When you’re wondering if there is anything to hope for...
Hope in the Lord; for with the Lord there is unfailing love. Psalm 130:7
“I know the plans I have for you”, says the Lord. “They are
plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a
hope.”
Jeremiah 29:11
When you feel like giving up...When doubts filled my mind,
your comfort gave the renewed hope and cheer. Psalm 94:19
Bre
thren in Christ. God is calling the Brethren in Christ to reassert the primary
purpose of the Church as developing earnest, lifelong
followers of Jesus Christ. This means that we, in turn, must
actively call one another—seekers and believers alike— to
move forward, to take these next steps in the spiritual life.
1) Follow Jesus
2) Grow in Christ-likeness3) Serve Others
4) Go To All People
Statement of Faith. Hope Community Church accepts the Scriptures as revealed
Will of God, the all sufficient rule of faith and practice, and
for the purpose of maintaining general unity, adopts these
Statements of Fundamental Truths and Doctrine. The Scriptures Inspired
We believe the Bible to be inspired word of God and inerrant in the original
writings, that complete revelation of God's will for man and the final authority for
Christian faith and conduct. (2 Timothy 3:15-17, Matthew 4:4, 1 Peter 1:23-25). The One True Godhead
We believe in one God, the Creator of all things, eternally existing in three
persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who are co-equal and infinitely perfect. The Lord Jesus Christ
We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, God manifested in the flesh, true
God and true man. We believe in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His
miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily
resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal
return in power and glory. Man, His Fall and Redemption
We believe that man was created in the image of God but through sin became lost
and his only hope for salvation is by the New Birth, the regeneration of the Holy
Spirit. The Salvation of Man
(a) We believe that the shed blood of Jesus Christ and his resurrection provide
the only ground for justification and salvation for all those who believe, and only
those who receive Jesus Christ are born of the Holy Spirit, and thus become
children of God. (b) We believe that man's salvation is by grace through faith in
Jesus Christ, not by human works, and is the free gift of God; however, the
believers works will determine his rewards in eternity (Ephesians 2:8-9, Romans
14: 10-12; 2 Corinthians 5:10) (c) We believe the inward evidence to the believer
of his salvation is the direct inward witness of the Holy Spirit with the believer
spirit. The outward evidence to all men as a life of true holiness. (Romans 8:16; 1
John 5:10)
Ordinances
We believe that water baptism and the Lord's supper are to be observed by the
church during this present age This present age. They are not, however, to be
regarded as means of salvation. Your water baptism, the believer is identified
with Jesus Christ in his death, burial, and resurrection to newness of life. (Matthew 28:19; Acts 8:35-38; 10:47-48; 19:3-5; Romans 6:4; 1 Corinthians 11:
23-28)
The Baptism in the Holy Spirit
We believe all those who have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ are entitled to,
and showed it ardently expect and earnestly seek, the promise of the father, the
baptism and the Holy Spirit according to the command of our Lord Jesus Christ. This experience is distinct from an subsequent to the new birth. With it comes
that endowment of spiritual power to be witnesses of the Lord Jesus Christ,
Manifested in public testimony and service to various gifts of the Holy Spirit
which are distributed to believers as he wills.To see The baptism and the Holy
Spirit is evidenced by the initial physical sign of speaking with other tongues as
the Holy Spirit gives the believer utterance. (Matthew 3:11; Luke 24:49; Acts
1:4-8; 2:4, 8:14-17; 10:44-46;, 11:14-16; 15:7-9; 19:1-6 1 Corinthians 12:1-31)
The Church
We believe that the true Church is universally composed of all those who have
believed on the Lord Jesus Christ according to the Scriptures and are united
together in the body of Christ which He is the Head. Only those who are members
of the universal Church, the body of Christ, may be members of the local church. Every local church has the right and responsibility under Christ to decide and
govern its own affairs. Divine Healing
We believe that divine healing for the ills of the physical body is available through
faith in the atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ. (Isaiah 53:4-5; Matthew 8:17;
1 Peter 2:24; 3 John 2)
The Blessed Hope
We believe that out Lord Jesus Christ is coming again to gather His saints to
Heaven and that this “Blessed Hope has a vital bearing on the personal life and
service of the believer. (1 Corinthians 15:51-52; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17; 2
Thessalonians 2:1)
Millennial Reign
We believe that our Lord Jesus Christ will return with His Saints from Heaven to
rule and reign for one thousand years on the earth, after which the New Heaven
and New Earth will be established. (Revelation 19;11-16; 20:1-7; 21:1)
Resurrection
We believe in the bodilyresurrection of the dead, both the believer and the
unbeliever; of the believer to everlasting blessedness and join the presence of the
Lord, of the unbeliever to judgement and everlasting conscious punishment in
the Lake of Fire.
