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In our church, a personal relationship with God through worship, prayer and the teaching of the Bible is emphasised. We do not allow the practice of speaking in tongues or prophesying during our church services, because we do not belive that the Holy Spirit would interupt himself. We have special meetings, however, where believers are encouraged to use those gifts.
We believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit mentioned in the Scriptures, and that they are valid for today if they are exercised within scriptural guidelines. We as believers are to covet the best gifts, seeking to exercise them in love so that the whole Body of Christ might be edified. We belie-ve that love is more important than the most spectacular gifts, and without this love all exercise of spiritual gifts is worthless.
We believe that God is eternally existent in three distinct persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We believe that God is the personal, transcendent, and sovereign Creator of all things. We believe that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human, that He was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, provided for the atonement of our sins by His substitutionary death on the cross, was bodily raised from the dead, ascended to the right hand of the Father, and ever lives to make intercession for us.
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We believe that church activities and managment should be simple instead of complicated bureaucracy. We also give priority to the Holy Spirit and not our own purposes.
We teach the Bible in such a way that people can apply the teachings in their own lives. This way they will be able to grow in Jesus Christ more easily.
We believe in all the basic doctrines of historic Christianity. We believe in the inerrancy of Scripture, that the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, is the inspired and infallible Word of God.
We believe in the personal, visible and pre-millennial second coming of Jesus Christ to the earth. He will return with His saints and set up a kingdom of which there will be no end. We believe that after Jesus ascended to Heaven, He poured out His Holy Spirit on the believers in Jerusalem, enabling them to fulfill His command to preach the gospel to the entire world, an obligation shared by all believers today.
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We believe the worship of God should be spiritual; therefore, we remain flexible and yielded to the leading of the Holy Spirit to direct our worship.We believe the worship of God should be inspirational; therefore, we give a great place to music in our worship. We believe the worship of God should be intelligent; therefore, church services are designed with great emphasis upon teaching the Word of God that He might instruct us. We believe the worship of God should be fruitful. Therefore, we look for His love in our lives as the supreme manifestation that we have truly been worshipping Him.
We believe that all people are, by nature, separated from God and are responsible for their own sin, but that salvation, redemption, and forgiveness are freely offered to all by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. When a person repents of sin and accepts Jesus Christ as personal Savior and Lord, trusting Him to save, that person is immediately born again and sealed by the Holy Spirit. All his/her sins are forgiven, and that person becomes a child of God, destined to spend eternity with the Lord.
We believe that all christians will be taken into heaven before the desolation of the Earth, foretold in the Bibl.
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