What We Believe
Reaching The World
Ministries International
What We Believe
1. We believe the Scriptures are inspired by God as the only infallible, authoritative
word, which declare His design and plan for mankind.
2.
We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin
birth, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father,
and in the blessed hope of His personal, visible future return to this earth to
receive to Himself His Blood-bought Church, which will
be with Him forever.
3. We believe there is only One True God–revealed in three persons...God the
Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (commonly known as the Trinity).
4. We believe in the Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. As God's son Jesus was
both human and divine.
5. We believe though originally good, man willingly fell to sin ushering evil
and death, both physical and spiritual, into the world.
6.
We believe that the only means of being cleansed from sin
is through repentance and faith in the precious blood of Jesus Christ.
7. We believe every Person Can Have Restored Fellowship with God Through
'Salvation' (trusting Christ Jesus, through faith and repentance, to be our
personal Savior).
8.
We
believe and practice two ordinances—(1) Water
Baptism by Immersion in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit after
repenting of one's sins and receiving Christ's gift of salvation, and (2) Holy
Communion (the Lord's Supper) as a symbolic remembrance of Christ's suffering
and death for our salvation.
9.
We
believe the baptism in the Holy Spirit is a special experience following
Salvation that empowers believers for witnessing and effective service, just as
it did in New Testament times and that
regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential
for one's personal salvation and the indwelling enables Christians to live a
Holy life.
10.
We believe the initial physical evidence of baptism with
the Holy Spirit is “Speaking in other Tongues”, as experienced on the day of Pentecost
according to Acts 2:4 and other epistles, and that the gift is given to Believers
who ask God for Him to come in.
11.
We believe that the redemptive work of Christ on the cross
provides healing of the human body in answer to believing prayer.
12. We believe sanctification initially occurs at Salvation and is not only a
declaration that a believer is holy, but also a progressive lifelong process of
separating from evil as believers continually draw closer to God and become
more Christ like.
13. We believe the Church has a Mission to seek and save all who are lost in
sin. The Church' is the Body of Christ and consists of the people who,
throughout time, have accepted God's offer of redemption (regardless of
religious denomination) through the sacrificial death of His son Jesus Christ.
14. We believe a divinely called and scripturally ordained leadership ministry
serves the church. The Bible teaches that each of us under leadership must
commit ourselves to reach others for Christ, to worship Him with other
believers, to build up or edify the body of believers–the Church and to meet
human needs with ministries of love and compassion. By allowing the fivefold
ministry gifts to be in total operation, Apostle, Pastor, Teacher, Prophet, and
Evangelist.
15. We
believe that the marriage intuition is
with a man and a woman according to the scriptures.
16. We believe divine healing of the sick is a privilege for Christians today,
by faith and is provided for in Christ's atonement (His sacrificial death on
the cross for our sins).
17.
We
believe in the blessed hope when Jesus raptures His church prior to His
return to earth (the second coming). At this future moment in time all
believers who have died will rise from their graves and will meet the Lord in
the air, and Christians who are alive will be caught up with them, to be with
the Lord forever and those that reject Him will experience everlasting
damnation.
18. We believe in the millennial reign of Christ when Jesus returns with His
saints at His second coming and begins His benevolent rule over earth for 1,000
years. This millennial reign will bring the salvation of national Israel and
the establishment of universal peace.
19. We believe a final judgment will take place for those who have rejected
Christ and satan. They will be judged for their sin and consigned to eternal
punishment in a punishing lake of fire.
20. We believe and look forward to the perfect New Heavens and a New Earth that
Christ is preparing for His people, of all time, who have accepted Him. We will
live and dwell with Him there forever following His millennial reign on Earth.
'And so shall we forever be with the Lord!'