WHAT WE BELIEVE
Our Creed, Discipline, and Doctrine are the Word of God as taught and revealed by the Holy Ghost. (St. John 14:26). “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for Doctrine, reproof, correction, instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.” (II Timothy 3:16, 17) As members of the Body of Christ, which is the true Church (Ephesians 1:22, 23.), the Word of God declares there is one way of entrance, and that is “by one Spirit are we all baptized into one Body” and that is a baptism of “Water and Spirit”. (l Cor. 12:12-27)
GODHEAD
We fully believe the mystery of the Godhead. We believe that Jesus was both human and divine, and further, that the Godhead be understood to mean all of the fullness of God. (Colossians 1:19 and 2:9) We believe that Jesus was Mary’s son and Mary’s God, Creator and creature, God manifest in the flesh; that the flesh of Jesus was the same as ours, with the exception that it had no sin; that Jesus was the Eternal Father made visible, apart from whom there is no God. We believe that at the final consummation of all things there will be only God and that will be our Lord Jesus Christ.
NEW BIRTH
We believe that everyone must be born again to enter into the Kingdom of God. (St. John 3:3, 5) We further believe that the experience of the new birth is that one must be baptized in water in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ by immersion and by baptism of the Holy Spirit (Ghost) with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues as the Spirit of the Lord giveth utterance. All that Jesus accomplished for us at Calvary is summed up in a statement by Jesus Himself after His resurrection: “Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day; and that REPENTANCE AND REMISSION OF SINS should be preached in HIS NAME among ALL NATIONS [not just Jews], beginning at [starting point] Jerusalem”.
At Pentecost, after Peter’s stinging indictment, accusing the nation of Israel of the crucifixion of Christ (Acts 2:22-24), he was asked by those who were guilty “Men and brethren, what shall we do?” Then Peter said unto them “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”, (Acts 2:8)
WATER BAPTISM
Water Baptism was administered “In the name of Jesus Christ”(Acts2:38). This was the name given to our saviour before His birth for the purpose of saving his people from their sins” (Matt. 1:21) ; for there is salvation in “none other name” (Acts 4:12) whereby we must be saved. The Apostles always administered baptism in His Name from the day of Pentecost forward. There is no biblical record of one person ever being baptized, as some believers are today, using the formula “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (St. Matt. 28:19).
The reason why there were no believers so baptized is because the Apostles knew the NAME of the FATHER, the NAME of the SON and the NAME of the HOLY GHOST. It can be seen that there is a single NAME for the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. If the NAME is one, then the person must be one (Zech. 14:9). The one God to His creatures. As this has been said, He is “Father” in His relationship to His Creation; he is “Son” in His redemptive role in saving the human element of His creation; He is “Holy Ghost” in His sanctifying and preserving the indwelt believer, but His name is One-Jesus.
HOLY GHOST
We believe that all full believers” receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, as promised by our Lord, as a witness to their scripturally-based faith in Jesus (St. John 7:37-39); and that the new birth of the Spirit (St. John 3:5) is necessary to place the believer in the Kingdom of God or the body of Christ, “the Church” (I Cor. 12:12, 13). We further believe that outpouring of the Spirit on the day of Pentecost marked a “new era in the Spirit’s dealing with mankind as prophesied by Joel (2:28, 29 and Isa. 28:11). The Holy Ghost is the gift to every believer in this age of grace. The Holy Ghost bears witness that “we are the children of God” (Romans 8:16); it is a witness of the faith of our hearts (Acts 15:7-9). The Holy Ghost does not indwell the believer simply because it comes after believing (Eph. 1:13), NOT synonymous with it. As said before, the Holy Spirit is “the seal of the righteousness of the faith” which the believer has (Romans 4:11) as circumcision and the seal of the righteousness of the faith of Abraham.