, and body of the first man Adam. He is the only Way to the Father, the only valid Door and entry into the realm of Spirit.
(Gen. 3:15; Isa. 7:14; Matt. 1:18-25; John 10:1; 14:6; Acts 4:12; 1 Cor. 15:3-8; Gal. 3:13-14; 1 Tim. 3:16; Heb. 4:14-16; 8:1-6; 10:12-13)

5. We believe in personal regeneration, that one must be born again to see and enter the Kingdom of God. This initial salvation of sinners is by grace through faith in the perfect and all-sufficient finished work of Jesus Christ. The ground of this justification by faith is the blood of Jesus, the Lamb of God.
(John 1:29; 3:1-8; 17:4; 19:30; Acts 13:38-39; Rom. 5:1-2; Eph. 2:8-9; Rev. 13:8)

6. We believe that this conversion experience should be followed with water baptism by immersion in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ as a sign of the remission of sins and the circumcision of the heart in obedience to the scriptures.
(Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38; Rom. 2:28; 6:1-14; Col. 2:11-12; 1 John 5:8)

7. We believe in observing the ordinance of the Lord's Supper. This Communion, the Table of the Lord, is the ongoing celebration of the New Covenant.
(Matt. 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-24; Luke 22:17-20; 1 Cor. 10:16-17; 11:23-30)

8. We believe that sanctification is once and for all, as well as, progressive in experience: first, from the time of conversion, God Himself sets the believer apart by the blood of Jesus; then the believer separates himself unto a Holy God by washing himself daily with the Word. The Spirit-directed life is one of the detachment from this present world system, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
(Matt. 5:48; 1 Cor. 1:30; 2 Cor. 6:11-7:1; Eph. 5:25-27; Col. 3:8-13; Heb. 9:12; 12:14; Jas. 1:27; 1 Pet. 1:15; 1 John 2:15-17)

9. We believe that healing for man's spirit, mind, and body was provided for in the New Covenant. Divine health is a reality for the believer. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law: sin, sickness, poverty, and death.
(Ex. 15:26; Isa. 53:5; Mark 7:26; 16:18; John 10:10; Acts 4:30; 10:38; Rom. 8:11; 1 Cor. 12:9; Gal. 3:13-14; Jas. 5:13-16; 1 Pet. 2:24)

10. We believe all born-again believers have the Spirit of God and that the Pentecostal experience of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is separate from, and subsequent to, conversion. We believe that the initial evidence of this Baptism to be the distinctive speaking with other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance. Speaking with other tongues is the only evidence of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit as described in the Bible. However, it's not necessarily the evidence of a Spirit-filled/controlled life.
(Mark 16:17; Acts 1:4-8; 2:1-4; 10:44-46; 19:6; Gal. 3:14-15; 4:6; Eph. 5:17-18; Col. 1:27; and Ex. 19:1 with Lev. 23:15-22)

11. We believe that the fruit of the Spirit is the divine nature and character of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Pattern Son for every believer. We are called to be like the One who is the firstborn among many brethren.
(Rom. 8:28-29; 2 Cor. 3:18; Gal. 5:22-23; 2 Pet. 1:3-4; 1 John 3:1-3)

12. We believe that the gifts or manifestations of the Holy Spirit are the supernatural ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that every member of the Body of Christ should flow in several of them. New Testament ministry is the outflowing of the indwelling Christ. The Church is called to a spiritual ministry of speaking, knowing, and doing. These nine manifestations enable us to talk like God, think like God, and do the works of God.
(Mark 16:15-20; Acts 1:8; 4:7-10, 29-31; 5:12; 8:5-13; 10:38; Rom. 12:4-8; 1 Cor. 4:20; 12:8-10; 14:1-40; Heb. 2:3-4; 1 Pet. 4:10-11)

13. We believe in Spirit-filled prayer and intercession, and that fasting (abstaining from food) intensifies prayer. Spiritual warfare is waged and won on the basis of Jesus' finished work. We are to cast out demons in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. The devil our adversary, is a reality, and was completely defeated by our Lord's death and resurrection. We are called to enforce Jesus' victory, to overcome the evil one, to call those things which be not as though they were, to prophetically decree a thing so that it will be established unto us.
(Ps. 8:2; Job 1:7; 22:28; Matt. 4:2; 12:25-29; Mark 16:17; Luke 4:2; 10:17-20; 19:13; Acts 8:18-24; 13:6-12; 19:13-20; Rom. 4:17; 2 Cor. 2:11; 11:14, 27; Eph. 6:10-18; Heb. 2:14; Jas. 4:7; 1 Pet. 5:8-9; 1 John 3:8; Rev. 12:11)

14. We believe that God has restored the Tabernacle of David as foretold by Amos 9:11-12 and proclaimed by James in Acts 5:13-18. Originally it was the tent that David had pitched for the Ark of the Covenant where the presence of God dwelled. This resulted in new forms of praise and worship that included singing, standing, bowing, kneeling, and dancing. We believe that we may flow in these as well as in prophetic song and worship as or when led by the Holy Spirit. We are now a "kingdom of priests" called to offer up spiritual sacrifices of worship. Jesus spoke of this hour when "true worshippers" would worship the Father "in spirit and truth." Now is the hour when the Tabernacle of God, the Tabernacle of David is with men, for the church is the place of His indwelling.
(2 Sam. 6; 1 Chron. 13-16; Ps. 32, 149, 150; 1 Cor. 14: 26; 1 Peter 2: 4-10; Rev. 5:10; Rev. 21: 3; 1 Cor. 6:19; Eph. 2: 19-22)

15. We believe that all authority centers in Jesus Christ and that He has delegated His jurisdiction into the home (domestically), the local church (ecclesiastically), and civil government. We believe in theocratic (God-ruled) local church government and order (elders, deacons, and saints). Divine order in the New Testament maintains a plurality of eldership and leadership, but there is a senior elder at any given time with a distinctive anointing to father the flock of God. We also believe that there are three levels of eldership: 1. The apostles, who are responsible for guiding the universal church in the order of God. 2. The elders who are responsible for the local churches, to teach and guide them in the order and truth that has been committed unto them by the apostles. 3. The husbands and fathers who, are responsible for their own family being established in the truth from God through the other offices of eldership.
(Matt. 28:18-20; Acts 13:1-2; 15:19; Rom. 13:1-7; Eph. 1:20-23; Phil. 1:1; 2:5-11; 1 Tim. 3:1-13; Acts 1:1-2; Rom. 1:1-5; Eph. 4:7-8; Acts 14:23; 1 Cor. 11:1; Eph. 5:23; 1 Peter 5:3)

16. We believe in the full restoration of the five-fold ascension-gift ministries that Jesus Christ sent to equip and mature the Church: apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. Their mission is to produce a perfect, full-grown, many-membered new creation Man in the earth, the manifestation or unveiling of the nature and ministry of Jesus Christ in His brethren.
(Rom. 8:19-23; 1 Cor. 13:8-13; Eph. 2:20; 3:1-5; 4:11-16; Col.1:25-29)

17. We believe that the Kingdom of God is a present reality and will expand until the knowledge of His Lordship covers the earth, The Government of God is the purpose of God; it is the extension of His rule and dominion in the earth and the universe. The Church, universal and local, mystical and tangible, invisible and visible, is the instrument through which that purpose is to be realized.
(Gen. 1:26-28; Dan. 2:44-45; 7:27; Hab. 2:14; Mark 1:14-15; Rom 14:17; Eph. 3:21; Heb. 12:25-29; Rev. 1:6; 5:10; 11:15; 19:1-6)

18. We believe that God's judgments are past, present, and future. Our sins were judged in Christ; it was appointed unto man once to die, and Jesus met that appointment. After that we are to stand in His presence and learn how to righteously judge ourselves and others. Thirdly, we shall be judged, for every man will give an account of himself; in that day, the Judge of all the earth shall do right, for His judgments are unto victory. In time to come, the Church will execute and administer the judgment which He is when we judge the world and angels.
(Gen. 18:25; Eccl. 12:14; Matt. 5:13-16; 12:20; John 5:22; Acts 17:31; Rom. 2:16; 14:10-12; 1 Cor. 6:1-3; 2 Cor. 5:10; 2 Thess. 2:7-10; Heb. 9:27; 12:23; Rev. 20:12)

19. We believe that resurrection is past, present, and future. Our spirit was resurrected from a state of spiritual death and passed unto life when we were born from above and translated into His Kingdom. Our soul is being transformed, our minds renewed, from glory to glory by the Spirit of the Lord; our mortal bodies are presently being made alive by the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead. Ultimately, there will be a resurrection in which He shall change these vile bodies and fashion them like unto His glorious body. Not all will sleep, or die; there will be a people or generation, like Enoch and Elijah, who experience the out-resurrection, a spiritual and moral resurrection while yet in the body.
(Job 14:14; Ps. 16:10; 17:15; John 5:24; 11:25; Rom. 8:11, 23; 12:1-2; 1 Cor. 15; 2 Cor. 3:18; 5:6-10; Col. 1:9-13; Phil. 3:11, 21; Rev. 20)

20. We believe the Church to be the seed of Abraham, God's Holy Nation and Chosen Generation, the true Circumcision, the Heavenly Jerusalem, the spiritual Israel of God. Like Jesus, we are the Seed of the Woman, the Seed of Abraham, and the Seed of David; as such, we are heirs together of the grace of life, sharing His pain, His promise, and His power.
(Rom. 2:28-29; 9:6; 15:8 with Acts 3:13; then Gal. 3:7, 16, 29; 4:21-31; 6:16; Matt. 21:42-43 with 1 Pet. 2:9-10; Phil. 3:3; Heb. 12:22-24; then Gen. 3:15; Matt. 1:1; Rom. 8:16-17; 1 Pet. 3:7; 1 John 4:17)

21. We believe that the Father has given the earth to the children of men. The earth is the Lord's; it belongs to Jesus and His Church, not the devil. The meek shall inherit the earth. As kings and priests, we shall reign on the earth. Heaven is the realm of God, and God is omnipresent Spirit; Heaven is nearer than men think. Therefore, we believe in the coming of the Lord, not the going of the saints; in the appearing of the Lord, not the disappearing of the saints. Throughout the Scriptures, God comes to dwell with man. Jesus is coming now (in Spirit) to be glorified "in" the saints; He will come (literally) "with" the saints once His enemies are made His footstool, once He has received the early and latter rains, once we have come to the unity disclosed in John 17 and Ephesians 4, and once He has restored all things spoken by all His holy prophets since the world began. His coming is not "any minute" but "until" (a word denoting time) - no man knows that day or hour.
(Gen. 28:10-17; Ps. 24:1; 37:3, 9, 11, 22, 29, 34; 110:1-6; 115:16; Matt. 5:5; 6:10; 24:36; John 1:51; 3:13; Acts 3:18-24; Eph. 4:13; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; 2 Thess. 1:6-10; Heb. 10:12-13; Jas. 5:7; Rev. 1:6; 5:10; 21:1-11)

22. We believe that there are some things that the Lord has yet to reveal to His Church. We have but crossed the threshold of the Most Holy Place. This is uncharted territory: we have not passed this way heretofore. Apostles and prophets will eventually make these things known to the Church in the seasons of the Lord. We remain open to be taught, corrected or adjusted in our vision.
(Josh. 3:1-5; Isa. 55:9; 1 Cor. 2:9-16; Eph. 3:1-5, 16-21)