We are part of the fast-growing group of Christians known as Pentecostals
who today number well over 500 million world-wide. We are in fellowship
with Assemblies
of God whose churches around the world have one thing
in common: a desire to know and please God and share His blessings
with other people. The following is our statement of faith.
1)
We Believe that the Bible (i.e. the Old and New Testaments excluding
the Apocrypha) is the inspired Word of God, the infallible, all-sufficient
rule for faith and practice. (2 Tim.3:15-16; 2 Pet.1:21)
2) We Believe in the unity of the one true and living God Who
is the eternal, self-existent 'I AM', Who has also revealed Himself
as one Being existing in three Persons - Father, Son and Holy
Spirit. (Deut.6:4; Mark 12:29; Matt.28:19; 2 Cor.3:14)
3) We Believe in the virgin birth, sinless life, miraculous ministry,
substitutionary atoning death, bodily resurrection, triumphant
ascension and abiding intercession of the Lord Jesus Christ and
in His premillennial second advent as the blessed hope set before
all believers. (Isa.7:14; Matt.1:23; Heb.7:26; 1 Pet.2:22; Acts
2:22, 10:38, 2 Cor.5:21; Heb. 9:12; Luke 24:39; 1 Cor.15:4; Acts
1:9; Eph.4:8-10; Rom.8:34; Heb.7:25; 1 Cor. 15:22-24,51-57; 1
Thess.4:13-18; Rev.20:1-6)
4) We Believe in the fall of man, who was created pure and upright,
but fell by voluntary transgression. (Gen.1:26-31; 3:1-7; Rom.5:12-21
5) We Believe in salvation through faith in Christ, Who, according
to the Scriptures, died for our sins, was buried and was raised
from the dead on the third day, and that through His blood we
have redemption. (Titus 2:11;3:5-7; Rom.10:8-15, 1 Cor. 15:3-4.)
This experience is also known as the new birth, and is an instantaneous
and complete operation of the Holy Spirit upon initial faith in
the Lord Jesus Christ. (John 3:5-6; James 1:18; 1 Pet.1:23; 1
John 5:1)
6) We Believe that all who have truly repented and believed in
Christ as Lord and Saviour are commanded to be baptised by immersion
in water. (Matt.28:19; Acts 10:47-48; Acts 2:38-39)
7) We Believe in the baptism in the Holy Spirit, the initial evidence
of which is the speaking with other tongues as the Spirit gives
utterance. (Acts 2:4, 10:44-46, 11:14-16, 19:6; Isa.8:18)
8) We Believe in the operation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit
and the gifts of Christ in the Church today. (1Cor.12:4-11, 28;
Eph. 4:7-16)
9) We Believe in holiness of life and conduct in obedience to
the command of God. (1 Pet.1:14-16; Heb.12:14; 1 Thess.5:23; 1
John 2:6)
10) We Believe that deliverance from sickness, by divine healing,
is provided for in the atonement. (Isa.53:4-5; Matt.8:16-17; James
5:13-16)
11) We Believe that all who have truly repented and believe in
Christ as Lord and Saviour should regularly participate in Breaking
of Bread. (Luke 22:14-20; 1 Cor. 11:20-34)
12) We Believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the everlasting
conscious bliss of all who truly believe in our Lord Jesus Christ
and the everlasting conscious punishment of all whose names are
not written in the book of life. (Dan. 12:2-3;John 5:28-29; 1
Cor. 15:22-24; Matt. 25:46; 2 Thess. 1:9; Rev. 20:10-15)