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The
Rock Church of Anchorage Statement of Beliefs
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- THE HOLY SCRIPTURES
We
believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God (2 Timothy 3:16 ,17).
- THE ETERNAL GODHEAD
We
believe God is Triune: Father, Son and Holy Spirit (2 Corinthians 13:14 ).
- THE FALL OF MAN
We
believe that man was created in the image of God, but that by voluntary
disobedience he lost his relationship with God (Romans 5:12 ).
- THE PLAN OF SALVATION
We
believe that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us, bringing us
back into right relationship with the Father (John 3:16; Romans 5:8).
- SALVATION THROUGH GRACE
We
believe that we have no righteousness of our own but it is a gift from
God given to us by Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:8).
- REPENTANCE AND
ACCEPTANCE
We
believe that upon sincere repentance, and a whole-hearted acceptance of
Christ, we are justified before God (I John 1:9).
- THE NEW BIRTH
We
believe that the change which takes place in the heart and life at
conversion is a very real one and that we are literally born again
spiritually as children of God (2 Corinthians 5:17 ; Galatians 2:20 ).
- DAILY CHRISTIAN LIVING
We
believe that it is the will of God that we be sanctified daily, growing
constantly in the faith (Hebrews 6:1).
- BAPTISM AND THE LORD'S
SUPPER
We
believe that baptism by immersion is an outward sign of an inward work
(Matt. 28:19). We believe in the commemoration of the Lord's Supper by
the symbolic use of the bread and juice of the vine (I Corinthians 11:24 , 25).
- BAPTISM WITH THE HOLY
SPIRIT
We
believe that the Baptism with the Holy Spirit is to endue the believer
with power; and that His incoming is after the same manner as in Bible
days (Matt 3:11, Acts 2:4).
- THE SPIRIT-FILLED LIFE
We
believe that it is the will of God that we walk in the Spirit daily
(Ephesians 4:30
-32).
- THE GIFTS AND FRUIT OF
THE SPIRIT
We
believe that the Holy Spirit has gifts to bestow upon the Christian;
and that we should show spiritual fruit as evidence of a Spirit-filled
life (I Corinthians 12:1-11; Galatians 5:22 ).
- DIVINE HEALING
We
believe that divine healing is the power of Christ to heal the
physically sick in answer to the prayer of faith (James 5:14 -16). Divine healing
was provided to us in the atonement (Isa 53:5)
- THE SECOND COMING OF
CHRIST
We
believe that the second coming of Christ is personal and imminent (I
Thessalonians 4:16,
17).
- CHURCH RELATIONSHIP
We
believe it is our sacred duty to identify ourselves with the visible
Body of Christ (Acts 16:5;Hebrews 10:25).
- CIVIL GOVERNMENT
We
believe that rulers should be upheld at all times except in things
opposed to the will of God (Romans 13:1-5).
- THE FINAL JUDGMENT
We
believe that all shall stand some day before the judgment seat of Christ where the saved will be separated from the
unsaved. (2 Corinthians 5:10 ).
- HEAVEN
We
believe that Heaven is the glorious eternal home of born-again
believers who will live forever with God (John 14:1-3; Revelation 7:15 -17).
- HELL
We
believe that hell is the place of all lost souls who die, and it will
be thrown into the lake of fire along with the devil, his angels and
all who rejected Christ as the Savior (Revelation 20:10,15).
- EVANGELISM
We
believe that soul winning is a command from Jesus to go into all the
world and make disciples, and that our love for the lost comes from our
love for the Father (James
5:20 ).
- OFFERINGS
We
believe that giving is a principle that God established to teach us
faith, unselfishness and to support the work of the ministry. God loves
and blesses a cheerful giver (Malachi 3:10 ; 2 Corinthians 9:7).
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