Pastored by: John Thomas
Service Times:
Sunday 10:30, Wednesday 7:00
301 Wilder Rd. The Portal Church Fellowship Statement of Faith
We Believe the Bible to be the inspired, inerrant, authoritative Word of God. (2Tim3:16-17:1Thess 2:13:2 Peter 1:21)
We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. (Deut 6:4; Is 43:10; Matt 28:19; Luke
3:22)
We believe in the full deity and full humanity of Christ, in His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His atoning death, His bodily resurrection, and His ascension into heaven where He sits at the right hand of God the Father ruling until His personal return in power and glory. (Matt 1:23; Luke 1:35; Acts 2:32-36; Rom 1:4; Phil 2:9-11)
We believe that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God and are in need of salvation through Jesus Christ. Through confession of sins, belief in Jesus atoning death on our behalf and confessing Him as Savior and Lord, one is saved, forgiven and redeemed by Christ precious blood to right relationship with God. (Gen1:26- 2:17 -3:6; Rms 5:12-19; Luke 24:47; John3:3; Rom:Ch16, Ch10:13-15; Eph 2:8; Titus 2:11-12,3:5-7; Eph 4:24;)
We believe in the baptism in the Holy Spirit and the indwelling ministry of the Holy Spirit in the truly born again Christian, enabling them to live a godly life. And we also believe in the full operation of the gifts of the Spirit operating in the church today. ( Matt 3:11; Mark 1:7-8; Luke 3:16; John 1:26; Acts 1:4-8; Acts2:4; Acts20:44-46; Acts 11:15-17; Acts15:7-9; Acts 19:6)
We believe that the Five Fold Ministry should be operating inside the church. (Eph 4:11)
We believe in the resurrection of the dead, of the saved unto the resurrection of life and the lost unto eternal damnation. (John 5:28-29)
We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ, all are equal in Him level at the foot of the cross. (Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 12:12-13; Galatians 3:26-28; Acts 10:34)
We believe that God wonderfully and indisputably creates each person as male or female. These two distinct, complementary genders together reflect the image and nature of God; We believe the term “marriage” has only one meaning: the uniting of one man and one woman in a single, exclusively as set down in Scripture; We believe that God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman who are married to each other and that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman
(Gen 2:24; Matt 19:5; Ex 20:14; Lev18:22-23; 20:13; Matt 15:19)
We believe in the ordinances of the Church: Baptism in Water & Holy Communion
(Matt 28:19; Mark 16:16; Acts 10:47-48; Rms. 6:4; - Matt 26:14-30; Mark 14:17-26; Luke 22:14-30
1 Cor 11:22-34)
We believe in Immediate and Progressive Sanctification (Rms 12:1-2; 1 Thess 5:23; Heb 12:14; 1Peter1:15-16)
