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Category: What We Believe

The church is both universal (worldwide) and local, and is a living spiritual body of which Jesus is the head and all believers are members. The local church consists of a group of believers in Jesus Christ who have each been baptized on a credible profession of faith, and are committed to worship, work, and fellowship together. God has entrusted the members of the local church the three great calls: (a) To love God with all our hearts. (b) To love our neighbor as our self. (c) To make disciples of all nations. Ephesians 2:22, “And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by the Spirit.” See also Eph 2:19-21; Acts 1:8; Eph 5:19-21; Acts 2:42; Heb 10:23-25. We believe that it is the duty of all believers to be faithful and fruitful within the local congregation in which they have been planted by the Lord but, insofar as it depends on them, they are to seek to live in peace and brotherhood with all true believers in Christ. We believe that the Father has children in all Christian denominations in all places and that we are to be gatherers rather than scatterers, and in that respect to live in the light of Jesus’ prayer for unity in John 17. John 17:20-21., “I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.”

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