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Doctrine (what we believe) |
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We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. We believe the Bible (Old and New Testaments) to be the inspired and only infallible, authoritative Word of God. We believe the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ in His virgin birth, perfect humanity, 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. We believe, because of the grace of God the Father, and the atoning death of Christ our Saviour and Lord, and the convicting and wooing work of the Holy Spirit, that sinful unregenerate man can be saved, redeemed, justified with God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe it is the will of God that each believer should be sanctified by faith through the identification with Jesus Christ in His death and resurrection, and through the agency of the Holy Spirit be separated from the world and sin and fully consecrated to the will of God, thereby receiving power for holy living and effective service. We believe in that blessed hope, the return of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, each in his order and the saints into the resurrection of eternal life. We believe that the Scriptures clearly teach that all believers should manifest lives of faith and whole-hearted consecration to Christ and His Gospel, giving themselves to prayer and intercession and especially fulfil the Great Commission, going into the world as witnesses of the Gospel to every nation. This commission, we believe, is the sole business of the church, making no worldly alliances, which may affect its progress. We be lieve that the power of God is sufficient to meet every need arising out of service to Him, according to His will.
Alon Comment on Israel:
We believe in God's ultimate destiny with the Nation of Israel and we pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Psalm 122:6), that this city will become “a praise in all the earth” (Isaiah 62:7). We do not embrace "Replacement Theology": this teaching removes from the Jewish nation any national future and stresses that the church has replaced Israel and has inherited all the blessings promised her. In Romans 9-11 particularly, Paul refutes this error and says just the opposite. Replacement theology has made a major contribution to the evil of anti-Semitism over the centuries of history. We seek to join our prayers with His prophetic word given in the Old and New Covenant, regarding God's restoration plan for Israel and salvation for Israel. We are committed to the biblical picture regarding God's plan for Israel. Israel has a future that our God has secured in his Holy Bible. The entire period, from pre-1948 to the present, is nothing but a miracle of the divine providence as age old prophecies have been fulfilled in the face of impossible hostility. The miracle continues…In these messianic days in which we live, God has a prophetic plan that is being fulfilled right before our eyes. In this plan we can see clearly that His hand is upon His people and the nation of Israel and also upon His church. Both share in God’s end-time destiny and plan and may suffer at the hands of those who are opposed to the plans of God. We believe that Jerusalem will become the "Bone of Contention" for the whole world and all nations will come against the city to destroy it and the Jewish state (Zechariah 12:1-3). That in the end Israel will be redeemed and will triumph over all her enemies, welcoming her Messiah and ushering in for the world, a time of unparalleled world peace and blessing (Zechariah 12:10-14; Isaiah 2:1-4; Isaiah 11:6-10). |