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Foci:
God has given us four key focuses for this ministry.
1. Passionate and Heartfelt Worship of God
2. Effective and Ongoing Outreach to the unbelieving of the Treasure Coast and the world
3. Physical and Emotional Healing to the sick and broken
4. Motivating & Equipping people like you to live in your God ordained destiny
Our Beliefs:
WE BELIEVE that
God is the Eternal King. He is an infinite, unchangeable Spirit,
perfect in holiness, wisdom, goodness, justice, power, and love. From
all eternity He exists as the One Living and True God in three persons
of one substance, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, equal in
power and glory.
WE BELIEVE that God's kingdom
is everlasting. From His throne, through His Son, His eternal Word, God
created, upholds and governs all that exists: the heavenly places, the
angelic hosts, the universe, the earth, every living thing and mankind.
God created all things very good.
WE BELIEVE that Satan,
originally a great, good angel, rebelled against God, taking a host of
angels with him. He was cast out of God's presence and, as a usurper of
God's rule established a counter kingdom of darkness and evil on earth.
WE BELIEVE that God created
mankind in His image, male and female, for relationship with Himself
and to govern the earth. Under the temptation of Satan, our original
parents fell from grace, bringing sin, sickness, and God's judgment of
death to the earth. Through the fall, Satan and his demonic hosts
gained access to God's good creation. Creation now experiences the
consequences and effects of Adam's original sin. Human beings are born
in sin, subject to God's judgment of death, and captive to Satan's
kingdom of darkness.
WE BELIEVE that God did not
abandon His rule over the earth which He continues to uphold by His
providence. In order to bring redemption, God established covenants
which revealed His grace to sinful people. In the covenant with
Abraham, God bound himself to His people Israel, promising to deliver
them from bondage to sin and Satan and to bless all the nations through
them.
WE BELIEVE that as King, God
later redeemed His people by His mighty acts from bondage in Egypt and
established His covenant through Moses, revealing His perfect will and
our obligation to fulfill it. The law's purpose is to order our fallen
race and to make us conscious of our moral responsibility. By the work
of God's Spirit, it convicts us of our sin and God's righteous judgment
against us and brings us to Christ alone for salvation.
WE BELIEVE that when Israel
rejected God's rule over her as King, God established the monarchy in
Israel and made an unconditional covenant with David, promising that
his heir would restore God's kingdom reign over His people as Messiah
forever.
WE BELIEVE that in the fullness
of time, God honored His covenants with Israel and His prophetic
promises of salvation by sending His only Son, Jesus, into the world.
Conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, as fully God
and fully man in one person, He is humanity as God intended us to be.
Jesus was anointed as God's Messiah and empowered by the Holy Spirit,
inaugurating God's Kingdom reign on earth, overpowering the reign of
Satan by resisting temptation, preaching the good news of salvation,
healing the sick, casting out demons, and raising the dead. Gathering
His disciples, He reconstituted God's people as His dying for the sins
of the world; Jesus was raised from the dead on the third day,
fulfilling the covenant of blessing given to Abraham.
In His sinless, perfect life, Jesus met the demands of the law and in
His atoning death on the cross He took God's judgment for sin which we
deserve as lawbreakers. By His death on the cross, He also disarmed the
demonic powers. His death on the cross also opened up healing as part
of the gospel to be preached.
The covenant with David was fulfilled in Jesus' birth from David's
house, His Messianic ministry, His glorious resurrection from the dead,
His ascent into heaven, and His present rule at the right hand of the
Father. As God's Son and David's heir, He is the eternal Messiah King,
advancing God's reign throughout every generation and throughout the
whole earth today.
WE BELIEVE that the Holy Spirit
was poured out on the church on the evening of the resurrection, when
Jesus breathed upon his disciples and told them to receive the Holy
Spirit. This was the experience of receiving the indwelling Spirit
bringing “zoe,” life to them. The baptism of repentance is when this is
continued in the history of the Church. This is the one baptism
referred to in 1 Corinthians 12:13, baptizing believers into the body
of Christ. These disciples and others would later receive the “Promise
of the Father”: the mighty baptism with the Holy Spirit when He would
come upon (“epi”) them. This was the experience of the disciples (who
had earlier received the Spirit when Jesus breathed upon them and said,
“Receive the Spirit“) on the Day of Pentecost. Whereas the receiving of
the Spirit on the evening of the resurrection was for life, at
Pentecost the Spirit came upon them in power and released the gifts of
the Spirit to them. The Holy Spirit brings the permanent indwelling
presence of God to us for spiritual worship, personal sanctification,
building up the Church, gifting us for ministry, and driving back the
kingdom of Satan by the evangelization of the world through proclaiming
the word of Jesus and doing the works of Jesus.
WE BELIEVE that the Holy Spirit
indwells every believer in Jesus Christ and that He is our abiding
Helper, Teacher, and Guide. We believe Jesus is the one who baptizes us
in the Holy Spirit, as a conscious experience, for ministry today. We
believe that this baptism in the Spirit is almost always subsequent to
conversion, that on very rare occasions it comes at the time of
conversion. Even with this observation it is difficult to know if it
was truly simultaneous or occurred a few seconds after conversion. We
believe the biblical pattern is for this experience to be subsequent,
though there is even in the Bible an instance when it wasn’t (the
experience of Cornelius in Acts 10, in light of Acts 11:14, “He will
bring you a message through which you and all your household will be
saved”).
WE BELIEVE in the present
ministry of the Spirit and in the exercise of all biblical gifts of the
Spirit. We practice the laying on of hands for the empowering of the
Spirit, for healing, for impartations of gifts of the Holy Spirit and
for recognition and empowering of those whom God has ordained to lead
and serve the church. We also recognize that another of the two ways
recorded in the Bible that God empowers people is through individual or
corporate prayer and waiting upon God, and in this latter scenario
there is no laying on of hands. We value both of these ways of
receiving impartations and empowering experiences from God.
WE BELIEVE that the Holy Spirit
inspired the human authors of the Holy Scripture so that the Bible is
“God-breathed.” We receive the sixty six books of the Old and New
Testaments as our final, absolute authority, the only infallible rule
of faith and practice.
WE BELIEVE that the whole
world is under the domination of Satan and that all people are sinners
by nature and choice. All people therefore are under God's just
judgment. Through the preaching of the Good News of Jesus and the
Kingdom of God and the work of the Holy Spirit, God regenerates,
justifies, adopts and sanctifies through Jesus by the Spirit all who
repent of their sins and trust in Jesus as Lord and Savior. By this
they are released from Satan's domain and enter into God's kingdom
reign.
WE BELIEVE in the one, holy,
universal Church. All who repent of their sins and trust Jesus as Lord
and Savior are regenerated by the Holy Spirit and form the living Body
of Christ, of which He is the head and all are members. The Church was
established during the ministry of our Lord, received the Spirit, with
its regenerating life, on the night of the Resurrection, and received
the “Promise of the Father” the Baptism or Filling with the Holy Spirit
on the day of Pentecost.
WE BELIEVE that Jesus Christ
committed two ordinances to the Church: water baptism and the Lord's
Supper. Both are available to all believers. We recognize that grace is
also conveyed through the preaching and study of the Word of God, the
Bible.
WE BELIEVE that God's kingdom
has come in the ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ, that it continues to
come in the ministry of the Holy Spirit through the Church, and that it
will be consummated in the glorious, visible, and triumphant appearing
of Christ: His return to the earth as King. After Christ returns to
reign, He will bring about the final defeat of Satan and all of his
minions and works, the resurrection of the dead, the final judgment and
eternal conscious punishment of the wicked, and the eternal blessing of
the righteous.
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