The Mission
Love God, Love People, Share Jesus & Make Disciples
“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:28-31
LOVE God
We are to love God with all of our hear, soul, mind, and strength, which is demonstrated by our obeying Him, following His teachings, adhering to His word, and worshiping Him with all of our being.
LOVE PEOPLE
We were created in His image to mirror Him and love all people in the way He first loved us. It’s by our love for others that people will know we are His disciples.
SHARE JESUS
We believe that sharing Jesus is the natural outgrowth of our genuine love for Him. His love has transformed our lives and we have to tell others about it.
MAKE DESICPLES
Discipleship is more than a decision to receive Jesus, it’s about being a follower of Jesus. And we believe that this is best accomplished by living life together so that discipleship is not just taught, but caught.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
GOD
God is the Creator and Ruler of the universe. He is eternally existent in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He was born of a virgin, performed many miraculous signs, lived a sinless human life, and then offered Himself as the perfect sacrifice for the sins of all people by dying on a cross. He arose from the dead after three days to demonstrate His power over sin and death. Then He ascended to Heaven’s glory and will return to earth to reign as King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.
HOLY SPIRIT
All believers receive the Holy Spirit (the Spirit of God) when they receive Jesus Christ as Lord of their lives at salvation. However, believers are also entitled to and should expect and earnestly seek the promise of the Father, the baptism in the Holy Spirit, with the evidence of speaking in tongues according to Acts 2:4. We believe this was the normal experience of Christ followers in the early Christian Church. With the Holy Spirit baptism comes power for life and service.
THE BIBLE
The Bible is God’s authoritative Word to us. It was written by human authors under the supernatural guidance and inspiration of the Holy Spirit. It is the supreme source of truth for Christian beliefs and living. It is the truth without any mixture of error.
SALVATION
Salvation is God’s free gift to us, but we must accept it. We can never make up for our sin by self-improvement or good works. Only by trusting in Jesus Christ as God’s offer of forgiveness can anyone be saved from sin’s penalty. When we repent of sin, confess Jesus as Lord, and turn from our self-ruled life, we are saved.
DIVINE HEALING
All through the centuries since the time of the apostles, there have been individuals who had faith in God for the healing of their bodies, and where New Testament faith has been found, miracles have taken place. We believe Jesus paid the price for divine healing through the atonement…and with His stripes, we are healed.
THE BLESSED HOPE
The blessed hope of the church is the rapture or the “catching away” of the church. The Bible teaches that at the time of the rapture of the church, living Christians will be changed; those whom have died in Christ will be raised in glory; all Christians will forever be with the Lord, and we should be comforted with this truth.
ETERNITY
People were created to exist forever. We will either exist eternally separated from God by sin or eternally with God through forgiveness and salvation. Heaven and Hell are real places of eternal existence.
ORDINANCES
BAPTISMS
Baptism by immersion in water is commanded (Mark 16:16). All who repent and believe in Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior are to be baptized. This act symbolically declares to others that the old sinful life and lifestyle died with Christ at salvation and a new spiritual life has been raised with Christ.
We ask anyone who is interested in getting Baptized here at Hope City to signup and take one of our baptism classes prior.