Core Values & What We Believe
- To see the Gospel of the Kingdom preached in all the earth.
- To see all believers follow the Lord in water and Holy Spirit baptism and to become true biblical disciples.
- To see all believers free of any bondages and barriers (spiritual, psychological or physical) that would hinder them from fulfilling God’s plan for their lives.
- To see all those called to the fivefold ministry trained and empowered for ministry within the paradigm of team ministry.
- To see the fivefold ministry working together to train, disciple and empower all members of the Body to mature and to enter into the ministry that God has for them.
- To see the Body of Messiah return to a balanced approach to our Hebraic Heritage and to become that Bride without spot or wrinkle. Our goal is not to become culturally Jewish — it is to become Biblically accurate in our lives and ministries.
- To see the biblical model of family honored, strengthened and to achieve God’s full purpose for it in the earth.
- To see communities and nations transformed by the power of God and through God’s people living in true biblical holiness.
The Trinity
It is the testimony of both the Old and New Testaments and of the Christian Church that God is both One and Triune. There is only one God, eternally existent in three persons — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Father
God the Father is the creator and sustainer of all things, and He created the universe in love. He created man in His own image for fellowship and called man back to Himself through Christ after the rebellion and fall of man.
Son
Jesus Christ is eternally God. He was together with the Father and the Holy Spirit from the beginning, and through Him all things were made. For man’s redemption, He left heaven and became incarnate by the Holy Spirit through the virgin Mary; henceforth, He is forever one Christ with two natures — God and man — in one person.
Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is God, the Lord and giver of life, who was active in the Old Testament and given to the Church in fullness at Pentecost. He empowers the saints for service and witness, cleanses man from the old nature and conforms us to the image of Christ.
The Scripture
We affirm that the Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, is alone the only infallible, inspired Word of God, and that its authority is ultimate, final, and eternal. It cannot be added to, subtracted from, or superseded in any regard.
Salvation
The Word of God declares clearly that salvation is a free gift of God, based on the merits of the death of His Son, and is appropriated by faith. Salvation is effected by personal repentance, belief in the Lord Jesus, and personal acceptance of Him into one’s life as Lord and Savior.
The Church
The goal of the Church is to make disciples of all nations and to present the saints complete in Christ. The five-fold ministry of Ephesians 4 governs the Church. Church policy is a balance between congregation and eldership authority, emphasizing the final authority of the Church leadership.
Baptism & the Lord’s Supper
The Word of God enjoins on the Church two perpetual ordinances of the Lord Jesus Christ. Baptism is the outward sign of what God has already done in the individual’s life. The Lord’s Supper is a commemoration of the death of the Lord, done in remembrance of Him until He comes again.
Eschatology
We affirm the bodily, personal, second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, the resurrection of the saints, the millennium, and the final judgment. We affirm the final state of the new heavens and the new earth.