The Lord Jesus Christ is building His Church.
It is His One Holy Apostolic Church.


(click this posting for full explanation how we use the term:  apostolic)


Our Statements of Faith



  We believe in true, apostolic, scriptural teaching of the Kingdom Message
     in support of the Full Gospel of Jesus Christ both in Word and Deed.

  • We believe the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, are the inspired living Word of God, giving
     revelation of His will for the salvation
of man and the divine and final authority for all Christian faith,
     life, and conduct.


 
We believe in one Living God, Creator of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three
    persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.


 
We believe Jesus Christ, without any change in His eternal deity, became man through conception by
    the Holy Spirit and virgin birth.
  He died on the cross, a perfect and complete sacrifice, to establish the
    Way for mankind to be reconciled to God. He died for our sins according to the Scriptures.
    He was resurrected bodily from the dead by the Holy Spirit. He walked the earth forty days preparing
    His apostles for the work of the ministry and teaching and performing the miraculous.  Afterward, He
    ascended into heaven and sits on the eternal throne of David at the right hand of the Father.

 

  • We believe that the completed work of Christ: His birth, life, ministry, water and Spirit baptism,
     teachings, miracles, crucifixion, death, burial, descent into hell, resurrection, and ascension
to the
     right hand of God the Father fulfilled the promises of God of the Old testament prophets.
     The fulfillment is the witness and consummation of the Gospel and the outpourings of the
Holy Ghost.
     The Lord Jesus declared to His disicples that the Holy Ghost would be sent to them to represent Him
     and affirm He was with His Father ruling the heavens and the earth. John 16:1-23 (see:Amplified Bible)


 
We believe Jesus is alive and has been ruling as King and Lord of all things since His ascension and
     crowning evidenced by the fulfillment of Joel 2:28-32... the Day of Pentecost and the gift of the Holy
     Spirit Acts 2:1-4. 
Christ's Kingship is evidenced by the divine gift and working presence of the Holy
     Spirit as He manifests Himself and administrates the spiritual gifts of the Kingdom given to the believing
     church on earth. His Person and manifest presence empowers the work of the ministry of the Kingdom.


 
We believe Christ rules with authority over all things, principalities and powers.  A life in the Kingdom
     of God is not appointed for some future event.
The Kingdom of Heaven is a Now reality seen through
     the eyes, ears and acts of faith.  Hebrews 11:1-3

 
We believe the Kingdom of Heaven on earth has not been postponed for a future reign. The Jewish
     mission was completed through the work of the 1st century apostolate. 
The scattered remanent of
     believers were assembled into the One Holy Apostolic Church in compliance to the mandate of the Lord:
     "You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in
    Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."
Acts 1:8
     By 70 AD, the apostolic company of Peter and the apostolic company of Paul had carried the Gospel
     into the then known world.  The Sign that the Kingdom had been established and the mandate fufilled
     was the destruction of Jerusalem and Jewish Temple as prophesied by the Lord. (see Matthew 24,
     Mark 13 and Luke 21 whereby Jesus declares the events that would occur within the disciples
     generation.)

 
We believe Jesus is King, High Priest and Advocate this day, this moment... to those who believe and
     receive Him.   He is actively administering the affairs of His Church and the affairs of nations through
     the Holy Spirit.  1 John 2:20  But you have been anointed by [you hold a sacred appointment from,
     you have been given an unction from] the Holy one, and you all know [the Truth] or you know all things.
 
 
We believe the Name of Jesus represents who He is and all that He is.   He is the only begotten Son
    of God and the Son of man sent from heaven... fully God and fully man. 


  •We believe in the experience of Pentecost: the gift of tongues, baptism and empowerment of the Holy 
    Spirit are for those who believe and receive.


  • We believe the Holy Spirit is a Divine Person.  He is not a "principle,"  "a thing" or "an it." His ministry
    is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ through the Church Body Universal.
 
He is sent to comfort, indwell,
    guide, instruct, fill, and empower the believer for godly living and service in the Truth of God,
    the Word and the Spirit while the church age remains.    It is the Holy Spirit who empowers and
    administrates spiritual gifts: visions, prophetic dreams, knowledge, wisdom, miracle healing, prophetic
    songs, prophetic utterances, speaking in tongues and the ability to interpret spiritual
language with
    spiritual understanding.

  • We believe that water baptism and the Lord’s Supper are ordinances to be observed by the Church
 
   during this present church age. They are not to be regarded as the means of salvation.

    Water baptism by submersion is the initiation rite to the Kingdom life which identifies our death to self
    and obedience to Jesus Christ as King and Lord of our lives.

  • We believe that the Church, defined, is composed of all such persons who through saving faith in
     Jesus Christ, initiation into the Kingdom through water baptism and the divine work of regeneration
     by the Holy Spirit are
the Body of Christ of which Christ is the Head and the Head of Christ is God the
     Father.  1Corinthians 11:3

  • We believe that man was directly created by God in His own image.  Mankind willingly chose to disobey
    God's commands.
Through the disobedience, mankind fell from grace and was separated from his
    perfect state with God. The entire human race is, therefore, born into sin and lost in sin. 
Only through
    repentance and faith in Jesus Christ can regeneration by the Holy Spirit and life in the Kingdom of
    Heaven be obtained.  Salvation is a gift of God and not a result of the plans or works of mankind. 

  • We believe that the atoning death of Jesus Christ and His resurrection provide the only way of
     justification and salvation for all who believe. 
Only such as receive the gift of redemption through
    Jesus Christ by personal profession of faith in Him, that He is the Christ, the Son of God and trust in
    Him and rely on Him, receive new life of the spirit by the Holy Spirit and the promise of eternal life.

  • We believe that during the destiny age of the Church, the Holy Spirit is to convict of sin and regenerate
    the repentent sinner.  Through genuine sorrow and repentance, and believing, recieving and submitting
    to Christ, one experiences the regeneration of the spirit . We become a New Creature.... Born-again
    by the Holy Spirit. 

  • We believe that all the saved should live a life that honors and glorifies the Lord and find a church body
    in which to serve. 
We are commanded of God to remain separated from false doctrines, sinful pleasures,
    and unrighteous practices.

 
 
  We believe in the return of our Lord Jesus Christ as the Bible clearly cites in the apostles writings to the
    1st century church.  
We believe in the resurrection of all the dead, of the believer to everlasting life and
    joy with the Lord and of the unbeliever to judgment and everlasting conscious punishment and eternal
    damnation. 
The dead in Christ will rise first and those who are still alive will be caught up together to
    meet the Lord.   I Cor.15:52; I Thess.4:16-17
 
    The hope of His appearing has a vital bearing on the personal life and service of the believer.
    True, apostolic, scriptural teaching of the Kingdom Message and Full Gospel of Jesus Christ
    does not support the teachings of a "double rapture" along with its suppositions and inferences that
    are made to present such heresy.  This false teaching has permeated many denominational and
    independent churches.   Orthodox churches have not changed their doctrines of faith to encompass
    these doctrinal and theological teachings. 
    For full discourse on what Jesus taught in Matthew 24, Luke 23 and Mark 16... to THIS GENERATION
 
  • We believe in the existence of uncountable numbers of angels who worship God. Angels are also
    assigned to minister to believers.
 
 
We believe in the existence of Satan, the devil, a fallen angelic being, who with his demons opposes
    God,
His people, and His work, over whom believers have spiritual victory through the Name of Jesus
    Christ.  
Satan is a free agent. He has a realm of authority in sinful mankind and he has demonic subjects 
    who administer his realm of demonic influence.
Satan is not omnipresent (present everywhere),
   
omnipotent (have absolute power and authority), or omniscient (knowing everything).



  Only our Living Triune God possesses these attributes!

Ephesians 6:12  AMP
  For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against
  the despotisms, against the powers, against [the master spirits who are] the world rulers of this present
  darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere.


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