Explaining our worship service
Why Do We Do That?
Why do we worship the way we do?
"...a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." (John 4:23-24)
Why do we stand when we sing?
"And the Levites...stood up to praise the Lord God of Israel with a loud voice on high."
(2 Chronicles 20:19)
"And they were also to stand every morning to thank and praise the Lord. They were to do the same in the evening..." (1 Chronicles 23:30)
Why do we clap our hands?
"Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy." (Psalm 47:1)
Why do we lift our hands?
"I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands." (Psalm 63:4)
"Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the Lord." (Psalm134:2)
"I want men everywhere to lift up holy hands in prayer, without anger or disputing."
(1 Timothy 2:8)
Why doe the whole church pray at once for specific needs?
"When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God." (Acts 4:24)
WE STRIVE TO BE A
BIBLICALLY BASED
BIBLICALLY BALANCED
CHURCH
Why do we sing choruses as well as hymns?
"Speak to one another with psalms and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord..." (Ephesians 5:19)
Why are musical instruments a part of the worship service?
"Praise Him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise Him with the harp and lyre, praise Him, praise Him with the tambourine and dancing, praise Him with the strings and flute, praise hime with the clash of cymbal..." (Psalm 150:3-5)
Why do we believe in speaking in unknown tongues and interpretation of tongues?
"And these signs will accompany those who believe...they will speak in new tongues"
(Mark 16:17-18)
"Therefore, my brothers be eager to prohesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues"
(1 Corinthians 14:39)
"I would like every one of you to speak in tongues, but I would rather have you prohesy. He who prophesies is greater than one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may be edified." (1 Corinthians 14:5)
Why do people praise God out Loud?
"I will extol the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be on my lips."
(Psalm 34:1)
Why do we anoint with oil and pray for the sick?
"Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up." (James 5:15)
"And these signs will accompany those who believe...they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well." (Mark 16:17-18)
1) We believe there is but one living and true God, everlasting, of infinite power, wisdom and goodness; Maker and Preserver of all things, both visible and invisible. And in the unity of this Godhead, there are three Persons of one substance of eternal being and equal in holiness, justice, wisdom, power and dignity; the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.
2) We believe that the Son, who is the word of the Father, the very and eternal God, of one substance with the Father, took man's nature in the womb of the blessed virgin; so that two whole and perfect natures, that is to say, the Godhead and the manhood were joined together in one Person, never to be divided, whereof is one Christ, very God and perfect man, who actually suffered, was crucified, dead and buried, to reconcile the Father to us, and to make atonement, not only for our actual guilt, but also for original sin.
3) We believe that Christ did truly rise again from the dead, and took again His body, with all things appertaining to the perfections of man's nature, and ascended into heaven and there sits until He shall return to judge all men at the last day.
4) We believe the Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son, is of one substance, majesty and glory with the Father and the Son, very and eternal God.
5) We believe in the verbal and plenary inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, known as the Bible, composed of sixty-six books and divided into two departments, Old and New Testaments. We believe the Bible is the Word of God, the full and complete revelation of the plan and history of redemption.
6) We believe that eternal life with God in heaven is a portion of the reward of the finally righteous; and that everlasting banishment from the presence of the Lord and unending torture in hell are the wages of the persistently wicked (Matthew 25:46; Psalm 9:17; Revelation 21:7,8) .
7) We believe that Jesus Christ shed his blood for the remission of sins that are past, for the regeneration of penitent sinners, and for slavation from sin and from sinning (Romans 3:25; 1 John 3:5-10; Ephesians 2: 1-10) .
8) We beleive, teach and firmly maintain the scriptural doctrine of justification by faith alone (Romans 5:1) .
9) We believe that Jesus Christ shed His blood for the complete cleansing of the justified believer from all indwelling sin and from its pollution, susequent to regeneration (1 John 1:7-9) .
10) We believe in santification. While santification is initiated in regeneration and consummated in glorification, we believe it includes a definite, instantaneous work of grace achieved by faith subsequent to regeneration (Acts 26:18; 1 John 1:9) . Santification delivers from the power and dominion of sin. It is followed by lifelong growth in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 4:16; 2 Peter 3:18) .
11) We believe that the Pentecostal baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire is obtainable by a definite act of appropriating faith on the part of the fully cleansed believer, and the initial evidence of the reception of this experience is speaking with other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance (Luke 11:13; Acts 1:5; 2:1-4; 8:17; 10:44-46;19:6) .
12) We believe in divine healing as in the atonement (Isaiah 53:4,5; Matthew 8:16,17; Mark 16:14-18; James 5:14-16; Exodus 15:26) .
13) We believe in the imminent, personal, premillennial second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17; Titus 2:13; 2 Peter 3:10-14; Matthew 24: 29-44) , and love and wait for His appearing (2 Timothy 4:8) .
14) We believe it is the responsibility of every believer to dedicate his life to carrying out the work of the Great Commission (Matthew 28: 18-20; Mark 16:15-20; Acts 1:8) .
